A powerful lineup of scholars and thinkers attempt to answer, once and for all, a question that has been central to our era’s bruising culture wars: Is America a Christian nation? Not surprisingly, the evidence for the affirmative is wanting.

Why would the black church cite scripture to exclude gays when a similar approach to the Bible was used to enslave their ancestors?

Have you ever been tempted?

Christianity in some form will continue in the USA for quite awhile yet – at least as long as people want or need to:

• a) avoid thinking about their own mortality,
• b) avoid taking complete responsibility for their lives, and
• c) exploit the people in categories a and b.