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About the Panelists
Sarah Posner
Sarah Posner is the author of UNHOLY: How White Christian Nationalists Powered the Trump Presidency, And the Devastating Legacy They Left Behind. Her 2008 book, God’s Profits: Faith, Fraud, and the Republican Crusade for Values Voters, explored the unholy alliance between the Republican Party and prosperity televangelists. Her investigative reporting and analysis on the religious right in Republican politics has appeared in Rolling Stone, The New Republic, Vice, HuffPost, Reveal, The Nation, Mother Jones, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The American Prospect, Talking Points Memo, and many other publications. She is a widely cited expert and frequent commentator on religion and politics, and a columnist for MSNBC.
Amanda Tyler
Amanda Tyler is the executive director of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty (BJC), where she defends religious liberty and opposes government establishment of religion. She leads the Christians Against Christian Nationalism campaign and co-hosts the Respecting Religion podcast. A member of the Texas and U.S. Supreme Court Bar, Tyler has worked in Congress, private legal practice, and as a law clerk for a federal judge. Originally from Austin, Texas, she graduated magna cum laude from Georgetown University and earned her J.D. with honors from the University of Texas School of Law. She became BJC’s executive director in 2017.