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Ten Things I Learned From the Pentagon's Prayer Team

By Jeff Sharlet, The Revealer. Posted January 4, 2007.


The "Christian Embassy" quietly proselytizes inside the Pentagon, but its mission surpasses this simple ministry.
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Jeff Sharlet is a contributing editor to Harper's and the author of a history of elite Christian fundamentalism, forthcoming from HarperCollins.

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