Strange Bedfellows: Evangelicals, Mormons, and the Politics of Power — A Conversation with Benjamin Park and Nicholas Shrum

For much of the twentieth century, evangelicals and Latter-day Saints occupied distinct corners of American Christianity—yet in recent decades, they’ve often found themselves aligned politically. In this episode of Dialogue Unbound, host Margaret Olsen Hemming talks with historian Benjamin Park and scholar Nicholas Shrum about how theology, race, and nationalism shape this unlikely alliance. Together, they trace the evolution of evangelical–Mormon relations, explore how partisan identity has come to override religious difference, and consider what this partnership reveals about the changing face of American Christianity.