Here to hear our talk by paul miller on his new book the religion of american greatness. I am mark tooley, president of the institute on, religion and democracy and of Providence Journal of christiana and American Foreign policy. We welcome all who are here, all who are this event live on, facebook and twitter and i, Audie Youtube all who will be watching this on cspan book tv. Were very grateful for the presence of their crew here this evening and. Look forward to the broadcast of this in the near future. Paul miller has been friend and contributor to our journal providence since its founding. He is a professor at georgetown. He served in the army and on the staff of the National Security council at the white house. His included time in afghanistan. He has been very outspoken on the issue of nationalism especially of Christian Nationalism which is very much a topic great conversation right now we did host several months ago yoram hazen, the israeli thinker whose book on nationalism, h
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This in the near future. Paul miller has been friend and contributor to our journal providence since its founding. He is a professor at georgetown. He served in the army and on the staff of the National Security council at the white house. His included time in afghanistan. He has been very outspoken on the issue of nationalism especially of Christian Nationalism which is very much a topic great conversation right now we did host several months ago yoram hazen, the israeli thinker whose book on nationalism, helped to found the movement. National conservatism. Yoram europe is very pro nationalism. Paul miller is a critic of nationalism, especially Christian Nationalism. So welcome this conversation. Paul will speak for 20 or 25 minutes, after which there will be plenty of time for question and comment. So paul, thank you so much for joining. And let me say that the book is here physically in the office for those who would like to buy it and i commend that to you. So paul, you. Thank you
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