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If It Were Me, I'd Try Not Helping the Christian Nationalists

March 8th, 2024 | 24 min read

By Jake Meador

A recent Politico piece profiled the so-called "Christian Nationalist" movement, in particular focusing on William Wolfe, a former Southern Baptist Theological Seminary student and Trump administration staffer.

What marks Christian Nationalism according to the reporters, and what are Wolfe's chief concerns? According to the piece, the key issues are overturning Obergefell, restricting abortion access, and, horror of horrors apparently, requiring fathers to support their children.

As if needing to double down, one of the authors went on MSNBC to say, in not so many words, that Thomas Jefferson is apparently a Christian Nationalist:

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Jake Meador

Jake Meador is the editor-in-chief of Mere Orthodoxy. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Commonweal, First Things, Books & Culture, The Dispatch, National Review, Comment, Christianity Today, and Plough. He lives in his hometown of Lincoln, NE with his wife and four children.