Moncrieff Highlights

Christian Nationalism

01.19.2022 - By NewstalkPlay

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If you were watching any of the coverage of the 1 year anniversary of the storming of the Capitol in Washington you will of course have seen many rioters carrying US or even confederate flags during the riot.

But it wasn’t just flags. There was also a lot of religious phrases and iconography on display on that day. 

This is indicative of the rise of Christian Nationalism in America so what is Christian Nationalism?

Andrew Whitehead is Associate Professor of Sociology at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis and author of Taking America Back for God: Christian Nationalism in the United States.

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