church. if you are a missouri synod lutheran, this sounds very familiar to you. this is a southern presbyterian who is arguing for a of two kingdom theology or what's called in presbyterian circles, often a doctrine of the spirituality of the church. there are certain which the government or its people give attention to, and there are certain things which are to be cared for by the church and the church and the state are both strongest. they continue strictly their respective provinces. i have i go off on this tangent. i have good friends of who who argue that separation of church and state is a much more. development like second half of the 20th century in our jurisprudence and, so on. but there plenty of people talking about the importance, the vital importance of the institutional separation of church and state. and it's coming from the clergy it's not coming from secular is saying we got to keep these two things separate because religion is so dangerous to the state. no, it's the clergy themselves theologically very conservative who are saying these are two di

kay king: the visitation was at the lutheran church.people lined up down the block waiting to get in because jan was so liked and respected in the community. it was a long, long day and-- but it was heartwarming or that many people cared-- cared about her and about her family and chris and isaac and bailey to come pay their respects to her. the whole town was probably, pretty upset. yes. and she'd lived here all of her life, so she knew a lot of people. they had good things to say about her. keith morrison: and so, there was a respectful pause. and then a couple of days later, chris kruse was once again at the sheriff's office with senior special agent woodford. keith morrison: some things had been bothering woodford. like, why chris said he'd only heard one gunshot when, obviously, there had been two? keith morrison: but that first slug, the one he said he did not hear, agent woodford explained to chris that one would have hit him had he been lying in bed beside jan as he said he was. keith morrison: then agent woodford told chris that

tiller for years, walked into the lobby of reformation lutheran church in wichita, where dr. tiller worshiped with his family. on a day when dr. tiller was serving as an usher for his fellow worshipers. he up to dr. tiller, who was having a donut and a cup of coffee. his fellow ushers and shot tiller in the temple. died instantly. bill o'reilly has dr. tiller's blood on, his hands on. november on november 2015. robert dear jr muttering, quote, no more baby arrived at the planned parenthood center in colorado springs, colorado, before he was finally captured by the police. one police officer at one civilian were dead and nine other people were injured, including five police officers and four civilians. do describe himself as a warrior for babies. the event followed a sequence of hearing conducted by representative marsha blackburn, who came after me using anti-abortion videos and falsely accusing planned parenthood centers of selling baby parts. this is called slow terrorism. the outbreak of unpredictable, random terrorism and directed violence as the result of encouragement o

to the geography of the book and the cultural geography of the book is that traditional churches such as the lutheran one, in which i raised and that i write about are dying. while megachurches to grow and continue to their numbers. well, so many megachurches have become citadels of christian nationalism, whereas the corner communal charitable church is struggling for members. so that's made american christianity much more aggressive, much more exclusionary, and much hostile in its political posture and its social comportment. yeah, and i should say that most megachurches are in exurbia. that's that started for very practical reasons. the land was cheap and there open spaces. it hard. it would be hard to build mega church in the middle of. yeah in the middle of chicago or a densely populated suburb. but they could build in an exurbia. but then there's another symbiosis at work in that these megachurches then act as a magnet for people to move to those towns because some of the megachurch members are very devoted and they they're not only on sunday but for mid-week and bible classes. so they move to t

separation of church and state means that state has no set religion. you are not a catholic, you are not a lutheranation of church and state says the state doesn't have influence on the church and the church doesn't have influence, but you want to have morality in the right place. it is not one religion, not one type of religion. that's what it's talking about. mr. piepkorn: now, mr. coachman, there you go again. mr. coachman: there i go again. mr. piepkorn: we are going to have the 10 commandments and every religion's major points that they believe in. in every classroom. that's not going to happen. >> you will get a chance to rebut. congressman armstrong -- government is bad at it. rep. armstrong: i don't want to have this debate. in the vast majority of communities in north carolina, the church is part of the fabric of the community. when you start saying if you are going to have the 10 commandments, you have to have the koran, the buddhists. let's teach reading, math, and civics. teach them theology. north dakota has the oldest mosque in the country. that's fascinating. people in north dakota d