Introduction: My Motivation to Write This Book

Introduction: My Motivation to Write This Book

“You have to write a book about your experience!” one of my mentors, Barbara McGraw, exclaimed to me in mid-February 2023. Her words carried weight with me not only because of our friendship, but also due to her esteemed roles as a professor of social ethics, law, and public life at Saint Mary’s College of California. Barbara’s extensive work as an author, speaker, and commentator on American identity, the role of religion in public life, and the moral foundations of the American political system made her advice impossible for me to ignore. Still, her suggestion stimulated incredulous laughter in me. “You’re kidding me, right?” I retorted, almost reflexively. “Not at all,” she asserted. “It’s crucial for people to grasp how someone like you, someone totally dedicated to peace, could be drawn into QAnon.”

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