Manufacturing and Misidentifying Christian Nationalism

On January 6, 2021, I was flying home from a speaking engagement. During my layover, I received an email from a freelance journalist who was writing a story about "Christian imagery used by the protesters who stormed the Capitol building today." She sent me five images to review, two that were not from the Capitol Hill riot, two from the riot that featured the same Pine Tree Flag (a Revolutionary Era flag that contains the words "An Appeal to Heaven"), and the now-infamous photo of a Goth with skeletal hands holding a Bible.