![]() ![]() 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 OverviewÄu 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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