And we are back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.

I'm Matt Kittle's senior elections correspondent at The Federalist and your experience

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Our guest today is John Wilsey, John B. Wilsey, Professor of Church History and Philosophy

and chair of the church history department at the

Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He also serves as senior fellow at the Center for Religion,

culture, and democracy, an initiative of the First Liberty Institute. Today we've discussed

John's new book, Religious Freedom, a Conservative Primer.

This is very timely and very historical at the same time.

And I love it when the Twain meet.

John, thank you so much for joining us in this edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.

I'm thrilled to be here with you, Matt.

Thanks so much.

It's a fascinating book and a

fascinating look over the history of this country and so very relevant today. This is shocking,

reading in your book, but maybe it's not all that surprising in the times in which we live.

Patriotism and religion have sharply declined since 1998,

when 70% of Americans considered patriotism to be very important.

In 2003, just 38% believed the same.

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