The Public Eye magazine has just posted my most recent article online.  I am posting a few excertps below (and more than the usual excerpts, since umm, its my article) but you will have to click over to The Public Eye to read the whole thing.

I take the view that it is important that we have a sufficient understanding of our own history, and an ability to articulate it (and its not as hard as it sounds, once you have a well-framed narrative -- four suggested books in the article) so that we can recapture the narrative of American history from the Christian nationalists whose views are seeping into public life and play a surprising role in electoral politics.

I address these points in the excerpts below, but there is much more in the whole article.

David Barton, a leading Christian nationalist, is barnstorming Ohio seeking to turn-out Christian Rightists of all sorts in the upcoming mid-term elections. For the past several election cycles, he has been paid by the Republican National Committee to help energize and mobilize conservative evangelicals, and this year is no exception.

The tour is sponsored by the Cincinatti-based Christian right group, Citizens for Community Values Action, headed by Phil Burress. All of the events are free and open to the public. Russell Johnson, who heads the Ohio Restoration Project, announced the tour to his statewide e-mail list.

David Barton, the notorious Christian historical revisionist and longtime Texas GOP activist, is once again barnstorming the nation on the payroll of the Republican National Committee. As he did in 2004, Barton is now speaking in churches on behalf of GOP candidates. This past weekend, Barton made appearances with Rep. Bobby Jindal (R-LA) in three Baptist churchesin the Louisiana congressman's district. According to Barton's speaking schedule on the web site of Wallbuilders, the organization he heads in Aledo, Texas, the churches were: Calvary Baptist Church, in Alexandria,  Cedar Crest Baptist Church, in West Monroe, and  First Baptist Church Bossier City, in Bossier City. For each of the three events, the contact listed is not the church, but Taylor Teepell, at the Jindal campaign. Jindal is being challenged this year by Democrat Stacey Tallitsch.

As in 2004, Barton's campaigning seems intended to be mostly "below the radar."  

Are you a domionionist?  I'll skip over formal definitions, but suffice to say that it's a general category of people who are theocrats -- or people who may be headed in that direction.

Given the way things are going, it's probably good to check ourselves every once in awhile -- just as a precaution. We did this early in the life of this site, and I think it is time to do it again.

Fortunately, there is a free online test.