Welcome to Sons of Patriarchy, a podcast devoted to understanding how men and women get caught up in the systems of patriarchy, Christian nationalism, and the far right.

For years, these have been on the French, but now they're mainstream.

They've come from places like Moscow, Idaho, and are influencing churches, families,

schools, marriages, and institutions across the country, and now in Washington, D.C.

Every Monday, I interview experts in the fields we focus on, whether they be authors,

reporters, other podcasters, academics, professors,

former members of these groups, and more.

Our companion podcast, they called her bitter, amplifies the stories of survivors and the

advocates who come around them, detailing how the ideas we talk about here impact real

lives. Because what was done in the dark

will be dragged in the light. Today we talk to Dr. Matthew D. Taylor, who is a prominent

public-facing religious study scholar, author and speaker specializing in American Christianity,

Christian nationalism, Christian extremism,

the new apostolic reformation, religious politics, interfaith relations, particularly Muslim

Christian dialogue, and was recently interviewed by Pamela Brown for CNN Special, The Rise of

Christian Nationalism. Currently, he serves as a visiting scholar at Georgetown

University's Center on Faith and Justice and is a senior scholar at the Institute for Islamic,

Christian, and Jewish Studies in Baltimore. Taylor is the author of Scripture People,

Salafi Muslims, and Evangelical Christians America,

the violent ticket by force, the Christian movement that is threatening our democracy,

and the forthcoming, defying tyrants.

He has created acclaim podcast series such as Charismatic Revival Fury and American Unexceptionalism,

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