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Getting Schooled - Christian Nationalism 101
🕑 Added 2025-11-03 17:49:39 +0000 UTCWait… what even IS Christian Nationalism? We talk about it a lot, but the term’s slowly being redefined into something more palatable—is this a bait-and-switch? Kaitlyn and Skye define Christian Nationalism and why it is a problem for maintaining freedom as a nation.
Resources:
Disarming Leviathan: Loving Your Christian Nationalist Neighbor by Caleb Campbell: https://a.co/d/42UzJji
Christ and the Common Life: Political Theology and the Case for Democracy by Luke Brotherton: https://a.co/d/5JywWMk
Ballot and the Bible: How Scripture Has Been Used and Abused in American Politics and Where We Go from Here by Kaitlyn Schiess: https://a.co/d/dhHTJEL
Comments
Joel Buursma
"Civil Religion and the Renewal of American Politics (Cambridge Studies in Religion, Philosophy, and Society)" by Amy E. Black and Douglas L. Koopman covers Christian nationalism, strict secularism, and civil religion. https://www.amazon.com/Religion-American-Politics-Cambridge-Philosophy/dp/1107197473
Carlos Torres
I make reference to TSL AT LEAST once a week!
Vickie Hess
In thinking about these issues I am reminded of a section in “Screwtape Letters”—one of my all-time favorites. Lewis—in the persona of tempting demon—talks about “Christianity and” where we slip from valuing public issues because of our faith to valuing the faith because it supports a pet issue
Karis
Thank you for this! A few months ago, I was invited to discuss what CN is, its theological implications, and how to rightly love not just our CN neighbors (especially those on the far right of the spectrum), but anyone with whom we might vehemently disagree to an adult Sunday School, where many don’t know anything about it. The slides I put together leaned heavily on Campell’s book, as well as Miller’s The Religion of American Greatness (with mention of others, including Kaitlyn’s book) , and some of With God Daily Parables and Idols devotions. The first new thing I learned, having read extensively on the subject for several years, per a 2022 Pew study, was that half of the adults in the U.S. knew nothing or practically nothing about it. One of the things I emphasize is that CN isn’t just one thing (which I knew having been raised with a form of it), but rather a spectrum, and those responding to the Pew survey on the subject who knew something about it had a wide range of positive and negative descriptions of it. Really important is to not get into an “us-them” mindset. Thank you for this thoughtful discussion (will help me better frame the slide information/ presentation, which is still in development and morphing into 2 to 3 sessions).
