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Feb 2024
51m 48s

The Threat of White Christian Nationalis...

THE LINCOLN PROJECT
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In the first episode of “The Threat of White Christian Nationalism”, host Reed Galen is joined by journalist and bestselling author Jeff Sharlet. They discuss the religious and cultural landscape of present-day American evangelicalism, how white Christian nationalism is not "old-time religion" but a rapidly mutating political theology, and how white Christia ... Show More
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