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