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Articles & Essays Christian Women Sexual Abuse & #MeToo

Please Stop Talking About “The Mother of All Bombs”

Last Thursday the United States military dropped a bomb on ISIS targets in eastern Afghanistan. Not just any bomb: the largest non-nuclear bomb in America’s arsenal, the 21,000-pound GBU-43/B, also known as the MOAB—a Massive Ordinance Air Blast. Apparently also…

Kristin Kobes Du MezApril 20, 2017

Articles & Essays Christian Thought Christian Women

Is Complementarian Theology Abusive to Women?

As you may have heard, Princeton Seminary decided to award Tim Keller the prestigious Kuyper Prize for Excellence in Reformed Theology and Public Witness. But then it revoked that honor after an outcry from faculty, students, and alumni who objected to Keller’s…

Kristin Kobes Du MezApril 6, 2017

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Articles & Essays Christian Scholarship Culture

A Golden Age for Christian Colleges?

Are Christian colleges uniquely positioned to revitalize our nation’s intellectual life and contribute to cultural bridge-building in this era of political and social polarization? If you ask Christian scholars, this would seem to be the case. In Inside Higher Ed, Tal…

Kristin Kobes Du MezMarch 23, 2017

Articles & Essays Christian Feminists Work & Family

What if this had been Me? A Gendered Analysis of the Funniest Video Ever

By now, I’m sure you’ve all seen this video. If you haven’t, here you go. You’re welcome. I could write about all the reasons I find this video so absurdly funny, but instead I suggest you read Jonny Cooper’s “Anatomy…

Kristin Kobes Du MezMarch 11, 2017

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American Evangelicalism Articles & Essays Christian Scholarship

Still Searching for Christian America

“At times of crisis it is a natural human reaction to turn to the past for support.” These words were written by evangelicals, to evangelicals. In 1983. Wait—1983? But Ronald Reagan was president at the time. What could possibly have…

Kristin Kobes Du MezFebruary 23, 2017

Articles & Essays Donald Trump

Donald Trump and Militant Evangelical Masculinity: Religion & Politics

The truth is, many evangelicals long ago replaced the suffering servant of Christ with an image that more closely resembles Donald Trump than many would care to admit. They’ve traded a faith that privileges humility and elevates the least of…

Kristin Kobes Du MezJanuary 17, 2017

Articles & Essays Church History Spirituality

Fear No Evil: Christian Witness in a Time of Darkness

At a time when some fear the dissolution of democratic institutions and civic norms, and the possible erosion of basic rights and protections, what if Christians across the political spectrum fearlessly commit to doing justice and loving kindness, without regard…

Kristin Kobes Du MezDecember 29, 2016

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Articles & Essays Hillary Clinton

Hillary Clinton’s Spiritual Stamina

As the reality of Hillary Clinton’s unexpected defeat sinks in, as pundits jockey to offer the definitive postmortem and journalists attempt to decipher what, precisely, an impending Trump presidency might entail, public focus has largely shifted away from Clinton herself.…

Kristin Kobes Du MezNovember 17, 2016

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Articles & Essays Christian Women Purity Culture

The Problem with Protecting our Wives and Daughters

Don’t get me wrong. I’m glad many evangelicals are lining up to condemn Trump’s vulgar behavior, revealed most recently (and incontrovertibly) in the appalling video tape released by the Washington Post last Friday. Jerry Falwell Jr., a staunch Trump supporter, had this to…

Kristin Kobes Du MezOctober 30, 2016

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Articles & Essays Christian Feminists Christian Women Church History

An Open Letter to the ESV Translation Committee

I’m not a biblical translator, or even a biblical scholar. I’m a historian. As a historian, I was intrigued when I heard the news that “the Permanent Text of the ESV Bible” had been released. (The English Standard Version, for…

Kristin Kobes Du MezSeptember 22, 2016

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