There are no shortages of the use of the term "Judeo-Christian" when it comes to categorizing moral, ethical and political life in America. But what it really means and whether it's applied in a way the term would imply is up for questioning.

And has the phrase ever truly been accurate in describing a collective philosophy?

K. Healan Gaston of the Harvard Divinity School recently wrote a book about all of that called "Imagining Judeo-Christian America: Religion, Secularism and the Redefinition of Democracy." She’s in Tempe for an event at ASU today and joined The Show to shed light on these questions.

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