American Christian Nationalism and Its Impact on Democracy

Join the AFN community for a 75 to 90-minute webinar series engaging with a number of National and Local Faith Leaders, Historians, Museums, and Movement workers to explore the impacts of American Christian Nationalism and its impacts on this great democracy.

Between February and October 2024, this particular webinar series is broken down into 75 to 90-minute webinars that include some of the following: history, exegesis of scripture, historical analysis of its impacts on our democracy, the psychology of nationalism, an exploration of rituals, liturgy, music, and more - followed by a Q&A and group discussion.

July 16 Title: “All Nations, One Blood: How Abolitionists, Martin Luther King, and Fannie Lou Hamer Seized the Same Biblical Passage to Argue for Racial Equality and Undercut Nationalism”

Presenter: Keith D. Miller

Starting in the Eighteenth Century and continuing for three hundred years, British abolitionists, American abolitionists, Martin Luther King, and Fannie Lou Hamer all brandished the same scripture, Acts 17:26 (“God has made of one blood all people of all nations”), to crusade against white supremacy and undermine nationalism. This argument coheres with the Biblical origin story of Adam and Eve as the two ancestors of all humanity and also with the insistence of Charles Darwin (in contrast to other scientists) that all humans share common ancestors and that racial differences are, therefore, superficial.