Summer All-Church Book Read!

This summer, all members and friends of Westminster are invited to join in reading Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation, by Kristin Kobes Du Mez. Published in 2020, Jesus and John Wayne “presents a seventy-five-year history of evangelicalism that identifies the forces that have turned Donald Trump into a hero of the Religious Right.” 

Many of you participated in our January/February discussion group “Understanding Christian Nationalism,” which centered around three Diana Butler Bass essays on the subject. As we wrapped up the series, many participants expressed their desire to continue both the conversation and exploration of this particular ‘brand’ of Christianity. 

You can find a copy of Jesus and John Wayne at the Santa Fe Public Library, in any number of local bookstores, as an e-book, or as an audio book. We’ll gather twice a month beginning in June (on the second and fourth Sundays) before worship for conversation and discussion about what we are reading. There’s no particular reading schedule, though a suggested schedule would be one-third of the book each month, June through August.