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Episode: The Sunday Interview: How Christianity Shaped America: Matthew Avery Sutton on Power, Evangelicals, and the âChosen Landâ
Description: âIn this Sunday Interview, Bradley Onishi sits down with historian Matthew Avery Sutton to discuss his sweeping new book Chosen Land. Sutton argues that from the colonial era onward, Americans have pursued a centuries-long project to transform North America into a âholy landâ that could usher in Godâs millennial kingdom. Paradoxically, the foundersâ decision to create a secular Constitution and protect religious freedom through the First Amendment helped fuel the explosive growth and innovation of American Christianity. Without a state church, religious leaders became entrepreneursâcompeting for followers through media, technology, and spectacleâhelping make the United States far more publi...