Cabinet-level Bible study is funded through million-dollar donor galas

Evidence

In the past two years, perhaps no Christian nationalist leader has had better luck playing the inside game than Ralph Drollinger. A onetime athlete and sports evangelist from California, Drollinger now leads weekly “Bible study” in the White House for cabinet secretaries and other officials—Mike Pence has reportedly attended—and his operation is rapidly expanding, both domestically through state capitols and among political leaders overseas. In hopes of learning more about the keys to his success, I find myself on the road to Tulare, a city in California’s San Joaquin Valley, where Trump’s secretary of agriculture, Sonny Perdue, headlines a $10,000-a-table celebration of Capitol Ministries, the group that Drollinger founded. — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers, 142

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• XREF: connects to: Trump’s cabinet drew members from prior Capitol Ministries Bible study groups. — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the…, 195