Extremely American

“I want people to hear the church members, in their own words … because their plans are pretty radical.”

A panel discussion with Christian leaders from across the political spectrum who oppose Christian nationalism.

Creationism is a fundamental idea in Christian nationalism and it could threaten science as we know it.

Heath and Jimmy travel to Kentucky to attend a kind of Christian nationalist festival in the shadow of a six-story replica of Noah's Ark. The gathering brings together leading Christian nationalist thinkers from around the country to compare notes on how to turn America into a theocracy.

Critics of Christ Church and Christian nationalism say the emphasis on women submitting to men fuels an underbelly of abuse. Emilie Paige Dye is an abuse survivor and she details what happened to her at a fundamentalist school and why she thinks her case was swept under the rug.

Helen Shores Peters is finished with headship. But she finds out that headship isn’t quite finished with her.

Helen Shores Peters was a true believer in patriarchal Christianity. She learned to be submissive to men in a fundamentalist school, got married at 20 and lived the life of an obedient wife for years. But eventually things started going terribly wrong.

Doug Wilson has gone from small town preacher to a leader in America’s Christian nationalist movement. Along the way he’s been equally good at attracting congregants and controversy. He’s never been shy about weighing in on divisive issues, but his take on slavery nearly got him chased out of town.

Christ Church is taking a novel approach to increasing their influence in Moscow. So far, they don't have the numbers to win elections, but they do have one resource: money. So the church and its members are buying up large swaths of the town. That's putting a lot of locals on edge.

In the season 2 premiere, of Extremely American: Pastor Doug Wilson leads Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho and he has a vision for the small college town: he wants to claim it for Jesus. And that's just the start. He and his allies want to make the whole country an explicitly Christian nation.