Related to today's post from Frederick S. Lane, here's Jeff Sharlet talking about his book, The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power. Sharlet is also co-editor, with Peter Manseau, of Believer Beware: First-Person Dispatches from the Margins of Faith. If you can't see the video, click here.
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