If you spent much time in the Southern Baptist Convention then you will see familiar names like Al Mohler, Paige Patterson, Robert Jeffress, and Russell Moore. If you have spent much time in conservative evangelical spheres you will also recognize names like Jerry Falwell (founder of Liberty University and the Moral Majority), John MacArthur (Grace To You), John Piper (Desiring God), Mark Driscoll (Mars Hill), John Eldregde ( Wild at Heart), Wayne Grudem ( Systematic Theology), Ted Haggard (former president of the National Association of Evangelicals), Tim and Beverly LaHaye (Think “Left Behind”), and James Dobson (Focus on the Family). In between we meet familiar characters from our culture at large like Teddy Roosevelt, Billy Graham, Ronald Reagan, John Wayne (obviously), and Barack Obama.
An Overviewĭu Mez offers a sweeping and fast-paced narrative starting from the end of the Victorian era in American and ending with the COVID era. However, if you were, like me, raised in the conservative evangelical movement and have had to personally reckon with your experiences, then this books sheds a lot of light and connects a lot of dots. Do not come to this book expecting a way forward to be presented.
As an historian she is primarily presenting facts, not theology. Kristen Kobes Du Mez is a professor of history at Calvin University and as such the book she has written does not offer solutions on the problems she brings to light. As someone who grew up both in the Independent Fundamental Baptist (IFB) movement and the homeschool movement, this book told the story of my life.
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