Baptizing America with Rev. Dr. Brian Kaylor

We often frame the white Christian nationalism as a problem exclusively of far-right, fundamentalist evangelicalism. What we talk much less about is mainline Protestants and how they have contributed to the rise of Christian nationalism from the 1940s to the present.

I talk with Rev. Dr. Brian Kaylor about the book he co-authored called, Baptizing America: How Mainline Protestants Helped Build Christian Nationalism.

Among the topics we cover are:

• Defining mainline Protestantism
• Distinguishing between civil religion and Christian Nationalism
• Why capitalize the "N" in Christian Nationalism
• How January 6, 2021 compares with January 6, 2022
• What can or should unite us as a civic body

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