amanda tyler, executive director of the baptist joint committee and contributing author to the christian nationalism and the january 6th insurrection report. and kristen do may professor of history at calvin university and author of jesus and john wayne, how white evangelicals corrupted a faith and fractured a nation's and provocative titles around here. it can be a thank you so much joy to be able to start with you 1st. but the term kristen nationalism has cropped up at various times in u. s. history. and some will argue it's a had a consistent presence since the countries founding our connections to white supremacist groups like the k k k. to the more recent patriot front, a christian nationalism is by no means a new phenomenon. taking its history into account. how do you define christian nationalism as it is today? actually simply, i just defined it as people who believe that god created america for a purpose that america is special. in other words, when you are a christian nationalist, you believe that god created america as a christian nation. first of all, 2nd debt, white men who w