Kristin Kobes Du Mez

Excerpts: While much has been reported and written about the disenfranchisement of working-class America and white “fly-over country,” Ms. Du Mez digs deeper into the evolution (no pun intended) of the white, masculine, American-branded faith that most of the rest…

Excerpts: Du Mez’s brilliant and engaging Jesus and John Wayne traces how evangelicals used their power to protect patriarchy over the last few generations.Matthew Avery Sutton, The New Republic Trump’s victory, she writes, was “the culmination of evangelicals’ embrace of militant masculinity,…

Screencapture, Christ and Pop Culture, July 13, 2020 Excerpts: Du Mez keeps company with Christians who ask why Donald Trump speaks at their alma maters, screams through their parents’ television sets, and steals the allegiance of their pastors. Rather than…