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6 days ago | 
kristindumez.substack.com | Kristin Du Mez
June 23, 2020. I decided I had just enough time for a run, if I ran really fast. I laced up my shoes and headed out the door. As I ran my usual route, I picked up speed. I needed to get back before 8am. It was probably my fastest morning run before or since, and I got back just in time to hear Jesus and John Wayne debut on NPR’s Morning Edition. I’d recorded with Steve Inskeep the Friday before, and I had been terrified. When I listened to the 7-minute conversation, I loved it.
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1 week ago | 
kristindumez.substack.com | Kristin Du Mez
I did it for love’s sake. Since hearing the news of the political assassination of Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark Horton, and the shootings of Minnesota Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, I’ve been horrified by a sense of the evil that seems to be overtaking us. We know that the perpetrator, Vance Boelter, was a devout Christian.
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2 weeks ago | 
kristindumez.substack.com | Kristin Du Mez
Tomorrow, Trump will be holding a dictator-style military parade in the nation’s capital to celebrate his 79th birthday. Or rather, to celebrate the Army’s 250th anniversary. Frankly, it’s not entirely clear who or what is being celebrated. What is clear is that the event will cost tens of millions of dollars. Roads have been blocked off, and hundreds of tanks, military vehicles, and aircraft have been assembled. It’s a whole thing.
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2 weeks ago | 
kristindumez.substack.com | Kristin Du Mez
It was a quick trip to Oxford and back, but while I’m over my jetlag (mostly), I find myself returning in my thoughts to my time there. First, the professional highlight: I had a fruitful time presenting research from my next book at Oxford University’s Rothermere American Institute and conversing with four fabulous scholars: Lisa McGirr (Harvard), Melinda Cooper (Australian National University), Noam Maggor (Queen Mary University, London), and Joel Suarez (Harvard).
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2 weeks ago | 
open.substack.com | Kristin Du Mez
Exploring connections between religion, gender, & politics and defending our democracy. · Over 31,000 subscribersBy subscribing, I agree to Substack’s Terms of Use and acknowledge its Information Collection Notice and Privacy Policy“Kristin Du Mez offers a confronting socio-historical perspective on the intersection of patriarchy and religion in America.
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2 weeks ago | 
kristindumez.substack.com | Kristin Du Mez
Jennifer Lyell died yesterday. Three years ago, she told me she didn’t think she would live. She had survived alleged sexual abuse at the hands of her seminary professor. For a time, she survived being viciously attacked, over and over again, by those who sought to make her out as the villain, the temptress, the whore. But she told me she didn’t think she could survive what was being done to her much longer. Yesterday, her body gave out. The stated cause was a series of massive strokes. She was 47.
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1 month ago | 
kristindumez.substack.com | Kristin Du Mez
I can’t remember exactly when I first heard the name Elon Musk, but I can remember how: my students thought he was cool. Not all my students, primarily just the young white men. When I asked them to tell me more about this guy and why they liked him so much, they had trouble pinpointing why. He was just cool. And rich. And clearly brilliant, because he was so rich. This crossed my mind when I read Michelle Goldberg’s scathing piece on Musk in today’s New York Times.
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1 month ago | 
kristindumez.substack.com | Kristin Du Mez
There are plenty of heavy things to talk about (see our latest episode of the Convocation Unscripted for a dose of that), but today I didn’t feel like writing about them. Instead, I thought it might be time for some lighter fare. You know those online recipes where you have to scroll past all the pictures to get to the content? This is the opposite of that. I’ll start with a tiny bit of content and then let you scroll through the pictures.
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1 month ago | 
kristindumez.substack.com | Kristin Du Mez
On this Memorial Day, I thought I’d share a recent conversation I had with Neal Rickner after our mutual friend Ken Harbaugh connected us. Ken produced my film For Our Daughters and hosts The Ken Harbaugh Show on MeidasTouch. A former Navy pilot, Ken advocates for veterans and works with veteran communities to promote civic engagement. Ken recently launched a new project, VALOR Media Network.
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1 month ago | 
kristindumez.substack.com | Kristin Du Mez
While researching my next book, Live Laugh Love, I’ve been noticing a trend: the quiet influence of Canadian evangelical women on American evangelicalism. Ann Voskamp, one of the pioneers of the Christian women’s blogosphere, and Sarah Bessey, one of the prophets of the deconstruction movement, both hail from Canada. Many of their readers forget this, I think, but at times the (healthy) friction between Canadian and American evangelicalism is apparent in their writings.
