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Gina Messina takes the hot button political issues of our time and weaves them together with partisan talking points and actual Biblical stories and admonitions. This refreshing take on contemporary American struggles gives the best clear-eyed call to be Christian that I've read. This is a needed antidote to current anguish. - Sr. Simone Campbell, Nuns on the Bus Journalists in America: stop asking Jerry Falwell Jr., Pat Robertson, Robert Jeffress, and Franklin Graham to represent Christianity in the political realm. Instead, ask Gina Messina, author of Jesus in the White House. Her new book is delightfully written with both theological and political savvy. The voice you've been waiting for. Highly recommended! - Brian D. McLaren, Author of The Great Spiritual Migration Scholarship with a cheeky edge. Serious questions served with a side of humor. And Jesus in the West Wing. Gina Messina considers intriguing possibilities for a new politics. - Tom Roberts, National Catholic Reporter As someone sentenced to Russian labour camps for singing a song in a church, I have experienced a society that claims to worship Christ but does not live out the teachings of Jesus. I've seen how the Bible has been used hypocritically to justify conservative oligarchic political order with the goal of extracting money from the people and make the poor people poorer. Jesus is an anarchist and revolutionary, I say. And that's why Gina Messina's book should be on the must-read shelf. - Nadya Tolokonnikova, Pussy Riot The data on how different categories of Christians voted in the 2016 Presidential election are frankly baffling. Gina Messina unpacks the issues in a cogent way in her book. My hope is that what seems so obvious - that the example of Jesus calls all Christians to care about divisions and suffering and to act on it - will, as Gina presents the case, spark some soul searching and genuine debate and action. - Katherine Marshall, Ph.D., Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs A new work by clearly one of the most creative scholars in the US today. Messina continues to explore the impact of religion in public life here in the US, and especially how it affects the lives of women. In Jesus in the White House: Make Humanity Great Again, she clearly demonstrates that so many policies of the country that boast a wall of separation between church and state (Jefferson) are now governed by an administration whose policies are crafted by a distortion of Christian teaching, which curiously the majority of both Catholic and Evangelical voters find appealing. A must read for anyone who wants to understand the state of the political question in the US today. - Don C. Benjamin, Ph.D., Arizona State University

Gina Messina takes the hot button political issues of our time and weaves them together with partisan talking points and actual Biblical stories and admonitions. This refreshing take on contemporary American struggles gives the best clear-eyed call to be Christian that I've read. This is a needed antidote to current anguish. - Sr. Simone Campbell, Nuns on the Bus Journalists in America: stop asking Jerry Falwell Jr., Pat Robertson, Robert Jeffress, and Franklin Graham to represent Christianity in the political realm. Instead, ask Gina Messina, author of Jesus in the White House. Her new book is delightfully written with both theological and political savvy. The voice you've been waiting for. Highly recommended! - Brian D. McLaren, Author of The Great Spiritual Migration Scholarship with a cheeky edge. Serious questions served with a side of humor. And Jesus in the West Wing. Gina Messina considers intriguing possibilities for a new politics. - Tom Roberts, National Catholic Reporter As someone sentenced to Russian labour camps for singing a song in a church, I have experienced a society that claims to worship Christ but does not live out the teachings of Jesus. I've seen how the Bible has been used hypocritically to justify conservative oligarchic political order with the goal of extracting money from the people and make the poor people poorer. Jesus is an anarchist and revolutionary, I say. And that's why Gina Messina's book should be on the must-read shelf. - Nadya Tolokonnikova, Pussy Riot The data on how different categories of Christians voted in the 2016 Presidential election are frankly baffling. Gina Messina unpacks the issues in a cogent way in her book. My hope is that what seems so obvious - that the example of Jesus calls all Christians to care about divisions and suffering and to act on it - will, as Gina presents the case, spark some soul searching and genuine debate and action. - Katherine Marshall, Ph.D., Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs A new work by clearly one of the most creative scholars in the US today. Messina continues to explore the impact of religion in public life here in the US, and especially how it affects the lives of women. In Jesus in the White House: Make Humanity Great Again, she clearly demonstrates that so many policies of the country that boast a wall of separation between church and state (Jefferson) are now governed by an administration whose policies are crafted by a distortion of Christian teaching, which curiously the majority of both Catholic and Evangelical voters find appealing. A must read for anyone who wants to understand the state of the political question in the US today. - Don C. Benjamin, Ph.D., Arizona State University

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Gina Messina, Ph.D. is an American feminist scholar, Catholic theologian, author, and activist. She is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Ursuline College and co-founder of FeminismandReligion.com. Messina gives particular attention to the interconnection between gender, religion, and politics. Connect with her on her website at www.ginamessina.com.

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