RaveThe New RepublicGripping and unnerving ... Du Mez brings both the personal experience and the research and writing skills that the job requires ... Having exposed in her earlier work the misogyny and abuse that have corrupted American evangelicalism in recent decades, and which set the stage for Christian nationalism, she knows very well that the reaction to this book, in many quarters, will be unpleasant, not to say dangerous. She does not lack courage.