Once The Making of Biblical Womanhood gets into the early modern period, we start to see more of the roots of “biblical womanhood.” Beth Allison Barr leads us through history, stacking the blocks that made our modern evangelical churches. Although I have a lot of thoughts about each of these Read more…
In my last blog, I spoke almost exclusively about the political side of Du Mez’s book, Jesus and John Wayne. I purposefully didn’t spend a lot of time on the major aspect that pushed Evangelicals into politics to begin with: gender roles. I have a lot to say about this Read more…
It was hard to wrap my mind around how I wanted to go about this. The first book I read – Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation[1] by Kristin Kobes Du Mez – was absolutely phenomenal. I highly recommend reading it if Read more…