In the Media

Interviewed by Matt Sedensky for AP News story. Published April 26, 2017. Summary: Campaign promises may have been reshaped and some self-imposed deadlines reset. But among the things kept intact in the opening months of the new administration is the unmistakably…

Interviewed by Tara Golshan, Politics Reporter for VOX. Published 11 January 2017. Excerpts: President-elect Donald Trump’s much-anticipated, much-delayed press conference on his private business dealings — and the recent unverified reports about Russia’s alleged blackmail of Trump — reminded the nation of…

Interview by Daniel Burke, CNN Religion Editor, for the second of two stories on the religious beliefs of the presidential nominees, "The Public and Private Faith of Hillary Clinton." CNN, October 31, 2016. Excerpt As first lady, Clinton says, she…

Interview by Sarah Pulliam Bailey of The Washington Post for "The Deep Disgust for Hillary Clinton that Drives so Many Evangelicals to Support Trump."  Published in Acts of Faith: Religion Headlines that Matter.  Excerpt: New to the political scene, Trump offers white evangelicals…

Interviewed by Michael O'Loughlin for America: The Jesuit Review, Politics & Society. Published August 15, 2016. Excerpts: In the moments after delivering the biggest speech of her political life, when the balloons had finished falling and the upbeat music had faded…

Interview by Katelyn Beaty, Editor at Large for Christianity Today (2016). Beaty and Du Mez discuss events with fellow scholar Alan Nobel, English professor at Oklahoma Baptist University.   About the Episode Earlier this week, ESPN’s analytics site FiveThirtyEight gave…

Interviewed by Neelesh Moorthy as source for Politifact analysis which discusses claims by Donald Trump about what is known regarding Hillary Clinton's religion. Published June 24, 2016. Summary: Donald Trump claimed “We don't know anything about Hillary in terms of religion."…

Interview first published in Perspectives: Reformed Journal. 1 September 2015. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the publication of Mary Stewart van Leeuwen’s book Gender and Grace: Love, Work and Parenting in a Changing World, a book that has been a…

Today, American religious history, and the study of conservative evangelicalism in particular, remain a vibrant enterprise, continuing to illuminate powerful currents in American culture and politics. Yet as religious historians search for elusive "new directions" and attempt to speak to…

M. Madeline Southard (1877–1967) is known among Methodists today for her pioneering work for ecclesiastical rights for women, particularly for the pivotal role she played in the 1920s in opening up ordination to women in the Methodist Church. Among religious…

“Leaving Eden: Resurrecting the Work of Katharine Bushnell and Lee Anna Starr. Breaking Boundaries: Female Biblical Interpreters who Challenged the Status Quo, ed. Nancy Calvert Koyzis and Heather Weir (T&T Clark, 2010): 144-168.

Chapters for "Katharine Bushnell" (pp. 100-103) and "Lee Anna Starr" (pp. 473-475). From the Inside Flap "An elegantly written collection of entries examining women's influential reflections on Scripture and their own female identity. Each entry provides an enticing glimpse of…

DECEMBER 2007: REVIEW With its red, white, and blue cover and patriotic stars sprinkled throughout the text, Edward Humes’Over Here: How the G.I. Bill Transformed the American Dream appears to be yet another paean to America’s “Greatest Generation.” In many ways…

Abstract In the 1920s, a child evangelist by the name of Uldine Utley toured the United States, attracting large crowds and captivating the press. She enjoyed the support of ministers from a wide variety of denominations, though her most ardent…