Kristin Kobes Du Mez is a New York Times bestselling author and Professor of History at Calvin University. She is regularly featured in national and international media such as NPR, CNN, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the BBC, and is author of Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation (Norton’s Liveright Publishing, 2020), and A New Gospel for Women (Oxford University Press, 2015). Du Mez holds a Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame and writes on the intersection of gender, religion, and politics on her Substack newsletter, Du Mez CONNECTIONS. Her next book, Live Laugh Love, is set to release September 2026.
