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Institute for Tolerance Studies Director Ron Duncan Hart has recently published the book, Evangelicals and MAGA: The Politics of Grievance a Half Century in the Making, available on Amazon. For more information, go to www.evangelicalsandmaga.org.

Be sure to read Ron's essay, "Jews and Christian Nationalism" in our Issue 2 here. There is also a link (at the end of the essay) to his Op-ed published in the Baptist News Global that has a 4 million member circulation.

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