Are faith and reason compatible? How do people of faith reconcile themselves to a secular world?

These are difficult and complex questions. Their impact on American history began long before the founding of the nation.

On this episode of The Road to Now, we sit down with Molly Worthen, assistant professor of history at UNC Chapel Hill.

Her book, Apostles of Reason,

The Crisis of Authority in American Evangelicalism,

chronicles the history of the evangelical movement in America

since the end of World War II. I'm Bob Crawford, and I'm Ben Sawyer, and this is the road to now.

Last week, you and I, Ben, had a chance to sit down with Molly Worthen.

She's an assistant professor of history.

She focuses on religious history.

She's at UNC Chapel Hill. She's contributed to professor of history. She focuses on religious history. She's at UNC Chapel Hill.

She's contributed to the New York Times, Slate, and to Time Magazine.

A really broad topic this week.

Yeah, evangelicalism in America, the history of it.

Yeah, and it has a long history, you know.

It's not just the years we think about, but, you know, the importance of, of Christianity and, and not

just evangelical history, but the unique types of Christianity that emerge in the United

States has a long history here and has tremendous influence, uh, as, as Molly argues, for,

for our politics today. Every aspect of our culture it's it's the

idea of of people of faith reconciling themselves to a secular world and and it really doesn't

matter which faith it is to be honest but in the in the United States, we are a majority Christian nation.

And like you said, we saw it this year in our election, in the 2016 election, we saw it

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