John W. Vest is the associate pastor for youth ministry at Fourth Presbyterian Church in Chicago and a Ph.D student in Biblical Studies at the University of Chicago Divinity School. Vest wrote “When a Hero Dies,” a June 2007 essay from Sightings, the online journal maintained by The Martin Marty Center at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago. In the essay, Vest discusses the death of the Marvel Comics hero Captain America and the role of superheroes in America’s civil religion.
| Website | http://johnvest.com/ |
| Email address | jvest@fourthchurch.org |
| Phone number | 312-981-4037 |
| Categories | Arts, Clergy, education, Media, Society & culture |
| Locations | Illinois, United States of America |
| Resource Types | Sources |
| Faiths | Christianity, Presbyterianism |
| Languages | English |