The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power

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by Jeff Sharlet


  European fascism and, 121, 130–33

  Merwin Hart and, 189–90

  Arthur Langlie and, 114–21

  New Deal reversal and, 141–43

  theocracy and, 121–24 (see also theocracy)

  Abram Vereide’s labor-management reconciliation and, 137–41

  American fundamentalism

  Cold War anticommunism and (see Cold War anticommunism)

  defined, 3–4, 393n

  Jonathan Edwards and (see Edwards,

  Jonathan) elite vs. populist, 7–9 (see also elite fundamentalism; populist fundamentalism)

  Family/Fellowship as the avantgarde of, 2–5 (see also Family/Fellowship)

  fascism and (see American fascism; German fascism)

  Charles Grandison Finney and (see Finney, Charles Grandison)

  Jesus Christs of, 5 (see also Jesus Christ)

  myths of liberalism vs., 371, 386–87

  politics and (see democracy; politics; theocracy)

  Popular Front culture war of, 287–90 (see also Christian educational movement; New Life Church; sexual purity movement)

  suffering, salvation, deliverance, and, 370–87

  Abram Vereide and (see Vereide, Abraham [Abram])

  Americans United for Separation of Church and State, 265

  American Values, 259

  Anderson, Lisa, 319–21

  Angleton, James Jesus, 206

  Angola, 222

  anti-abortion crusade. See abortion issue

  anticommunism. See Cold War anticommunism

  anti-intellectualism, 172–73, 347

  anti-Semitism. See also German fascism; Jewish people

  Bruce Barton on Hitler’s, 136

  Christian Embassy and, 353

  Gustav Adolf Gedat’s, 164

  Merwin Hart’s, 124, 412n

  Abram Vereide and Henry Ford’s, 122–24

  anti-sex trafficking legislation, 274–75

  anxious bench, 80–83

  Apelian, Bill, 342

  Apostolidis, Paul, 234, 421n

  Arafat, Yasir, 245

  arap Moi, Daniel, 281–82

  Arendt, Hannah, 144, 386

  Armenia, 267

  Armstrong, O. K., 168, 411n

  Arterburn, Stephen, 330–31

  Ashcroft, John, 21, 258, 380–81, 385

  authoritarianism, American. See American fascism avant-garde, 3, 122

  Azerbaijan, 266–67

  Baker, James, 25, 46, 58

  Baker, Susan, 273

  Bakke, Dennis, 23, 273, 397n

  Bakke, Eileen, 273, 329

  Bakker, Jim, 322

  Barre, Siad, 222, 279–84

  Barton, Bruce, 133–37, 141–42

  Barton, David, 342

  Batista, Fulgencio, 184–85

  Bauer, Gary, 259, 381–82

  Beck, Dave, 99–100, 119

  Begin, Menachem, 24

  Bell, James F., 21, 227–28

  Benham, Flip, 357–58, 363–65

  Benin, 28

  Bennett, Charles E., 199, 204

  Bermuda retreat, 32

  Bevere, Lisa, 333–34

  Bible

  biblical scholarship and, 135

  biblical worldview and, 350

  Sam Brownback and, 267–68

  murderers in, 222

  smuggling, 185–86, 306–7

  biblical capitalism. See also capitalism

  Doug Coe and, 217

  faith-based initiatives, 382–83

  Henry Ford and, 122–23

  Ted Haggard and, 304–7

  religious market economics and, 312–15

  theonomy as, 191

  Abram Vereide and, 104–5

  Billy Graham Center Archives, 60–61

  Billy Graham Crusade, 152

  Black, Hugo, 361

  Black Buffers, 238–39

  Blob, The (film), 181–83, 204

  Bob Jones University Press, 342, 428n

  Body of Christ, 21, 255–56

  Bratt, James D., 429n

  Brazil, 24, 222

  breakfast meetings. See National Prayer Breakfast; prayer breakfast meetings

  Bredesen, Harald, 186

  Brewster, Ralph, 138

  Bridges, Harry, 99–109, 120, 203, 289

  Bright, Bill, 216, 225–27, 353, 380

  Broger, John C., 155, 202–4

  brotherhood, 40–41, 216, 254

  Brownback, Sam, 260–72

  career of, and Values Action Team, 263–69

  Catholicism of, 261–63

  Hillary Clinton’s collaboration with, 274–75

  diplomacy of, 269–70

  Family/Fellowship and, 18, 20

  Republican revolution and, 260–61

  sexual purity movement and, 328

  Brown v. Board of Education case, 361

  Bryan, William Jennings, 5, 236

  Buchman, Frank, 124–30, 134, 154, 178, 405n, 406n

  Burns, Arthur, 230

  Burton, Linda and Aaron Michael, 307–9

  Bush, George H. W., 25–26, 58, 223

  Bush, George W., 22, 58–59, 294–95, 379–86

  business, 122, 133–37. See also capitalism; management

  Buthelezi, Mangosuthu, 24, 242

  Byrnes, Jimmy, 159

  Cabaniss, Ed, 189–90

  Campus Crusade, 152, 216, 225–27, 247, 353, 362, 380 396n

  Capehart, Homer, 168–69, 176, 215

  capitalism. See also management

  biblical (see biblical capitalism)

  Dwight Eisenhower and, 185

  Ted Haggard and, 304–7

  labor unions and, 99–108

  religious market economics and, 312–15

  theocracy and, 382–83

  Abram Vereide on, 190

  Carlson, Bengt, 2, 17, 30–32, 36, 47–51

  Carlson, Frank, 155, 174, 186–98, 200, 204–5, 215, 219–20, 263–64, 408n

  Carmichael, Stokely, 238

  Carter, Jimmy, 24, 367, 400n Carter, John, 354

  Casanova, Carlos Eugenios Vides, 25

  Caslen, Bob, 354

  Castle Mainau conference, 174–77

  Castro, Fidel, 184–85, 380, 413n

  Catholicism, 97, 261–62, 269, 307, 323, 381

  Catton, Jack, 354

  Cedars

  author’s prayer meeting at, 32–33

  Hillary Clinton at, 272–73

  Doug Coe and, 26

  Ivanwald and, 6, 15–16 (see also Ivanwald)

  prayer meetings at, 27–29, 53, 245, 251, 398n (see also prayer breakfast meetings)

  theology of, 45

  celibacy. See sexual purity movement

  cells (core groups). See also prayer groups

  Frank Buchman, Abram Vereide, and inspiration for, 127–29

  Family/Fellowship and, 19–20, 44–47

  foreign politics and, 162

  New Life Church and, 305–7, 313–15

  nonpartisan politics of, 385

  Chambliss, Saxby, 310

  charitable choice concept, 381

  chastity. See sexual purity movement

  Chavez, Hugo, 413n

  Chile, 248, 422–23n

  China, 28, 267–68

  Christ. See Jesus Christ

  Christian (term), 2, 13–14, 19, 29–30, 51, 83, 310

  Christian Democratic Union (CDU), 178–80

  Christian educational movement, 336–69

  author’s prayer meeting experience and, 339, 356–69

  church/state separation issue and, 336–39, 356–60

  home schooling, unschooling, providential history and, 339–45, 428n

  Stonewall Jackson and, 351–56

  Jewish history and, 360–64

  religious influences in American history, 364–69

  Rousas John Rushdoony’s Christian Reconstructionism and, 347–51

  Vision Forum educational materials and, 345–47

  Christian Embassy, 156–57, 353–54, 430–31nr />
  Christianity, 5, 16, 50, 134, 179. See also American fundamentalism; Catholicism; Protestantism; religion

  Christian Legal Society, 275

  Christian Reconstructionism, 347

  Christian Right, 44, 132, 222–23, 295, 337, 347, 383, 431n

  church (term), 4, 213, 255, 374

  churches, 15, 73, 83. See also church/state separation issue; New Life

  Church church/state separation issue

  Christian educational movement and, 336–39, 356–60

  Dwight Eisenhower and, 199–200

  Hillary Clinton and, 275

  faith-based initiatives and, 379–86

  Family/Fellowship secrecy and, 245

  providential history and, 356–57

  Earl Warren on, 199

  Clay, Lucius D., 158

  Cleaver, Eldridge, 240

  Clinton, Bill, 276–77, 392–93

  Clinton, Hillary, 260, 272–77

  Coats, Dan, 242, 381, 418n

  Coburn, Tom, 18, 264–65, 404n

  Coe, David, 35–38, 243

  Coe, Doug

  African Americans and, 237–40

  authoritarianism and, 30, 216–17, 254–55

  James Baker and, 25

  Sam Brownback and, 264–65

  Hillary Clinton and, 272–73

  Charles Colson and, 231–33, 235

  on churches, 213

  on covenants, 29–30

  on domestic politics, 198

  education of, 210–11

  as Family/Fellowship leader, 8, 21–22, 208–18 (see also Family/Fellowship)

  Mark Hatfield and, 211–212

  internationalism of, 218–24 (see also foreign politics)

  on Jesus plus nothing theology, 30, 42, 58, 121, 252–56, 380 (see also

  Jesus plus nothing theology)

  David Kuo’s meeting with, 380

  National Prayer Breakfast and, 22–26 (see also National Prayer Breakfast)

  power of, 21–26, 214, 259–60

  prayer bet of, 244

  on social order, 371

  Somalia case and, 281–82

  spiritual warfare and, 213–14

  as stealth persuader, 92

  submergence strategy of, 223–24

  Dawson Trotman and, 210–11

  visit to Ivanwald by, 51–55

  Coe, Jan, 213

  Coe, Jonathan, 281–82

  Cold War anticommunism. See also communism

  The Blob film and, 181–83

  containment policy and, 162

  missionaries and, 413n

  Robert Taft and, 192–94

  Abram Vereide, German fascism, and, 150–52 (see also German fascism)

  Abram Vereide’s vision of international spiritual war as, 152–55 (see also foreign politics)

  Colson, Charles W.

  Born Again memoir of, 7, 228, 424–25n

  Sam Brownback and, 269–70

  career and conversion of, 227–33

  Christian worldview and, 342–43, 384, 429n

  Hillary Clinton and, 274–75

  on Family/Fellowship numbers, 20

  influence of, 240, 259, 379

  Prison Fellowship of, 22, 233–36

  communism. See also Cold War anticommunism

  Harry Bridges and, 102

  Frank Buchman and, 129

  cells and, 19–20, 45, 306–7

  Suharto slaughter of Indonesian communists, 221, 245–52

  Abram Vereide and, 99, 139, 157

  Community Bible Study, 22

  compassionate conservatism, 233, 236–40, 258

  Compassion International, 295

  Congress, U. S. See also politics anti-union legislation and, 141–43 Sam Brownback in (see Brownback, Sam)

  Frank Carlson and, 186–95 (see also Carlson, Frank)

  Family/Fellowship members in, 6, 15–16, 18–19, 138–40, 142, 148, 168–70, 185, 198–99, 247, 264, 276, 395, 396, 399–400n, 416n

  Hillary Clinton in, 260, 272–77

  postwar Nazi reconciliation and, 168–74, 177–78

  Prayer Breakfast meetings with members of, 138–41 (see also National Prayer Breakfast; Prayer Breakfast meetings)

  Conlan, John, 353

  Connally, Jeff, 17–18, 30, 33–35, 38–42, 282–83

  conservatism. See also Republicans

  compassionate, 233, 236–40, 258

  liberalism vs., 182 (see also liberalism)

  neoconservatism, 183, 267

  Abram Vereide’s elite fundamentalism and, 112–13

  Constitution, U. S., 339, 348

  containment policy, 162, 182. See also Cold War anticommunism

  Cook, Roy, 33, 210

  Coonley, Howard, 138–39, 189–90

  Cooper, Dan, 354

  Cooper, Merian, 203–4

  core groups. See cells (core groups)

  Corey, Lewis, 287

  Costa Rica, 220–21

  covenants, 29–30, 44, 54–55, 255

  Crocker, Chester A., 54

  Cromartie, Michael, 23

  Crosby, Kenneth M., 184–85

  C Street House, 29–30, 259, 276–77

  Cuba, 184–85, 413n culture war, 227–28, 236, 287–90. See also Christian educational movement; New Life Church; Popular Front; sexual purity movement

  Curtis, Carl, 18

  Dague, Paul B., 142

  Daubenmire, Dave, 356–57

  Declaration of Independence, U. S., 339, 343

  Deism, 366

  DeLay, Tom, 265, 430, 431

  DeMint, Jim, 18

  democracy

  Konrad Adenauer and, 179

  Frank Buchman and, 128–29

  deliverance and, 387

  history of American secular, 337–39

  Ivanwald brothers and, 40

  Arthur Langlie and, 122

  theocracy vs., 6–7, 277–78, 366–69 (see also theocracy)

  Democrats. See also liberalism

  Family/Fellowship and, 18–19, 190

  Arthur Langlie and, 122

  Denning, Michael, 287

  deregulation, 142

  desire, 50–51, 373–74, 386

  de Tocqueville, Alexis, 341

  Dewey, John, 376

  dictators, Doug Coe and, 222

  Diem, Ngo Dinh, 199

  DiIulio, John, 380–81

  disobedience. See obedience

  Dobson, James, 259, 295

  Domenici, Pete, 18

  domestic politics, 181–204, 257–84

  The Blob film and, 181–83

  Bill Bright, Campus Crusade, and, 225–27

  Sam Brownback and, 260–72

  Frank Carlson and Dwight Eisenhower’s presidential election, 183–95

 

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