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How MAGA Evangelicals Corrupted Christianity
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Wisdom Weavers Of The World
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Overload: America's Toxic Love Story (2019)
The Occupation of the American Mind: Israel's Public Relations War in the United States (2016)
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To The Ends of the Earth (2016)
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