Religion & Politics Archives - Kristin Kobes Du Mez

American Evangelicalism Featured In the Media Interviews & Podcasts

Interview: NPR, Consider This, “The Road to Overturning Roe v. Wade,” with Michel Martin

Earlier this week, a leaked draft opinion from the Supreme Court suggested that after nearly 50 years, the court intends to overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that legalized abortion nationwide. Almost as soon as abortions became legal, opponents…

Kristin Kobes Du MezMay 7, 2022

American Evangelicalism Featured In the Media Interviews & Podcasts

Interview: PBS, Amanpour & Co, “Kristin Du Mez: How Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith,” with Michel Martin

The likely demise of Roe v. Wade has galvanized America’s evangelicals. Who exactly are they? And how do they influence politics? Kristin Du Mez is a professor at Calvin University and a historian of American Christianity. Her book "Jesus and…

Kristin Kobes Du MezMay 5, 2022

American Evangelicalism Featured In the Media Interviews & Podcasts

Interview: NPR, Morning Edition, “Sen. Josh Hawley Claims Masculinity is Under Attack. This Historian Disagrees,” with Steve Inskeep

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to history professor Kristin Kobes Du Mez about her new Josh Hawley's claim that masculinity is under attack. For a complete transcript and to listen to the interview, visit Sen. Josh Hawley claims without evidence that…

Kristin Kobes Du MezNovember 11, 2021

American Evangelicalism Featured In the Media Interviews & Podcasts

Interview: The NPR Politics Podcast, “For White Evangelicals, The Identity is About More Than Religious Faith,” with Danielle Kurtzleben

In the latest installment of the Politics Podcast book club, NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben interviews Calvin University historian Kristin Kobes Du Mez about Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation. For the complete episode…

Kristin Kobes Du MezOctober 2, 2021

American Evangelicalism Articles & Essays Featured

Braveheart’s Warped History Keeps Suckering Evangelicals

The Daily Beast. June 20, 2021. https://www.thedailybeast.com/bravehearts-warped-history-has-been-suckering-evangelicals-for-a-quarter-century Mel Gibson’s sadomasochistic fantasy is beloved by evangelical Christians (and William Wallace wannabes like Ted Cruz), who wallow in its exaltation of violent, macho religion.

Kristin Kobes Du MezJune 20, 2021

American Evangelicalism Articles & Essays Church History Featured

What We Believe About History

Excerpts: Beliefs have a history. As a historian of religion, I take this for granted. I’d forgotten how foreign this notion is to many evangelicals in the United States. Evangelicals are not alone in considering that their beliefs are eternal…

Kristin Kobes Du MezMay 27, 2021

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American Evangelicalism Articles & Essays Church History Spirituality

#LeaveLOUD and the Evangelical Reckoning

Earlier this month, Jemar Tisby shared his story of leaving white evangelical spaces with the hastag #LeaveLOUD on his Pass the Mic podcast, the first in a series of episodes where Black Christians go public with their exit stories. Tisby is not…

Kristin Kobes Du MezMarch 18, 2021

American Evangelicalism Articles & Essays

Discipline and Punish: A Guide to Power in American Evangelicalism

“Are you going rogue?” The question startled me. It had come from a professor at another Christian university, someone I hadn’t met before. This was in the months before Jesus and John Wayne published, but she was responding to some of my…

Kristin Kobes Du MezFebruary 18, 2021

American Evangelicalism Articles & Essays Christian Thought Featured In the Media

Five Myths about Evangelicals

Excerpts: Myth No. 1: Evangelical beliefs come strictly from the Bible But evangelicals’ beliefs are often molded by political and cultural allegiances, not just biblical texts. Political scientist Michele Margolis has demonstrated that politics can shape religious choices, just as religious belief…

Kristin Kobes Du MezJanuary 22, 2021

American Evangelicalism Articles & Essays Book Reviews

Jemar Tisby’s How to Fight Racism

Jemar Tisby has a new book out this week, How to Fight Racism. Is it any good? First, some personal history. I first met Jemar Tisby at an academic conference, long enough ago that I can’t even remember which one. By…

Kristin Kobes Du MezJanuary 7, 2021

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