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“Why Evangelical Women Leaders Don’t Talk about Politics” American EvangelicalismChristian WomenIn the Media

“Why Evangelical Women Leaders Don’t Talk about Politics”

Interviewed by Katelyn Beaty for Religion & Politics essay, published December 19, 2017. Excerpts: That particular box is winsome—leading from nonthreatening gentleness and warmth rather than direct authority. “Many evangelical women have built their platforms based on an illusion of intimacy,” says…
Kristin Kobes Du Mez
December 17, 2017
My Brother’s Keeper: George McGovern and Progressive Christianity. By Mark A. Lempke image of the journal of church and stateAmerican EvangelicalismBook Chapters & JournalsChristian Scholarship

My Brother’s Keeper: George McGovern and Progressive Christianity. By Mark A. Lempke

Excerpt: Long overshadowed by historians’ preoccupation with the influence conservative evangelicals have wielded on the national stage, the scholarship on progressive faith traditions is now coming into its own. Alongside works like David R. Swartz’s Moral Minority and Jill K. Gill’s Embattled…
Kristin Kobes Du Mez
December 11, 2017
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