ROI 250: Dr. Kristin Du Mez, Evangelical Masculinity and the Rise of Donald Trump 
Radio interview with KALA Radio, 88.5 FM, at St. Ambrose University, Davenport, Iowa.
Kristin Kobes Du MezDecember 15, 2017
My Brother’s Keeper: George McGovern and Progressive Christianity. By Mark A. Lempke 
Excerpt: Long overshadowed by historians’ preoccupation with the influence conservative evangelicals have wielded on the national stage, the scholarship on progressive faith traditions is now coming into its own. Alongside works like David R. Swartz’s Moral Minority and Jill K. Gill’s Embattled…
Kristin Kobes Du MezDecember 11, 2017
Understanding White Evangelical Views on Immigration 
Summary: Complete video from the panel discussion at “Symposium on Religious Literacy and Government: Refugee and Immigration Issues,” sponsored by the Religious Literacy and the Professions Initiative, held at Harvard Divinity School on December 7–8, 2017. Additional resources and full video…
Kristin Kobes Du MezDecember 8, 2017
Evangelicals for Roy Moore–No Matter What: CBC Radio, Day 6, Episode 364 
Interview by Brent Bambury for CBC Radio, Day 6, Episode 364, "Evangelicals for Roy Moore, Battlefront II outage, Grace Mugabe, Puerto Rico's Power Grid & More." Kristin Kobes Du Mez and Bambury discuss recent American political events in the segment "Why Some…
Kristin Kobes Du MezNovember 17, 2017
Christian Scholarship, For Such a Time as This 
I’ve got to be honest. There was a time, not long ago, when I had become weary of conversations about “Christian scholarship.” These conversations, it seemed to me, had become stale, and sometimes took the place of actually doing scholarship,…
Kristin Kobes Du MezNovember 16, 2017
American Christianity Needs More Sin 
Sola gratia. By grace alone. With the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, Protestants around the world have been revisiting this revolutionary concept. And rightly so. But with the festivities behind us, let’s set grace aside for a moment, and focus on…
Kristin Kobes Du MezNovember 2, 2017
Me Too. And Why This is a Christian Problem 
“Me too.” I first saw these words on a friend’s Facebook post, a friend who only recently went through a grueling process to hold her workplace sexual harasser accountable. Prompted by the campaign inspired by activist Tarana Burke, she posted it along…
Kristin Kobes Du MezOctober 19, 2017
Race Hatred, the Crime of the Age, and the Impotency of Christianity 
This blog post is a condensed excerpt from A New Gospel for Women: Katharine Bushnell and the Challenge of Christian Feminism (OUP 2015), pp. 75-78. It was the morning of October 16, 1893. The day dawned bright and frosty, and excitement was…
Kristin Kobes Du MezOctober 5, 2017
Tish Warren, Jen Hatmaker, and the “Crisis” of the Female Christian Blogosphere in Historical Perspective 
As a historian of American Christianity, I have followed with great interest the conversation Tish Harrison Warren began earlier this spring at Christianity Today’s #AmplifyWomen series. In an essay titled “Who’s In Charge of the Christian Blogosphere?,” Warren identified “a new crisis…
Kristin Kobes Du MezAugust 31, 2017
