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Podcast: Book Friends Forever
Episode: Chosen Land by Matthew Avery Sutton Read by Jeffrey Machado
Description: A sweeping history of Christianity in America, from the arrival of the first Europeans to the political triumphs of evangelicalism, showing the powerful, singular role the faith has always played in American public life.
“Fast-paced and lucidly written … Required reading for anyone who wants to understand American religion, and for anyone who wants to understand America.” —Kristin Kobes Du Mez, New York Times–bestselling author of Jesus and John Wayne
In the United States today, there is no faith more dominant than Christianity. In Chosen Land, historian Matthew Avery Sutton chronicles Christians’ five-hundred-year endeavor to turn North America into their version of t...