Over at The Week, Samuel Goldman makes some good points. Here is a taste: It’s easy to find criticisms of Christian nationalism, which dominate both academic and popular discussions of the subject. It’s far more difficult to locate advocates, at least...
Was America Founded as a Christian Nation Book
David and Tim Barton think Jefferson was a “real Christian.” But could he be an elder in their church?
Here is the Wallbuilders Facebook page: The strange part of this post is that the Bartons are promoting Jefferson as a real Christian, but if he applied for the elder or deacon board at their church his application would be...
Was America Founded as a Christian Nation?
I’ve had a lot to say about this topic in the past. Today, however, I am just going to offer some resources. For those inspired by Independence Day weekend to do some reading or viewing: Was America Founded as a...
How do Christian nationalists deal with the Establishment Clause?
Recently, a scholar in another discipline asked me how Christian nationalists who study the American past “ignore, navigate around, or distort the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.” I address this in Was America Founded as a Christian Nation?: A...
Christian nationalism lectures at Derry Presbyterian Church in Hershey
Learn more here. Also some interesting church history:...
What the heck is Rick Santorum talking about?
Please do not get your American history from my former U.S. Senator. Here is part of a recent lecture to the Young America’s Foundation: Let’s just get some facts straight: Some, but not all, Europeans came to North America to...
Martin Luther King Jr’s Christian nationalism
This is a piece I wrote in 2011 when I was doing a column at Patheos: When we think of the defenders of a Christian America today, the Christian Right immediately comes to mind. We think of people like Glenn...
For most of U.S. history, Americans were Christian nationalists. Or were they?
I hear a lot of people talking about “Christian nationalism” these days, but I don’t hear a lot of deep historical thinking on the subject. In the first four chapters of my book Was America Founded as a Christian Nation?,...