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Can Hillary Clinton’s Faith Help Her Lead a Fractured Nation? Articles & EssaysChristian ThoughtHillary Clinton

Can Hillary Clinton’s Faith Help Her Lead a Fractured Nation?

First Published: Religion & Politics. July 25, 2016. https://religionandpolitics.org/2016/07/25/can-clintons-faith-help-her-lead-a-fractured-nation/ Last month, at a closed meeting with evangelical leaders, Donald Trump asserted his Christian bona fides. He boasted of his child-rearing practices, touted the virtues of Sunday School, identified religious liberty as “the…
Kristin Kobes Du Mez
July 21, 2016
History, Memory, and Relevance: Reflections on Christian Feminism Today Artistic rendering of PentecostArticles & EssaysChristian FeministsChristian Women

History, Memory, and Relevance: Reflections on Christian Feminism Today

Last week I attended the biennial Christian Feminism Today conference, an organization better known among historians by its previous name, the EEWC (Evangelical and Ecumenical Women’s Conference), or perhaps even by its original name, the EWC (Evangelical Women’s Caucus). The EWC was…
Kristin Kobes Du Mez
June 30, 2016
The Crime is the Fruit of the Theology: Christian Responses to “50 Shades of Grey” image of 50 shades of grey film logoArticles & EssaysChristian ThoughtSexual Abuse & #MeToo

The Crime is the Fruit of the Theology: Christian Responses to “50 Shades of Grey”

The much anticipated Valentine’s Day release 50 Shades of Grey set off a flurry of activity on social media sites, with bloggers lining up to cajole, shame, reason, or plead with women to resist temptation and abstain from viewing the film. In…
Kristin Kobes Du Mez
March 15, 2015