And the Hello and

welcome to Serious Inquiries Only this is episode 439. I'm your host Thomas Smith and today

Ooh got an interesting one for you. We're speaking with Catherine Stewart, journalist and author, who has written some books, one of which has been made into him the film God and Country, which I know just based on my Facebook feed.

Many of you have watched and enjoyed.

It's of course about the Christian right.

It's about Christian nationalism.

Catherine has done so much vital investigative journalism and writing on this.

And we're so lucky to have her.

I'm so glad she agreed to come on the show and talk about how she got into this.

Her first book on the topic, The Good News Club,

and then the Power Worshippers was the book that got made into God and country

by Rob Reiner among others.

She'll talk about it.

So I'm excited to get over to that.

First couple announcements.

For one, as usual, Patreon.com slash serious pod

is where you can support the show

and get the bonus stuff.

This month's bonus is gonna be a little different different but it was a ton of fun. So Dr. Brian Gillis,

astrophysicist, of course, got on to talk about another Ted Chang story called Amfallos. I forget exactly how you pronounce it, but it's something like that.

It's super interesting. It's the one about if Christian science was kind of true and like what the universe would look like.

It's a really cool story, but also we really we talked

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