--- title: Andrew Whitehead | TIME description: Whitehead (@ndrewwhitehead) is an Associate Professor of Sociology at IUPUI and author of the forthcoming book, American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church. He is co-author (with Samuel Perry) of the award-winning book Taking America Back for God: Christian Nationalism in the United States. canonical: https://time.com/author/andrew-whitehead-and-samuel-perry/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/andrew-whitehead-and-samuel-perry/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Andrew Whitehead ## Andrew Whitehead Whitehead (@ndrewwhitehead) is an Associate Professor of Sociology at IUPUI and author of the forthcoming book, [_American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church_](https://bakerbookhouse.com/products/492151)_._ He is co-author (with Samuel Perry) of the award-winning book [_Taking America Back for God: Christian Nationalism in the United States_](https://www.amazon.com/Taking-America-Back-God-Nationalism-dp-0197652573/dp/0197652573/ref=mt%5Fother?%5Fencoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1626112935). ## Andrew Whitehead *  Jan 5, 2024 ### [How We Can Confront the Myths of January 6](https://time.com/6552370/january-6-myths-christian-nationalism/) "Only contrition from Christians over January 6 will lead us to resist retribution as a political ca... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Oct 27, 2023 ### [Christian Nationalism Shapes Mike Johnson](https://time.com/6329207/speaker-mike-johnson-christian-nationalism/) Newly elected Speaker Mike Johnson embraces a Christian Nationalist view of the U.S. [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Nov 13, 2022 ### [Why White Christian Nationalism Isn’t Going Away](https://time.com/6233438/white-christian-nationalism-isnt-going-away/) Even after the Republican's midterm results, Christian nationalists will remain a force in American ... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Sep 26, 2022 ### [3 Threats Christian Nationalism Poses to the United States](https://time.com/6214724/christian-nationalism-threats-united-states/) Christian Nationalism is a growing movement that presents a dangerous threat to American democracy [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Jan 4, 2022 ### [Why More Christian Nationalist Violence Is Likely After Jan. 6](https://time.com/6132591/january-6th-christian-nationalism/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  May 27, 2021 ### [The Growing Threat of Christian Nationalism in the U.S.](https://time.com/6052051/anti-democratic-threat-christian-nationalism/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/andrew-whitehead-and-samuel-perry/","name":"Andrew Whitehead"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/andrew-whitehead-and-samuel-perry/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/andrew-whitehead-and-samuel-perry/"},"name":"Andrew Whitehead","jobTitle":null,"description":"Whitehead (@ndrewwhitehead) is an Associate Professor of Sociology at IUPUI and author of the forthcoming book, American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church. He is co-author (with Samuel Perry) of the award-winning book Taking America Back for God: Christian Nationalism in the United States.","url":"https://time.com/author/andrew-whitehead-and-samuel-perry/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```