Kristin Kobes Du Mez

Kristin Kobes Du Mez is a professor of History and Gender Studies at Calvin University. Her book Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation, has just been published with W.W Norton’s Liveright Publishing. Her work has appeared in the Washington Post, Daily Beast, Religion News Service, Christianity Today, and Christian Century.

(A)theologies, Archive, Culture, OMFG, Politics/Law, Sex/Gender/JusticeFebruary 22, 2021

No, Rush Limbaugh Did Not Hijack Your Parents’ Christianity

By Kristin Kobes Du Mez

We’ve all heard the stories, and some of us have seen it with our own…

Archive, OMFG, Politics/Law, Sex/Gender/JusticeOctober 5, 2020

Are Evangelicals Sweetness and Light or Enablers of Cruelty and Racism? Gender Roles Hint at an Answer

By Kristin Kobes Du Mez

Have white evangelicals been unfairly demonized by scholars and pundits alike in the run-up to…

Archive, OMFG, Politics/LawJuly 9, 2020

Will Trump’s Weakness Threaten White Evangelical Support?

By Kristin Kobes Du Mez

White evangelicals were critical to the election of Donald Trump in 2016, and over the…

Kristin Kobes Du Mez

No, Rush Limbaugh Did Not Hijack Your Parents’ Christianity

Are Evangelicals Sweetness and Light or Enablers of Cruelty and Racism? Gender Roles Hint at an Answer

Will Trump’s Weakness Threaten White Evangelical Support?

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