Daniel Silliman Daniel Silliman is a U.S. historian. A Lilly Fellow at Valparaiso University, he writes about religion in American culture.
At Jeffress’ First Baptist Church of Dallas, Trump Support Is Part of a 150-Year Tradition Daniel Silliman Before Jeffress was W.A. Criswell, Billy Graham's segregationist preacher, George Truett, the anti-Catholic namesake of the Chick-fil-A founder, and so on.