The Busboys and Poets Sunday School Cafe
Date and Time
Apr 13, 2025 9:00 am
Location
14th & V
2021 14th St NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20009
Apr 13, 2025 9:00 am
14th & V
Today's guest speaker, Matthew D. Taylor will discuss Christian Nationalism, Christian Zionism, and the Threat to Democracy
Matthew D. Taylor is a religious studies scholar and expert in American Christianity, American Islam, Christian extremism, and religion and politics. His new book, The Violent Take It by Force: The Christian Movement that is Threatening Our Democracy, tracks how a network of Christian leaders called the New Apostolic Reformation was a major instigating force for the January 6th Insurrection and is currently reshaping the culture of the religious right in the U.S. He is also the creator, writer, and narrator of the Charismatic Revival Fury audio-documentary series on the Straight White American Jesus podcast. Taylor holds a PhD in religious studies and theology from Georgetown University and an MA in theology from Fuller Theological Seminary. He is currently Senior Christian Scholar at the Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies in Baltimore. He also serves as an associate fellow at the Center for Peace Diplomacy in New Orleans, where he works on preventing religion-related violence surrounding U.S. elections.
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Busboys and Poets Sunday School Café is a weekly informal interactive learning community featuring authors, activists, artists, film makers, journalists and other change makers to help us make sense of the world around us.
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