Or you can go read "Live, Laugh, Love" but @kkdumez.bsky.social to understand how people have been pushing for this for nearly 2 centuries.
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Kristin Du Mez
@kkdumez.bsky.social
Historian of gender, religion, politics. Author of NYT bestsellers JESUS AND JOHN WAYNE and LIVE LAUGH LOVE.
@jbemerson.bsky.socialReposted by @kkdumez.bsky.social@kkdumez.bsky.socialCommodifying your anxieties. đź’Ż
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@kkdumez.bsky.socialYou’re right. Underneath everything it is a sad book.
@kawulf.bsky.socialReposted by @kkdumez.bsky.socialBit of a break this weekend and starting by digging into @kkdumez.bsky.social essential new book. Read the intro a few weeks ago and have been holding on to this pocket of time. It’s sad, it’s enraging, it’s patriarchy. Also you learn where that perky LLL phrase originated.
@kkdumez.bsky.social“My marketing plan includes personal appearances at Christian churches, GOP rallies, homophobic chicken restaurant chains, Real Time with Bill Maher, and any place where people shoot cans of Bud Light with AK-47s.”
@kkdumez.bsky.socialKansas City friends, I’ll be talking about LIVE LAUGH LOVE tonight at 7pm at William Jewell’s Gano Chapel:
@bubbles9333.bsky.socialReposted by @kkdumez.bsky.socialRobert Morris, 64, who started Texas’s Gateway church and also once served as White House spiritual adviser during Donald Trump’s first presidency, pleaded guilty in early October in Osage county district court on five counts of lewd or indecent acts with child.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
@mprnews.orgReposted by @kkdumez.bsky.socialIn her new book, “Live Laugh Love: The Secret History of White Christian Women and the World They Made,” historian @kkdumez.bsky.social reveals the often-hidden world of white Christian women, which she says influences the country as a whole.
@kkdumez.bsky.socialI’ll be in Minneapolis tonight, at 6:30 at Hennepin UMC! Grateful to MPR for this little preview: www.mprnews.org/story/2026/1...
@andrawatkins.bsky.socialReposted by @kkdumez.bsky.socialProud to be part of this deep dive into fierce female fighters of White Christian Nationalism. @aprilajoy.bsky.social @amandatylerbjc.bsky.social @katherinestewart.bsky.social
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Jennifer Butler, @kkdumez.bsky.social
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@dytsras.bsky.socialReposted by @kkdumez.bsky.socialThere's this strange homoerotic fixation that Christian nationalists have toward their conception of Christ.
I didnt know about it till I read the excellent "Jesus and John Wayne" by @kkdumez.bsky.social a few years back. And it tracks every single time
@dwmbarker.bsky.socialReposted by @kkdumez.bsky.socialWhat does it mean that Christian Nationalists support democracy at the same rates as Americans as a whole? Looking at data from the Democracy for All Project, research fellow @andrew-whitehead.bsky.social sees a national disconnect over the meaning of democracy. tinyurl.com/yc47a7ck
@kkdumez.bsky.socialTonight, in Birmingham:
@kkdumez.bsky.socialBirmingham friends, I’m coming your way tomorrow evening! share.google/q5YJpg6tWDr4...
@kkdumez.bsky.socialThoughts on the latest revelations in the Globe and Mail on the Alberta separatist movement: kristindumez.substack.com/p/when-the-c...
@christabrown.bsky.socialReposted by @kkdumez.bsky.social“What is distinctive is the way evangelical theology & organizational structures enable those with authority to perpetrate, cover up & dismiss abuse… Evangelicals have created totalizing systems that shield perpetrators & silence victims.” – @kkdumez.bsky.social, LIVE LAUGH LOVE (p. 295)
@abbyolcese.bsky.socialReposted by @kkdumez.bsky.socialKansas City: Did you know @kkdumez.bsky.social is coming to William Jewell on Thursday to talk about the EXCELLENT Live Laugh Love? She is! We talked about Brio Magazine and Precious Moments and bad theology for @thepitch.bsky.social: share.google/ap4yRn9TWqVG...
@ericlipton.nytimes.comReposted by @kkdumez.bsky.socialJUST POSTED: Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have pushed a multibillion oil deal with Russia as part of peace talks that will bring profits to their family business partners. A new front for Trump-era conflicts of interest.
nytimes.comU.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
@cvlkulow.bsky.socialReposted by @kkdumez.bsky.social“It wasn’t until April 1975 that women had a word for talking about what their male bosses were doing to them.”