Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich tells U.S. News and World Report  he’s launching a group to reach out to Christians and religious conservatives, and heal the rift between economic and religious conservatives.

“In the last few years I’ve decided that we’re in a crisis in which the secular state, if allowed, will fundamentally and radically change America against the wishes of most Americans,” Gingrich said in a phone interview on Thursday. “You’ve had such rising hostility to religious belief that I wanted to reach broadly into the country and dramatically raise public awareness of threats to religious liberty.”

Called Renewing American Leadership, the group includes top conservative Christian activists on its board.

Just this week, Gingrich’s new group partnered with the American Family Association—the conservative evangelical organization headed by Don Wildmon—to encourage churches and religious groups to participate in no-more-taxes rallies across the country on April 15…The antitax rallies illustrate the new group’s quest to unite religious and fiscal conservatives, two flanks of the Republican base that have squabbled with one another since Election Day.