PITTSFIELD, Mass — The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Berkshire Community College will present "The Un-Separation of Church and State," a conversation with the Rev. Dr. Brian Kaylor and Doug Mishkin on Kaylor's book "Baptizing America: How Mainline Protestants Helped Build Christian Nationalism."

 

The talk will be held via Zoom on Thursday, Nov. 20, at 7 p.m.

 

This event is free and open to the public. To register, visit https://berkshireolli.org/event-6354850.  

 

Kaylor, a Baptist minister with a doctorate in political communication and an award-winning author, is president and editor-in-chief of Word & Way, an online religion news site. He is the author or coauthor of seven books, including "Baptizing America: How Mainline Protestants Helped Build Christian Nationalism" (co-authored with Beau Underwood), described as "an urgent examination and an enlightening critique exposing the dangerous undercurrents of Christian Nationalism." His writings have been published by CNN, Houston Chronicle, Religion News Service, Sojourners, Washington Post, and other outlets. He writes regularly about religion and politics at A Public Witness. 

 

Mishkin is a singer-songwriter, speaker and interviewer, frequently teaching OLLI courses. He is best known for "Woody's Children," his song celebrating the legacy of Woody Guthrie. This past spring, Mishkin interviewed professor Edward J. Larson for the Berkshire OLLI chapter on Larson's Pulitzer Prize-winning book about the Scopes Monkey Trial. He has worked with Americans United for Separation of Church and State.