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Is Media Coverage Biased Against Evangelicals in the Midst of the Coronavirus? American EvangelicalismArticles & EssaysCulture

Is Media Coverage Biased Against Evangelicals in the Midst of the Coronavirus?

How should we talk about white evangelicals during the coronavirus pandemic? On the one hand, there’s been no shortage of critical editorials highlighting the relatively small number of evangelical churches that have refused to comply with public health recommendations and…
Kristin Kobes Du Mez
May 14, 2020
Some Evangelicals deny the Coronavirus Threat. It’s because they Love Tough Guys. image of logo of the washington postAmerican EvangelicalismArticles & EssaysChurch History

Some Evangelicals deny the Coronavirus Threat. It’s because they Love Tough Guys.

The Washington Post. "Some Evangelicals deny the Coronavirus Threat. It’s because they Love Tough Guys." Perspective. April 2, 2020. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/04/02/conservative-evangelicals-coronavirus-tough-guys/ Excerpts: To be a man was to take risks, to eschew political correctness, to be, according to author and chaplain John McDougall,…
Kristin Kobes Du Mez
April 2, 2020
Simple Truth: Sex Abuse, the Amish, and the Evangelicals image of people gathered in a field dressed in clothes associated with Amish communitiesArticles & EssaysChristian ThoughtPurity Culture

Simple Truth: Sex Abuse, the Amish, and the Evangelicals

Last week, journalist Sarah McClure published an investigative report in Cosmopolitan—yes, Cosmopolitan—on the prevalence of sexual abuse among the Amish. Based on a year-long investigation, the report contains disturbing details that are difficult to stomach; I’d call it shocking if we didn’t already have…
Kristin Kobes Du Mez
January 23, 2020
Hey, John MacArthur. You have a Culture. It’s Called White (Christian) Patriarchy. image of two men armwrestlingArticles & EssaysChristian FeministsChristian ThoughtChristian Women

Hey, John MacArthur. You have a Culture. It’s Called White (Christian) Patriarchy.

The tricky thing about cultures, though—cultural systems, cultural values, however you want to put it—is that they’re largely invisible to us when we’re inside those cultures. When you’re comfortably ensconced within a culture, it’s really hard to see your culture…
Kristin Kobes Du Mez
October 24, 2019