Christianity & Feminism Archives - Kristin Kobes Du Mez

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Women Saw #MeToo Coming 100 Years Ago. When Will We Listen?

Thrilled to have contributed an essay to this collection on evangelicalism’s engagement with women, gender, sexuality, and abuse. CBE will be distributing it to all participants at this year’s gathering of the Evangelical Theological Society—a group not generally known for…

Kristin Kobes Du MezNovember 17, 2018

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Articles & Essays Sexual Abuse

Evangelicals, Let’s Talk About Violence Against Women

So, it turns out close to half of all white evangelicals think Brett Kavanaugh should be confirmed even if Christine Blasey Ford’s allegations of sexual assault are true. (An NPR/PBS NewHour/Marist poll conducted last week, 48% of white evangelical Christians believed he should be…

Kristin Kobes Du MezOctober 4, 2018

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Articles & Essays Women & Gender

Women Saw #MeToo Coming 100 Years Ago. When Will We Listen?

In 2018, the #MeToo movement came to American Protestantism. Emboldened with the hope that they will no longer be silenced, women are speaking out to expose the misogyny and abuse they’ve long endured in Christian homes, churches, and seminaries. A…

Kristin Kobes Du MezJuly 27, 2018

Book Reviews Women & Gender

Biblical Porn: Mark Driscoll’s Evangelical Empire – an interview with author Jessica Johnson

Feminist anthropologist Jessica Johnson has just published a fascinating study, Biblical Porn: Affect, Labor, and Pastor Mark Driscoll’s Evangelical Empire, with Duke University Press. She joins us today to discuss her timely new book. KDM: What led you to decide…

Kristin Kobes Du MezJuly 12, 2018

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A New Gospel for Women Interviews & Podcasts

A New Gospel for Women: Christian Humanist Profiles, Episode 136

Interview by Victoria Reynolds Farmer of Christian Humanist. Farmer interviews Dr. Kristin DuMez about her 2015 book, A New Gospel for Women: Katherine Bushnell and the Challenge of Christian Feminism (Oxford University Press). Farmer and Du Mez discuss the life and…

Kristin Kobes Du MezMay 21, 2018

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A New Gospel for Women Book Reviews

History and the Human Condition: Reflections on Kate Bowler’s Everything Happens for a Reason

I remember the day a couple years back when my Facebook feed was suddenly overtaken with grief. Kate Bowler, the preeminent historian of the prosperity gospel, but more importantly beloved friend to so many in my circle of religious historians,…

Kristin Kobes Du MezFebruary 22, 2018

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Articles & Essays Sexual Abuse

Forgiveness or Hypocrisy? Evangelicals, Abuse, and the Witness of Rachael Denhollander

Access Hollywood. Roy Moore. Stormy Daniels. The cast of characters may shift from one scandal to the next, but evangelical Christians have remained remarkably consistent in their response to the sexual scandal du jour. Although evangelicals have not generally earned…

Kristin Kobes Du MezFebruary 8, 2018

Articles & Essays Purity Culture

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

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Articles & Essays Women & Gender

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

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A New Gospel for Women Articles & Essays

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

Christianity & Feminism

Women Saw #MeToo Coming 100 Years Ago. When Will We Listen?

Evangelicals, Let’s Talk About Violence Against Women

Women Saw #MeToo Coming 100 Years Ago. When Will We Listen?

Biblical Porn: Mark Driscoll’s Evangelical Empire – an interview with author Jessica Johnson

A New Gospel for Women: Christian Humanist Profiles, Episode 136

History and the Human Condition: Reflections on Kate Bowler’s Everything Happens for a Reason

Forgiveness or Hypocrisy? Evangelicals, Abuse, and the Witness of Rachael Denhollander

American Christianity Needs More Sin

Me Too. And Why This is a Christian Problem

Race Hatred, the Crime of the Age, and the Impotency of Christianity

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