Terry Heaton is a former executive producer of the Christian television news magazine show The 700 Club, where he assisted Pat Robertson in his run for President in 1988, and where he was in a unique position to observe and participate in the development of the Christian right. A media theorist, he is the author of Reinventing Local Media and has written for media news websites and media companies throughout the United States. Heaton plays guitar and five-string banjo and is a bluegrass music aficionado. He lives in Madison, Alabama.

THE GOSPEL OF SELF How Jesus Joined the GOP Terry Heaton Terry Heaton worked alongside televangelist Pat Robertson at The 700 Club and became its executive producer. This is the inside story of how, using deliberate and strategic social engineering, The 700 Club moved Christians steadily into the Republican Party—and moved the party itself to the right. More