Alberta, Tim A timely, rigorously reported, and deeply personal examination of the divisions that threaten to destroy the American evangelical movement from the award-winning journalist and staff writer for The Atlantic and author of the bestselling American Carnage. “Tim Alberta delivers another essential read. It is substantive, news-filled and personal. . . . Alberta is a fine guide to the world of conservative US Christians, their dispiriting march to the right, and its ugly cost.—Guardian In The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory, Tim Alberta, a practicing Christian and the son of a Presbyterian pastor, paints an expansive and profoundly troubling portrait of the American evangelical movement. For millions of conservative Christians, America is their kingdom. This love of country, however, has given way to right-wing nationalist fervor, a reckless blood-and-soil idolatry that trivializes the kingdom of Jesus Christ. Alberta retraces the arc of the modern evangelical movement, placing political and cultural inflection points in the context of church teachings and traditions, explaining how Donald Trump’s presidency and the Covid-19 pandemic accelerated historical trends that long pointed toward disaster. Alberta documents a growing fracture inside American Christianity and journeys through this strange new environment in which loving your enemies is “woke” and owning the libs is the answer to WWJD. Alberta investigates the ways in which conservative Christians have pursued, exercised, and often abused power in the name of securing this earthly kingdom in a rapidly secularizing America. He highlights the battles evangelicals are fighting—and the weapons of their warfare—to demonstrate the disconnect from scripture and the gulf between real cultural displacement and perceived religious persecution. Ultimately, Alberta asks: If the American evangelical movement has ceased to glorify God, what is its purpose?
