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JESUS AND JOHN WAYNE: A CONVERSATION WITH KRISTIN DUMEZ
JUNE 10 , 2021
4:00 PM (PDT)

Kristen Kobes Du Mez, Calvin University History Professor

Kristin Kobes Du Mez is a professor of History and Gender Studies at Calvin University. Reared in Sioux Center, Iowa, a graduate of Dordt College (where her father was a professor), she holds a PhD from the University of Notre Dame. Her research focuses on the intersection of gender, religion, and politics. She has written for the Washington Post, Religion News Service, Christianity Today, and NBC, and has been interviewed on NPR, CTV, the CBC, BBC, and by CNN, the New York Times, and the AP, among other outlets; she blogs at Patheos’s “Anxious Bench” and is a featured podcast speaker. Her book, Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation, is a thoroughly researched and documented study of white evangelical views of masculinity from the Cold War to the present, and how this view of “manliness” affects everything in evangelical culture, from how women are treated, to how and why some politicians are admired. Dr. Du Mez is a gifted speaker and well-received in all circles. She’s winsome, articulate, and determined to shed light on one of the darkest corners of the Christian Faith. Because truth matters to faith, even as faith matters to truth.