Christian Thought Archives - Kristin Kobes Du Mez

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Articles & Essays Christian Thought Purity Culture

Simple Truth: Sex Abuse, the Amish, and the Evangelicals

Last week, journalist Sarah McClure published an investigative report in Cosmopolitan—yes, Cosmopolitan—on the prevalence of sexual abuse among the Amish. Based on a year-long investigation, the report contains disturbing details that are difficult to stomach; I’d call it shocking if we didn’t already have…

Kristin Kobes Du MezJanuary 23, 2020

Articles & Essays Christian Feminists Christian Thought Christian Women Featured

Hey, John MacArthur. You have a Culture. It’s Called White (Christian) Patriarchy.

The tricky thing about cultures, though—cultural systems, cultural values, however you want to put it—is that they’re largely invisible to us when we’re inside those cultures. When you’re comfortably ensconced within a culture, it’s really hard to see your culture…

Kristin Kobes Du MezOctober 24, 2019

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American Evangelicalism Articles & Essays Christian Feminists Christian Thought

Rachel Held Evans, Beth Moore, and the Power of Evangelical Coalitions

As news spread of Rachel Held Evans’s death, one quote continued to pop up in my social media feed, a quote from her book Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church: But the gospel doesn’t need a coalition…

Kristin Kobes Du MezMay 21, 2019

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American Evangelicalism Articles & Essays Christian Thought

Pete Buttigieg and The Politics of American Greatness

The task ahead of Buttigieg will be to fashion the perfect jeremiad for this historical moment—a call to national repentance and renewal, but one that appeals to myths of American greatness. Clinton tried and ultimately failed to do so. But…

Kristin Kobes Du MezApril 18, 2019

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American Evangelicalism Christian Thought In the Media

“Evangelicals helped get Trump into the White House. Pete Buttigieg believes the religious left will get him out.”

Interviewed by Sarah Pulliam Bailey, The Washington Post. 29 March 2019.

Kristin Kobes Du MezMarch 29, 2019

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Articles & Essays Christian Thought Sexual Abuse & #MeToo

Why it’s so hard for the SBC to do the right thing.

If you've been following developments in the SBC in response to the Houston Chronicle's devastating investigation into sex abuse in the denomination, you may have seen SBC president J. D. Greear respond with contrition and issue an action plan that…

Kristin Kobes Du MezFebruary 27, 2019

American Evangelicalism Articles & Essays Christian Thought In the Media

There are No Real Evangelicals. Only Imagined Ones.

Kristin Kobes Du Mez. Published at Religion News Service, February 6, 2019. (RNS) — Not long ago, Baylor historian Thomas Kidd published a short post at The Gospel Coalition blog on the anniversary of Phillis Wheatley’s death. He titled his piece “Phillis Wheatley: An…

Kristin Kobes Du MezFebruary 6, 2019

Articles & Essays Christian Thought Work & Family

Burdens in Disguise: The Spiritual Magic of Tidying Up

Marie Kondo almost lost me at the socks. And that was before I’d even started. But I decided to give the folding a try. And I was sold. So I tackled my closet. And then my kitchen. And then, yes,…

Kristin Kobes Du MezJanuary 11, 2019

American Evangelicalism Christian Thought In the Media

“How Best to Define Evangelical? There are ‘Many Evangelicalisms,’ Historian Says”

Paper "Race, Gender, and the 81 Percent: Defining Evangelicalism and What’s at Stake" cited by Michael Gryboski in The Christian Post. Published January 8, 2019. Complete audio of speech given at American Historical Association, January 5, 2019. Summary from Article: There are "many evangelicalisms" and people…

Kristin Kobes Du MezJanuary 8, 2019

Articles & Essays Christian Thought Culture Featured

The Mysterious Project of Putting Christ Back in Christmas

This Christmas, it is worth reflecting on what has been lost in the prevailing tendency to creep along the ground of certainty. Perhaps in defending smaller truths, the larger truth has become more difficult to grasp.

Kristin Kobes Du MezDecember 25, 2018

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