Bible Nation: The United States of Hobby Lobby

The billionaire owners of Hobby Lobby, a huge nationwide chain of craft stores, the Greens came to national attention in 2014 after successfully suing the federal government over their religious objections to provisions of the Affordable Care Act. How the billionaire owners of Hobby Lobby are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to make America a “Bible nation”Like many evangelical Christians, the Green family of Oklahoma City believes that America was founded on a “biblical worldview as a Christian nation.” But the Greens are far from typical evangelicals in other ways. What is less widely known is that the Greens are now America’s biggest financial supporters of Christian causesand they are spending hundreds of millions of dollars in an ambitious effort to increase the Bible’s influence

Baden is professor of Hebrew Bible at the Yale Divinity School. Candida R. . His books include The Historical David: The Real Life of an Invented Hero (HarperOne). MossEdward Cadbury Professor of Theology at the University of Birmingham and the author of, among other books, The Myth of Persecution: How Early Christians Invented a Dangerous Legacy (HarperOne). Joel S

"Two biblical scholars combine to dig into the actions and words of the billionaire Green family, founders of the Hobby Lobby chain of craft stores. Throughout the book, however, they also show the Greens as naïve or disingenuous. Moss and Baden portray the Green family members and their key executives as sincere evangelicals and benevolent employers. Impressive Well-positioned to examine the impact of religion on secular life."--Kirkus. Rather, they are promoting a historically inaccurate saga of the U.S. To be sure, the family's proselytizing is not neutral. as an exclusionary Christian nation meant to marry church and state