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Book Chapters & Journals Christian Thought Sexual Abuse & #MeToo

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 Christian Thought Sexual Abuse & #MeToo

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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Christian Feminists Christian 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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Articles & Essays Christian Women Sexual Abuse & #MeToo

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 Spirituality

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 Christian Women Sexual Abuse & #MeToo

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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Articles & Essays Christian Feminists

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

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Articles & Essays Christian Feminists Work & Family

Gender, Family, And Productive Labor: A (Very) Brief History

In the end, history doesn’t offer clear answers when it comes to addressing issues of gender, family, and labor. But a knowledge of history and its complexities can help us ask better questions.

Kristin Kobes Du MezJuly 24, 2017

Articles & Essays Christian Feminists Culture

10 Things Christians Get Wrong About Feminism

1. “Christian feminism” is an oxymoron…and “secular feminism” is a tautology. Yes, there are certainly “secular feminists,” and there are some who are downright hostile to Christianity. But to consider Christianity and feminism as mutually exclusive obscures a long and…

Kristin Kobes Du MezMay 18, 2017

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

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