Following up on her immediate classic Jesus and John Wayne, Du Mez here traces the path of New Thought into modern evangelical white Christian womanhood. From Aimee Semple Macpherson to Elisabeth Eliot to Beth Moore and Jen Hatmaker, Live Laugh Love examines the disconnect between the teaching of prosperity through positive thought and submission and the reality of the lives even of the women doing the teaching.

I’ve been around and very cognizant of the events of the last few chapters, but the thread from the turn of the 20th century was quite enlightening.