Jesus and John Wayne isn’t about the cowboy icon, not really. Jesus and John Wayne is history as confession, history as lament, a type of history that hopes in a God who never puts us to shame, even as hope in America does. Prospective disciples need not apply-this Jesus is forming a posse. Showing no interest in turning the other cheek, he leaves a red right-hand print across his enemy’s face. A ten-foot-tall Jesus who swaggers through every scene, speaking softly and carrying hot steel. In a new book, historian Kristin Kobes Du Mez contends that, over the last 100 years, most white evangelicals would cast a John Wayne type. Sifting risks and rewards, you might pluck your savior from the ranks of the unknown, a face audiences don’t recognize, without form or majesty.
Someone like Oscar Isaac, brimming with hangdog charisma? No doubt Adam Driver could navigate the many moods of Jesus-from holy sarcasm to matchless compassion-in a few easy moves.
If, tomorrow, Hollywood handed you the keys to a major motion picture about the life of Jesus, who would you cast as the lead?
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