1/ @MichaelRWear and @PaulDMiller2 ask: "What's the difference between White Christian Nationalism and American Civil Religion.

I have a few thoughts about that...

Caveat: wonky.

2/ Identifying characteristics of contemporary White Christian Nationalism (WCN) uses a language of:
a) Blood
b) Apocalypse
c) Messianism
d) Persecution

3/ American Civil Religion (ACR), by contrast, emphasizes
a) Democracy
b) Freedom
c) Justice
d) Inclusion.

4/ WCN draws on two Biblical sources:

a) Stories of conquest, warfare and sacrifice in the the OT.
b) Prophecies of apocalypse, esp. in "Revelation."

5/ ACR draws on:

a) Stories of slavery, liberation and covenant in the OT.
b) Theories of revolution, republicanism and citizenship in political philosophy.

6/Important thinkers in ACR tradition include Winthrop and Williams, Lincoln and Douglass, DuBois and Niebuhr, King and Heschel.

Important exponents of WCN tradition include: Mather, Calhoun, Dixon, Wallace.

7/ ACR spans the left/right divide. I lay out the left version here. https://www.amazon.com/American-Covenant-History-Religion-Puritans-dp-0691191670/dp/0691191670/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1610626327

8/ @PaulDMiller2 is developing a right version in his forthcoming book.