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Kristin Kobes Du Mez
A Generation Embraces Raising Knights June 18, 2022
Kristin Kobes Du Mez is a historian and the best-selling author of Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation talks about the role of Christian pop culture in reshaping evangelical attitudes about gun rights, gender, and demographic changes sweeping across the country.

Then Du Mez discusses the role of religious political influencers from the religious right and how the “us versus them” mentality has contributed to polarization dividing America.

Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Ph.D. Professor of History and Gender Studies at Calvin University. Du Mez holds a Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame and her research focuses on the intersection of gender, religion, and politics. She has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Religion News Service, and Christianity Today,  Her most recent book is Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation.



Jesus and John Wayne
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