It is easy to assume that Conservative Christians have held the majority influence on American politics. Journalist and scholar of religion, Jack Jenkins, suggests the opposite: that the Religious Left, instead, has fundamentally shaped the progressive values at the heart of American democracy — like abolition, labor reform, civil rights, and environmental preservation.

Listen today as Aaron and Jack discuss the politics that history ignores; and why, perhaps, it is time to rethink our understanding of Christianity's relation to the Left. 

Read American Prophets by Jack Jenkins today: http://www.jackjenkins.me/american-prophets.html