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I'm Pete N. And I'm Jared Baez.

It's July, so of course that means us Americans are thinking about America, so why not have a class about it?

Dr. Jemar Tisby, author of the New York Times bestselling book, The Color of Compromise,

is teaching our July class called American Christianity. How did we get here?

So mark your calendars for July 24th from 8 to 9.30 p.m. Eastern Time,

when Jamar will walk us through the history of how Christianity in the U.S. got tangled up with race, power, and very relevantly politics.

How do we get the religious right in its marriage to the MAGA movement?

How have black Christians been a part of the story from the beginning?

It's pay what you can until the class ends, and after that, it's $25.

And if you can't make it live, no worries,

you can buy it now and watch it back later at your convenience. Head to the Bible for normal people

dot com front slash American Christianity to sign up. And if you want to warm up, our class

One Nation Under God with Dr. Samuel Perry on Christian nationalism is available now for purchase, and we're giving it to you

for $10 off for the month of July with code July 25.

So head to the Bible for normal people.com front slash one nation to purchase that recording,

and then don't forget to sign up for the July 24th class with Jamar Tisbee called

American Christianity. How do we get here by going to

the Bible for normal people.com front slash American Christianity? Hey folks on today's episode,

it's just us and we're asking the question, is the Bible important anymore? Yeah, we're going to

take a couple of different approaches of this. So we want to look at that question in particular,

is the Bible important anymore? But then we want to give a little historical context,

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