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When Brian Kaylor and I set out to write Baptizing America, I feared the book wouldn’t find an audience. Not only did we lambast Christians on the far right for their fusing of religious and national identities, but we focused on the uncomfortable truth that mainline and progressive followers of Jesus deserved a lot of the blame as well. We leveled a critique against our natural allies, leaving few sympathetic audiences left to find the book worthy of their attention.