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Tish Warren, Jen Hatmaker, and the “Crisis” of the Female Christian Blogosphere in Historical Perspective image of coffee cup and notebook with penAmerican EvangelicalismArticles & EssaysChristian ThoughtChristian Women

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 Mez
August 31, 2017
Can Hillary Clinton’s Faith Help Her Lead a Fractured Nation? Articles & EssaysChristian ThoughtHillary Clinton

Can Hillary Clinton’s Faith Help Her Lead a Fractured Nation?

First Published: Religion & Politics. July 25, 2016. https://religionandpolitics.org/2016/07/25/can-clintons-faith-help-her-lead-a-fractured-nation/ Last month, at a closed meeting with evangelical leaders, Donald Trump asserted his Christian bona fides. He boasted of his child-rearing practices, touted the virtues of Sunday School, identified religious liberty as “the…
Kristin Kobes Du Mez
July 21, 2016
The Crime is the Fruit of the Theology: Christian Responses to “50 Shades of Grey” image of 50 shades of grey film logoArticles & EssaysChristian ThoughtSexual Abuse & #MeToo

The Crime is the Fruit of the Theology: Christian Responses to “50 Shades of Grey”

The much anticipated Valentine’s Day release 50 Shades of Grey set off a flurry of activity on social media sites, with bloggers lining up to cajole, shame, reason, or plead with women to resist temptation and abstain from viewing the film. In…
Kristin Kobes Du Mez
March 15, 2015