Table of Contents
Foreword ix
Introduction: This Trump Is Your Trump xiii
Part I
1 Luck and Pluck 3
2 Making Augsburg Great Again 8
3 Mother Mary Comes to Queens 19
4 Back to the Future Presbyterians 32
5 City on a Jamaican Hill 44
6 Hindenburg 53
7 We Have Confirmation 64
8 The Church for Spock Babies 70
9 The Power of Positive Thinking 79
10 Manhattan, Malaise, and Morning hi America 97
11 The Man Who Has Everything 110
12 Prospereality 122
Part II
13 The Escalator 141
14 What Is Your Relationship with God? 146
15 The B-I-B-L-E. Yes, That's the Book for Me 157
16 Pentecostals, Prayer, and Dinner at the Polo 166
17 Mr. Cyrus Meets Wrecking Ball 171
18 3 Wings, 2 Corinthians, and February 1 177
19 Pat, the Pope, and the Palmetto State Primary 187
20 #NeverTrump 195
21 Coalesce or Two Evils? 201
22 Cleveland Rocks … and Prays 213
23 Pastors and Pews 223
24 What the Hell Do You Have to Lose? 232
25 What Happens in Vegas 245
26 The Art of the Unreal 259
27 Gorsuch a Time as This 270
28 You've Got a Friend in Me 281
29 Riyadh, Jerusalem, and Rome 290
30 Give Me Liberty 300
Acknowledgments 319
Notes 321
Index 357