Live, Laugh, Love was never just a sign
Pantsuit Politics

Live, Laugh, Love was never just a sign

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 6, 20261 hr 9 min

Sarah and Beth talk with Kristin Kobes Du Mez about her new book Live, Laugh, Love, exploring the history and influence of white Christian women's culture in America: how Live, Laugh, Love traces the roots of white Christian women's culture beyond evangelicalism, including Mormon and positive thinking influences the intertwining of religion, capitalism, and multi-level marketing, and how corporate power shaped Christian subcultures the impact of Christian fiction, media, and influencers from Little House on the Prairie to modern blogs and Instagram the challenges of writing recent history and representing living figures in the Christian women's influencer space <...

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When we place women at the center of our historical narratives and in American Christianity, that's where they belong, right? Just demographically speaking. We're talking about more women than men when we're talking about American Christianity.

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Lemonado. When we place women at the center of our historical narratives and in American Christianity, that's where they belong, right? Just demographically speaking. We're talking about more women than men when we're talking about American Christianity. So when we do place them at the center of our narratives, guess what?

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Everything else ends up getting reshuffled. ["The to Pantsuit Politics today, we're talking to Dr. Kristen Cobes-Dume about her new book, Live, Laugh, Love the Secret History of White Christian Women and the World They Made.

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This is her follow-up to Jesus and John Wayne, a book I think every single listener of this podcast has in fact read. Then outside of politics, we're talking about organization and the surprising places Beth and I are finding a little additional organization in our lives. Before we share our conversation with Kristen, I just want to mention that it's not too late

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