Confronting Doug Wilson

And how we got here

Why do you have so much on this Doug Wilson guy? I’ve never heard of him before, and he’s not that important.

That’s the gist of the feedback I got from a fellow historian of religion after he’d read my near-final draft of Jesus and John Wayne.

The insinuation here, I think, was that I was “nut-picking.” Picking the weirdos, giving them air time in order…