Live Laugh Love by Kristin Kobes Du Mez
Kaitlyn Hawker
Blog Editor-in-Chief
On October 22nd, Whitworth welcomed Kristin Kobes Du Mez as a part of the Weyerhaeuser Speaker Series. She came to speak about her upcoming book Live Laugh Love: White Christian Women and the World They Made. This is the first event where Du Mez spoke about the project and its 2026 release date.
Du Mez had lunch with a few students and professors from across campus. In that conversation, she took questions and talked more personally about her first book Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation and Live Laugh Love.
In her talks Du Mez reflected on the research process and reception of Jesus and John Wayne saying, “Those were some fun days on Twitter.” She thinks of herself more as a cultural historian rather than a novelist or author.
Du Mez is focused, in both her books, on how Christian virtues and values are replaced with ideology and negative teachings. She’s also concerned with how fringe ideas become mainstream and mainstream ideas become fringe.
At the end of her talk, Du Mez invited the audience to become theological revolutionaries, to rejoice in the Fruits of the Spirit, and love radically.
Whitworth’s Weyerheasuer Speaker Series often books authors several years in advance. If you’d like to see your favorite author on campus, talk to David Henreckson.
Du Mez had lunch with a few students and professors from across campus. In that conversation, she took questions and talked more personally about her first book Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation and Live Laugh Love.
In her talks Du Mez reflected on the research process and reception of Jesus and John Wayne saying, “Those were some fun days on Twitter.” She thinks of herself more as a cultural historian rather than a novelist or author.
Du Mez is focused, in both her books, on how Christian virtues and values are replaced with ideology and negative teachings. She’s also concerned with how fringe ideas become mainstream and mainstream ideas become fringe.
At the end of her talk, Du Mez invited the audience to become theological revolutionaries, to rejoice in the Fruits of the Spirit, and love radically.
Whitworth’s Weyerheasuer Speaker Series often books authors several years in advance. If you’d like to see your favorite author on campus, talk to David Henreckson.
