Tools for Your Congregation
This section gathers practical tools for pastors, worship leaders, and church members who want to understand Christian nationalism and think carefully about how it shows up in worship. Everything here is free to use and share with your congregation, staff, or small group.
A good place to start is with yourself. Take the short self-assessment to reflect on your own views, then use the bibliography and the rest of the site to go deeper.
Where Do You Stand?
A short, private self-assessment of eleven statements about faith and the nation. Mark how much you agree with each one and you will receive a score from 0 to 44, along with a description of where your views fall: Dissenter, Doubter, Affiliate, or Committed Supporter. It is an educational reflection tool, not a label, and your answers are not saved. The survey was developed by Cayden Norman Oakes, a Ph.D. student in sociology at North Carolina State University.
Bibliography
A curated list of books, articles, and scholarly resources on Christian nationalism and worship. It is organized around the three types of Christian nationalism the site describes (Covenant Nation, Dominionism, and Divine Order), along with a section of broader scholarly analysis. The list is updated as new books are released.
Worship From the White House: A Review
Rick Pidcock is a musician, former worship leader, columnist, and author of Weapons of Worship: How the Songs of Evangelicalism Form the Soundtrack of Extremism. In this review of Sean Feucht’s 2025 live album Worship From the White House, recorded at the White House, the U.S. Capitol, and Mar-a-Lago, Pidcock looks past the explicitly political songs to the ordinary worship songs on the album and asks how familiar lyrics about God’s reign and authority take on new meaning in the seats of government. He traces how Feucht’s framework merges the identity of ancient Israel with modern worshipers, and God’s authority with evangelical political power, and asks whether the result follows Jesus or re-embodies the empire that crucified him.
Put These Tools to Work
Liturgical Examples. Real worship services, prayers, and sermons, each analyzed by a scholar or pastor. Every example describes what happens in the service, what it hopes for the nation, and how it measures up against the four theologies of worship, then closes with questions for discussion. These work well as case studies for a staff meeting or class.
The Four Theologies of Worship. Dynamic Narrative, Eschatological, Trinitarian, and Christological. Each page explains one way of understanding Christian worship and offers diagnostic questions you can bring to any service, including your own.
Read about the four theologies →
More tools are on the way, including discussion guides and questions for evaluating worship songs.