About The Event
Facilitator Bios
Kristin Kobes Du Mez is a
New York Times bestselling author and Professor of History at Calvin University. She is currently a Senior Democracy Fellow with the Public Religion Research Institute. Her research focuses on the intersection of gender, religion, and politics. She has written for
The New York Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Religion News Service, and
Christianity Today. Her most recent books include
Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation (2020) and
Live Laugh Love: The Secret History of White Christian Women and the World They Made (September 2026).
Micah Watson is Paul Henry Professor of Christianity and Politics at Calvin University, where he also directs the Henry Institute for the Study of Christianity and Politics and teaches in the Politics & Economics department. Among others, Micah is the author of
Natural Law and Evangelical Political Thought and the coauthor of
Hopeful Realism: Evangelical Natural Law and Democratic Politics (2025). He teaches political theory, the American constitutional tradition, and the relationship between religion and politics at Calvin University.