I'm Aisha Roscoe, and this is a Sunday story from Up First.
I often think about my faith and how it affects the way I carry myself as a journalist.
And as a journalist who is a Christian, I have obviously been noticing the Trump administration use biblical language
and imagery online, on social media to justify foreign and domestic policy decisions.
And I'm always.
Curious and interested to hear from people who have studied the Bible and studied Christianity and religion
who can talk about the biblical context that these ideas are being pulled from and what that says about the faith
that this administration is portraying.
I guess that 's why I was really, really interested when I heard a recent interview by Brittany Luce,
who hosts NPR's It 's Been a Minute podcast.
She sat down with two people who think a lot about the separation of church and state and also about what happens
when religion is mixed with policy in America.
Jason DeRose is NPR's religion correspondent.
Part of the rhetoric of conservative white evangelicals is that they are the oppressed minority in the United States.
Reverend Dr. Gabriel Salguero is the president and founder of the National Latino Evangelical Coalition.
He's also the pastor of The Gathering Place, an Assemblies of God congregation in Orlando, Florida.
Look, I think like in any community, evangelicals are not a monolith.
And oftentimes when.
Headlines say evangelicals say they mostly mean white evangelicals.
What I think makes this conversation special is how both guests engage with the idea of welcoming the stranger in Christian