The Family (58 page)

Family/Fellowship and, 19–20, 44–47

foreign politics and, 162

New Life Church and, 305–7, 313–15

nonpartisan politics of, 385

Chambliss, Saxby, 310

charitable choice concept, 381

chastity.
See
sexual purity movement

Chavez, Hugo, 413n

Chile, 248, 422–23n

China, 28, 267–68

Christ.
See
Jesus Christ

Christian (term), 2, 13–14, 19, 29–30, 51, 83, 310

Christian Democratic Union (CDU), 178–80

Christian educational movement, 336–69

author’s prayer meeting experience and, 339, 356–69

church/state separation issue and, 336–39, 356–60

home schooling, unschooling, providential history and, 339–45, 428n

Stonewall Jackson and, 351–56

Jewish history and, 360–64

religious influences in American history, 364–69

Rousas John Rushdoony’s Christian Reconstructionism and, 347–51

Vision Forum educational materials and, 345–47

Christian Embassy, 156–57, 353–54, 430–31n

Christianity, 5, 16, 50, 134, 179.
See also
American fundamentalism; Catholicism; Protestantism; religion

Christian Legal Society, 275

Christian Reconstructionism, 347

Christian Right, 44, 132, 222–23, 295, 337, 347, 383, 431n

church (term), 4, 213, 255, 374

churches, 15, 73, 83.
See also
church/state separation issue; New Life

Church church/state separation issue

Christian educational movement and, 336–39, 356–60

Dwight Eisenhower and, 199–200

Hillary Clinton and, 275

faith-based initiatives and, 379–86

Family/Fellowship secrecy and, 245

providential history and, 356–57

Earl Warren on, 199

Clay, Lucius D., 158

Cleaver, Eldridge, 240

Clinton, Bill, 276–77, 392–93

Clinton, Hillary, 260, 272–77

Coats, Dan, 242, 381, 418n

Coburn, Tom, 18, 264–65, 404n

Coe, David, 35–38, 243

Coe, Doug

African Americans and, 237–40

authoritarianism and, 30, 216–17, 254–55

James Baker and, 25

Sam Brownback and, 264–65

Hillary Clinton and, 272–73

Charles Colson and, 231–33, 235

on churches, 213

on covenants, 29–30

on domestic politics, 198

education of, 210–11

as Family/Fellowship leader, 8, 21–22, 208–18 (
see also
Family/Fellowship)

Mark Hatfield and, 211–212

internationalism of, 218–24 (
see also
foreign politics)

on Jesus plus nothing theology, 30, 42, 58, 121, 252–56, 380 (
see also

Jesus plus nothing theology)

David Kuo’s meeting with, 380

National Prayer Breakfast and, 22–26 (
see also
National Prayer Breakfast)

power of, 21–26, 214, 259–60

prayer bet of, 244

on social order, 371

Somalia case and, 281–82

spiritual warfare and, 213–14

as stealth persuader, 92

submergence strategy of, 223–24

Dawson Trotman and, 210–11

visit to Ivanwald by, 51–55

Coe, Jan, 213

Coe, Jonathan, 281–82

Cold War anticommunism.
See also
communism

The Blob
film and, 181–83

containment policy and, 162

missionaries and, 413n

Robert Taft and, 192–94

Abram Vereide, German fascism, and, 150–52 (
see also
German fascism)

Abram Vereide’s vision of international spiritual war as, 152–55 (
see also
foreign politics)

Colson, Charles W.

Born Again
memoir of, 7, 228, 424–25n

Sam Brownback and, 269–70

career and conversion of, 227–33

Christian worldview and, 342–43, 384, 429n

Hillary Clinton and, 274–75

on Family/Fellowship numbers, 20

influence of, 240, 259, 379

Prison Fellowship of, 22, 233–36

communism.
See also
Cold War anticommunism

Harry Bridges and, 102

Frank Buchman and, 129

cells and, 19–20, 45, 306–7

Suharto slaughter of Indonesian communists, 221, 245–52

Abram Vereide and, 99, 139, 157

Community Bible Study, 22

compassionate conservatism, 233, 236–40, 258

Compassion International, 295

Congress, U. S.
See also
politics anti-union legislation and, 141–43 Sam Brownback in (
see
Brownback, Sam)

Frank Carlson and, 186–95 (
see also
Carlson, Frank)

Family/Fellowship members in, 6, 15–16, 18–19, 138–40, 142, 148, 168–70, 185, 198–99, 247, 264, 276, 395, 396, 399–400n, 416n

Hillary Clinton in, 260, 272–77

postwar Nazi reconciliation and, 168–74, 177–78

Prayer Breakfast meetings with members of, 138–41 (
see also
National Prayer Breakfast; Prayer Breakfast meetings)

Conlan, John, 353

Connally, Jeff, 17–18, 30, 33–35, 38–42, 282–83

conservatism.
See also
Republicans

compassionate, 233, 236–40, 258

liberalism vs., 182 (
see also
liberalism)

neoconservatism, 183, 267

Abram Vereide’s elite fundamentalism and, 112–13

Constitution, U. S., 339, 348

containment policy, 162, 182.
See also
Cold War anticommunism

Cook, Roy, 33, 210

Coonley, Howard, 138–39, 189–90

Cooper, Dan, 354

Cooper, Merian, 203–4

core groups.
See
cells (core groups)

Corey, Lewis, 287

Costa Rica, 220–21

covenants, 29–30, 44, 54–55, 255

Crocker, Chester A., 54

Cromartie, Michael, 23

Crosby, Kenneth M., 184–85

C Street House, 29–30, 259, 276–77

Cuba, 184–85, 413n culture war, 227–28, 236, 287–90.
See also
Christian educational movement; New Life Church; Popular Front; sexual purity movement

Curtis, Carl, 18

Dague, Paul B., 142

Daubenmire, Dave, 356–57

Declaration of Independence, U. S., 339, 343

Deism, 366

DeLay, Tom, 265, 430, 431

DeMint, Jim, 18

democracy

Konrad Adenauer and, 179

Frank Buchman and, 128–29

deliverance and, 387

history of American secular, 337–39

Ivanwald brothers and, 40

Arthur Langlie and, 122

theocracy vs., 6–7, 277–78, 366–69 (
see also
theocracy)

Democrats.
See also
liberalism

Family/Fellowship and, 18–19, 190

Arthur Langlie and, 122

Denning, Michael, 287

deregulation, 142

desire, 50–51, 373–74, 386

de Tocqueville, Alexis, 341

Dewey, John, 376

dictators, Doug Coe and, 222

Diem, Ngo Dinh, 199