christian summer camps. christian bookstores. christian christian amusement parks. jim and tammy faye bakker, the head of the pta, all television network, create a theme park out in south carolina in 1978 called heritage usa, a jim baker's hero is walt disney. he wants to he outwardly calls i want to create a christian version of disneyland. and and he heritage usa in south carolina becomes the third most successful amusement park most attended amusement park in the 1970s and 1980s, only behind disney world, out in florida. and, of course, disneyland here in orange county. i just love looking at his maps here. here is here is a picture of heritage usa, the map of your church usa. here's a map of disneyland, exact same year. you can see jim baker's taking a lot of inspiration about what he wants. a pleasure community for christians to look like. right. and jim baker's religious theme park has a jerusalem ampitheater a christian stores, christian cafeterias and a massive, massive water park. now you got to give you an example, and this is a lot of text. i apologize, g

they created christian senior homes, banks, auto shops, christian beauty shops, christian medical office and also embraced pleasure institutions. evangelicals creating christian dude ranch is out west, radio programs, tv programs, summer camps, christian amusement parks. jim and tammy faye baker, the head of the ptl television network, create a theme park in south carolina in 1978 called heritage usa. jim baker is a hero as walt disney. he outwardly calls and want to create a christian version of disneyland and heritage usa becomes the third most attended amusement park in the 1970s and 1980s only behind disney world in florida and disneyland here in orange county. i love looking at these maps here. here is a picture of heritage usa. here is a map of disneyland the same year. you can see jim baker is taking a lot of inspiration about what he wants a pleasure community for christians to look like and jim baker's religious theme park has a jerusalem amphitheater, christian stores, and the massive waterpark. to give you an example, and this is a lot of text, but i want to redo what a social

america was built off christian values, therefore, this is a christian country, and we should have christianichard shaw: why then is jesus nor christianity mentioned in the constitution. why would you even place in that freedom of religion? so to me, the argument is silly. it's nonsense. i'm going to really have a problem with christianity if you say that it was found off of christian values with the things that took place right here on american soil. what was done to the native americans, then what was done to my people and others. donnie o'sullivan: dennis, i can sense that you're particularly . angry. i mean, this really gets to you. dennis jacobsen: yeah, it does. i've had it up to here with distortion of one of the most astonishing revolutionaries into a white jesus wearing a red maga hat. it's just unbelievable to me. i think one reason that younger people are walking right past the door to church is because of the idiocy they see in this movement. (singing) whose broad stripes and bright stars. donnie o'sullivan: so a lot of americans believe that god views america as special. we tell

and i see it tearing families apart christian nationalism is not christian at all. i started getting called names by people that i loved and had known for over a decade. i was called a fascist a communists and that i had a luciferian spirit of fear the athletes in awe or pushing the limits of what is capable ready to show the world how good i am. >> i train all over the globe. >> and that's what you're going to see an awol whole different be dealt with. he wednesday night dynamite at 8:00 on tbs no, sir. we just want to have enough money for retirement and traveled to visit our grandchildren. >> i understand. that's why at fisher investments, we start by getting to know each other. so i can warn about your family lifestyle, goals and needs, allowing us to tailor your portfolio. >> what about commission-based products? >> we don't sell those were a fiduciary obligated to act in your best interests? >> so how do your management fees work? >> we have a transparent fee structured, so we do better when you do better at fisher investments were clearly different. >> detect

of christianity in europe , including, one of the tasks is the following... we often talk about the state of minds, so to speak, in europe, in the west, here is the european man in the street who sees around themselves, so to speak, all the nonsense of these so -called new values, there is the last olympics, it was absolutely clear, as it demonstrated as a declaration, where the west is moving, to whom it swore allegiance and so on and so forth, so the european, including, must be deprived of any alternative, here is a conventionally european christian, yes, he feels bad, he does not understand, so to speak, yes, someone has already been persuaded, someone still believes in something, and he says: there were some orthodox in the east, yes there were... now the time has come, so to speak, to show this is confessionism, and what did you want, you thought, you will only read books, read, read, remember about those christians who were killed there, that is, in those very arenas of the roman empire, or about some other ones , who were shot, everything will be fine

christian. jewish as well. what does our food need and how do we apply our faith to this political dialog so important for this election year, i want to get into that later on in the conversation specifically how we reach out to the faith based communities. so i think are also being manipulated by fear, but if you don't mind me asking, you know, as a christian, as a person who believes in god and believes in jesus and the true jesus, how does it you feel personally when a twice impeachable guerin who was held for sexual assault by a jury of his, compares himself to jesus and holds the bible. i mean, just the emotional, visceral reaction that this person is branding himself as the warrior for christianity and jesus. well, you recall he he he got a general to clear the non violent, peaceful protesters from lafayette square. you want to st john's church now i know st john's church i know it rector the bishop there no permission and he held his bible ironically revealing upside down. he's not comfortable with the b

you're talking about rejecting christian nationalism. how would you define christian nationalism in 2024 america? >> great question, and i talk about it in the book is white christian nationalism. the name spells the problem. first of all, we have discussed the most inviting, welcoming and inclusive message in the world that becomes white. that's a problem. it doesn't mean service and sacrifice and love. it means control and domination. christians should be in charge and have a preference. they should rule somehow. the theology this isn't new. they should be in charge of -- i'm getting up in years now the followers in all the world making disciples in every nation so that whatever i have commanded you so most of the book is about iconic biblical texts particularly teachings of jesus. what did he say, what did he eat and what does that mean right now? >> and in the book, i went to be an all boys catholic school by the way so i read the bible even though i'm a muslim and i think you would be proud to learn that i got the highest grade ever

it's white, not christian, but and black christians often helped teach white, non-christian but white. black christians will often help teach me the way forward here. so how do we challenge what you're saying they're doing, their fear, their wanting to deny the people who are different than they are? how do we do that religiously and theologically, not just politically? i don't think were going to win this battle with politics i i itself. sorting out partisan politics. how to get to the deeper questions about what kind of nation do we want to be? what kind of, i think it's things people can do where they are. everybody who's listening here is an influencer somewhere. places and spaces where people listen to. and so how do we do that? how do we, this book is full of stories doing that, ordinary people. and one ofte them, it's a favore of my, a is one of my team has a father who is a scottish, he's presbyterian minister in rural georgia. he and his wife is in the choir, and as is often the pattern of the spouse in the choir, and they practice before and so his the are practicing one sun

christian: good to talk to you tonight. thank you for coming on.world and across the u.k., this is bbc news. ♪ ♪ christian: welcome back. aftehis speech today, the british prime minister got on a plane to berlin for meeting with the german chancellor. with ukraine high on the list of issues to discuss. germany has been a huge contributor to the ukrainian defense effort but they have an economic crisis. of their own mr. schulz has been under pressure. and the issue of longer-range cruise missiles. wondering if missile should be authorized for u inside russia. germany has not sent its equivalent cruise missile. with us to discuss is christine in washington. the managing director of the think tank. keir starmer said no new decisions, different decisions have been taken on the use of weapons inside russia. does this come down to the white house? can you hear me? christine: now i do. christian: i was making the point that the british prime minister has said no decisions or different decisions have been taken on the use of weapons inside russia. i wonder

christianity is equally accepted both at the western courts and at the court of emperor rameev, wherehe greeks allowed, in general, these two worlds, western and eastern, to unite two christian poles, and vladimir, probably also somewhere in the middle between them, also refracted this unity in a special way, so somehow i felt, well, you can also remember that the first ... the great theological text of ancient russia, the word of law and grace of metropolitan ilorion, it does not at all concentrate on the theological differences of the east and west, his entire theology of history, all ecclesiology, the word of the law of grace is a clisiology of biblical history and the christian church, as a gift of grace the new testament without all these insipid differences, and this was a way out of ethnic-pagan self-isolation, and this was essentially a choice that meant national self-denial, no matter how much we learned. well, historically this is quite an obvious fact and which, in fact, may be opposed to the political situation, partly today, despite all its difficulties, well, of course ,

in the history of christianity, all the advances of christianity, shrines that were gaining assemblableolkastyu, as long as the catalitskaya pausidnaga kastsela, dze bachanay galava, the apostates of jesus christ are gone ezza. yana lechyts, sutsyashae, padmatsovae, there is a lot of practice, just like our schastniks. and the festival is an hour when it is possible to tell these unique attacks in order to explain what bagarodzitsa and the famous paprasitsa did, the meeting, as well as the festival, the festival, yes the tree of the saint has a roof, yadoma, we are meeting we look at the three roofs, the roofs of pan jesus, the roofs of our ulasna, and the roofs of another chalavek, and our motto is now, change in the hour of pilgrimage, the best respect for the three roofs, that is , looking at your brother, like on the side, not in the pit yes, what kind of problems do i experience in my life, and what can i tell mr. yesus, the most reverend mrs. mary and this. from mensk, navat, from slabodki, well, you can say it, from syabroskaya, we have a play, i plan that in the coming times the

it is to make the united states a mighty christian nation, and to christianize world. my earlier claim that there's nothing new about christian nationalism and christian nationalism isn't, the monopoly of the political or social right. there's wilson saying that this that this is the task facing. the united states in 1915 and what it means to christianize the world that would a lot of care a lot of thinking and research. this is what the social gospel had been saying it has a it has a more meaning. remember it's not about individual salvation has an earthly social meaning for. the economy and politics, society and education so to christianize the world would mean to transform relations, to get rid of balance of power. as we've been talking about. all right. now back to problem of rea abrams preachers arms. i and the obstacles we would face as historians if we wanted do a careful careful job here so much so many of our world war one sources when it comes the churches in america so much of that choosing has already been done for us and i don't mean by ray abrams in 1933

sunday christians, they exist, right?eal people of faith, that really ascribed to the principles that come from the bible, they don't actually stand for what donald trump stands for. so, how do you get across to those that may think that trump is some type of messiah for them, but really, he is not a representative of their true christian faith. >> yeah, too many christians have forgotten all about jesus, and now worship at the feet of donald trump. a business cheap, a pathological liar, hí(hserial adulterer, a twice impeached insurrectionist, a convicted felon, and ,r@q1gicated . i guess hate the sin, elect the center. that seems to be the new model to many christians in this country. so i just try to ask myself a simple question, when i engage in this democracy, in the political process. what would jesus do? i remember when i was a kid, people walked around with those bracelets, with the letters ww jd. and i think that question is still relevant today, in this election. what would jesus do about a tax system that benefi

, at the same time we see such a deeply personal understanding of christianity in this commandment not , including you how he found me, listen, well, i’m a cop, i didn’t find people like that, he can... ruin it, he won’t have time, you’re an investigator for especially important cases, for what purpose did special missions come to us, you came back, well done, but you have to understand what you have with this cop it’s not good to be, it’s dangerous that i received the money, there’s enough for five tickets, two adults and three children, yes, moscow, why are you silent, we’re going or not, look. that i am without her, i have a pile of memories, but this is my mother. yulia nachalova died very young, at 38, leaving her beloved daughter, vera, to her parents and ex-husband. i said that, unfortunately, i have very difficult news for you, that mom is no longer with us, that’s what he experienced at that moment, that evening, only he knows, it’s a big responsibility to tell your child that his mother passed away. how did my only daughter survive this loss? what path did she take after her

orientation, its christian ethos. joy, this is an area that is so frustrating not just to many americans but republicans certainly like myself, former republicans. the perversion of faith in the public scare, the greatest empowerment to any faith in america would be a government that grants the most amount of freedom to practice that faith, not to dictate it from the courthouse, but to empower the church house, to evangelize their teachers. it does not say go and build state capitals. it says go and build churches. not a calling to change the government. it's a calling to change hearts and minds toward the faith you choose to practice. a government that suggests, and this goes back to the muslim ban that donald trump declared in december of 2015, a government that suggests we're going to prioritize certain faiths and institute the dock talts of certain faiths in our government ultimately undermines that faith and undermines all faiths because it delegitimizes the practice of faith in the country. that's the perversion

the last stop in the scene many said was a mockery of christianity. are the country we generate to imagine how far i take on the story. the french president, the menu, and nicole said after the opening ceremony for the paras olympic games that in 100 years, people will still be talking about it. not sure about that, but one week later, the controversy continues particularly over the scene depicting what appeared to be the last supper with drag queens in various states of corpulent and dress and gender ambiguity in the place of jesus and the disciples. a bunch of folks pitched a fit about it and decided that they were going to complain about the fact that it bended christian. so let me organizers went into damage control in an attempt to set things straight about. the creative vision of the opening shows director to immeasurably thomas jolly, took inspiration from leonardo da vinci's famous painting to create the setting and olympic spokes person admitted to the post in a statement on saturday. referring to the opening ceremony creative director, nice

the life of a christian is filled with difficulties, trials, situations, it would seem that there is no way out, but we are not alone, on our spiritual path to god, we have a quick helper, whose intercession has been felt by all generations of christians without exception. the mother of god today extends her amaphor over those who need her help. there are many icons of the mother of god, but the mother of god is one, we turn to her in fervent prayer, standing and in front of the icon at home and in front of the miraculous minsk icon and other images. it is necessary to remember that what we ask for should contribute to our pious life according to the commandments of christ. in spiritual literature there is a well-known case when people turned to the mother of god with sinful requests, but received in response not help, but reproof from her. therefore. turning to the miraculous minsk icon with a prayer to the most holy theotokos, believers try to arrange their lives according to the commandments god's. there are many very ancient, famous miraculous icons of the holy mother of god, loc

what is a family in the christian tradition? me, a family is understood from the point of view of christianity after all. john chrysostom, a famous father of the church, says that a family is a small church. the holy scriptures say that a family is a home church. apostle paul writes that the husband is the image of christ. and... the wife is the image of the church, therefore, as christ cares for his church, yes, he was crucified and resurrected, suffered for the sins of the church, so the husband should treat his wife. by the way, there is a very perverse attitude to the biblical message, when a person, without studying the issue, says that the church is quite patriarchal or sexist, yes, that the husband should lead his wife, this is not so, but this is not primacy in the sense of who is more important. who is more important, who has more responsibilities and right, it is rather a spiritual relationship, therefore the family is first of all a spiritual union, yes, rather than, as we are accustomed to understanding, that it is s

it is very regrettable that in paris we witnessed an insult to christianity in the holy gospel, which is also insulting to all civilized people who recognize the right to face and respect, religious symbols. if the international sports games, the olympic games were supposed to be about promoting harmony and peace between societies, they have now become a minority tool to humiliate and denigrate a religion of more than $2000000000.00 believers. more importantly, the issue of defiant, discriminatory and defensive attitudes towards christian believers remains. europe has no future without a real and living face in enduring christian values across the atlantic. the us republican party in full campaign mode at home and had of the november elections took note of all the really low hanging fruit being served up here in europe around this issue. and seized the opportunity to do some virtue signaling off their own. and also to do what the us does best tell the rest of the world what to do, in this case, the global institution in question being the international olympic committee. these hardcor

this is why people like christian zimmerman and his horse enter the sirena.r and his horse so that one day they could reach their dream together. the horse has become a symbol for the palestinian people to keep the palestinian culture alive in the face of zionist aggression. for horse racing fans, this is gaza's premiere annual occasion, the runway of the territories airport bombed by israel in 2001, three years after it opened, has become literally wasteland, but this event in southern rafa still draws a crowd from across the gaza strip, we come here for some fun because of the siege, covid-19 and all the other difficult. after preliminary rounds, six entrance had qualified for the final, but at least nod towards health and safety concerns, only three were able to run. four-year-old local favorite motowako, born in rafa, sired by race horse imported from israel, easily outran the competition, narrowly evaded the crowds for a clear victory, for the winning jockey, his moment of triumph, but with it ke sense of awareness of everything that's missing, the racet

many said was a vile mockery of christianity ortiz contributor rachel marston has the story. the french president, a menu, and nicole said after the opening ceremony for the paras olympic games, but in 100 years, people will still be talking about it. not sure about that. but one week later, the controversy continues particularly over the scene depicting what appeared to be the last supper with dried queens in various states of corpulent, on dress and gender ambiguity in the place of jesus and the disciples. a bunch of folks pitched a fit about it and decided that they were going to complain about the fact that the bended christian. so let's look organizers went into damage control in an attempt to set things straight about the creative vision of the opening shows director to immeasurably thomas john lee took inspiration from leonardo da vinci's famous painting to create the setting and olympic spokes person admitted to the post in a statement on saturday, referring to the opening ceremony creative director, nice hair splitting there. it wasn't satirizing the actual dinner, j

this is a critic of christianity. well now they are critics of the progressive version of this in some ways. had is that one should seek to be equal in all things and seek to be a victim. and victims are celebrated. well what is costen or bronze age or whomever it might be recommending don't be a victim. be great. be a victor be someone who is distinctive strong and powerful a doesn't conform doesn't seem to be average. now in many of its most obvious respects this philosophy like himself is deeply ill liberal simply no question. it is not only anti-legaltarian and not in the sense of -- material forms. it is antiegalitarian we are rank individuals against each other and rank races against each other we can rank genders and certain people are better and certain people are worse. so there's no idea there's no theory of inherent dignity of human beings that you find in the christian tradition, in fact, the christian tradition has withering scorn and critique by the bronze age mindset it is racist, and misogynist and hie

and christians doctrines as the law of the land the people of alabama.me court is not the cheaply a lotion of the people of alabama and we saw swift outcry about that decision and pushback from people of all faiths, including christians. >> you bring up such an important point with a reference to the alabama supreme court ruling because it leads me to me to ask about whether or not those types of decisions, this broader effort to basically perhaps to ban ivf, willie reached new level of the abortion debate in this country? will it become a factor in the way people vote and the ability to organize and mobilize around this issue? >> i think these ivf rulings and also the statements from places like the southern baptist convention show that there are a lot of unexpected and unintended consequences in a post roe world. we see really majorities of americans who deeply concerned about women's health, about abortion bands without exceptions, about the status of reproductive freedom in this country. i think we are correct to be alert to the u.s. other incursions

mean, on the one hand, on the other hand, that this is bad, we say, even here actually from the christian point of view, that before becoming deified, one must become human, and what i hear in the words of sergei nikolaevich is that guys, let's become human, well , we have a certain teaching about, that is, the transformation of man. this is a christian teaching and a christian worldview and from this point of view i tried yes-yes-yes this is what transforms man, i am a little afraid of teachings about society about the possibility of this society , as it were, changing, transforming within the framework of certain given ethical systems, as if pulling people under these, as if created someone ethical systems, which are partly rational, partly rational, morality itself, something else benefit, well, some kind of combination, why because to mars a little bit. i'll come back, this is important, this will be the answer to this question, because - in marx's time there was a very tough dispute between communists and socialists, it consisted in the fact that the communists said that capitalism s

so we're going to dust off christianity and change at a level. you don't change your it's, you know, the national leaders have no business messing around with, with religion. and yet, you know, this, i think there's, there's very little, a genuine religious belief among the global laws who really run the world into the decade to us. what we will and won't do. these are people who are above the, the level of, of nation states. and so it, it's, it's a great shame because russia has, has a powerful christian tradition. courses has, it has other religions. it has islam and the toes. so the number of buddhist and so forth, but uh, the, the russian orthodox churches, the, is historically the major church in russia. and, and it's interesting how in russia the, the church is protected by various laws that prohibited blasphemous action being taken towards the church. the you know, years ago we had this obscene group called the pushy riot, and they, they went into a major orthodox cathedral in moscow. and they did outrages things in the midst of the, of th

christian zimmerman is from a prominent and famous family in germany. he is a descendant of robert schuman, the influential. german composer, pianist and music critic. schumaman is one of the greatest romantic era composers in europe. he pursued equestrian sports in dressage until the age of 26. dressage is part of the olympic competition and was included in a list of events at the 1912 stockholm olympics for the first. the young zimmerman soon abandoned the sport and entered the business world. after leaving professional sports, he took on the position of ceo at the family's advertising agency, uniplan. uniplan was family business, and he in a way replaced his father, hans grohe, the ceo and found. the company, he was very successful in his work and able to expand the family business from colone, germany to throughout europe and even asia. despite his success in the business world, christian never abandoned the idea of horseback riding to the extent that after 18 years of absence from professional competitions, he resumed his professional equestrian ca

such incidents are numerous, but the story of christian zimmerman is unique and different.an interview, zimmerman stated the idea of competing in the olympics under the palestinian flag was suggested by his palestinian friends. in an interview about his decision to choose palestine, zimmerman said, i met a fan. of a russian diplomat who was originally palestinian and they suggested that i compete for palestine. it was a difficult decision and i thought about it for a long time. everyone in germany talks about israel and i want it to be the voice of palestine and bring it everyone's attention. my team and i are going to hebron. old city, which is ground zero of israeli apartide. today, 33,000 palestinians live in this part of hebron, which is under full israeli military control and fragmented by checkpoints, military outposts and around 1,0 israeli settlers who live here in violation of international law. this is faden who has lived in this home his whole life. in the 1980s, israel set up this checkpoint in front of his house. father now has to check in every time he leaves

which isn't shared by people of all religions or even all christians.ve that it begins at a different point and many christians don't hold the view that life begins at conception and even those who do don't hold the view that that view should be imposed on everybody else. we do have separation of church and state in this country and we have this idea that we shouldn't have religious coercion including these laws. i think a huge wake up call for me and so many other people was the decision from the alabama supreme court in february were the chief justice of the alabama supreme court in his concurring opinion used the bible and theologians as legal support clearly trying to impose christianity and christian doctrine as the law of the land for the people of alabama and the chief justice of the supreme court is not the chief theologian of the people of alabama and we saw a swift outcry about that decision and pushback from people of all faiths including christians. >> you bring up an important point with a reference to the alabama supreme court ruling becau

joined right now by spencer christian.l tell you, there's nothing scary about our weather today. not at all. gorgeous outside. >> it really is gorgeous. not even a cloud at the golden gate, which is unusual. here's a look at what's going on with our weather, starting with the satellite radar composite image. now you notice that a spiraling area spinning sort of counterclockwise there. that's our big low pressure system offshore that yesterday brought us more clouds and some drizzle. it's lifted northward just a bit, but it still has a breezy influence on the bay area. it's pretty gusty right now with wind speeds up to 33mph at sfo, 21 mile per hour gusts at novato, and pretty breezy just about everywhere else as well. nonetheless, despite that onshore breeze, it is warmer in most places than at this time yesterday, six degrees warmer in concord and fairfield, four degrees warmer in novato and santa rosa. two degrees warmer at oakland. so let's move along and take a look at what's going on right now. live view from mount ta

bishop william barber, who is an evangelical christian.istian pastors led the civil rights movement, think rev sharpton. not all christians are the evangelical white dudes with main character energy from the hand maid's tale. this election does keep delivering surprises. some white evangelical protestants are fed up with trump. gave him 84% of their national vote in 2020. they're not alone in tiring of his act. a separate group, christians for kamala had a zoom meeting that included leaders from several progressive groups urging supporters to get behind harris and walz. call it divine intervention or perhaps lots of christians are just getting fed up with being associated with the hateful vision of donald trump. his bible stunts and religious hypocrisy and fighting back with a counternarrative to conservative evangelicals overwhelming support for trump. these groups say the conversation on faith and spir chutly has been hijacked by the christian right. the list continues. the group hijacked by maga want their identities back include unions

the one of christians pupils, danielle, a large works with him. the am doing a project of 40 faithfuls which are essentially bentwood boxes. they're going to be used in a ceremony, and at the end of the summer, they're going to be gifts for chiefs and people with knowledge at an upcoming pull, raising the century list as always kind of wanted to come back. and as i got older, it became clear that i really wanted to participate in the height of art and i just worked my way. and finally i decided to ask a few people if i could work with them. and luckily christian had projects for me to do, and i was able to actually move home. danielle studied art in ottawa, i would like to had a female training in the program that would be focused on getting females back into the arts and empowering on women would be a really great step because height of women are powerful and they need to hone their their skills, i think the morning then you know, tips looking good your say another the color, well me to learn a simple, let's see a law school or let's see grisly.

christian, who knows? but _ the realtruth here? christian, who knows?what i _ the realtruth here? christian, who knows? but what i hear _ the realtruth here? christian, who knows? but what i hear is - the realtruth here? christian, who knows? but what i hear is first - the realtruth here? christian, who knows? but what i hear is first of l knows? but what i hear is first of all, hamas are not directly involved in the negotiations. people went to cairo to be told what was the outcome of the negotiations going on between the israeli security chiefs, the qatari prime minister, the egyptians and the americans. now they are told that — what we've learned is that what came out of these talks was a change from what was agreed on the 2nd ofjuly — and thatis was agreed on the 2nd ofjuly — and that is that they are now saying the israelis are putting forward two unacceptable conditions not only to them, but also one of them is certainly unacceptable, i'm told, to the egyptians. and they want to keep control of the philadelphia corridor, giving them complete contr

it's a kind of christian empire. and not just an american empire.and i think a lot of that comes from the fact that this american outreach to the of the world happens in this european imperial moment of a century between the 1830, 1840s and the 1930s, 1940s, a lot scholars of american empire have, of course, couched the rise of american empire in terms of the european experience and what the europeans done in the rest of the world. and i think emily is providing a different perspective on this. this rich and really interesting. the other point i wanted to draw out that i think gayle has already talked about in better ways than i could, is notion of missionaries as imperialists, but as a different kind of imperialist and projecting a different kind of empire. in the book, emily says that quote, missionaries could be a major asset or a major hindrance to the work of american empire or the projection american power abroad and. of course, they could be both. and that's what that's what what they could be both simultaneously. and that's what emily's book