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| “The Kingdom, The Power, and The Glory,” by Tim Alberta |
December 14, 2023 |
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Political journalist Tim Alberta is confronted by angry parishioners at his father's funeral. His book detailing former President Donald Trump’s leadership turns him into a target of right-wing media, one that he never expected to encounter at the church his father led for more than twenty-five years. Alberta —a practicing Christian who grew up in the evangelical Christian world —investigates and finds the source of the corruption he sees in his faith tradition.
Alberta describes why he spent four years traveling across the country to meet small-town preachers and larger mega-churches that command standing-room-only crowds. From visits with advocacy organizations to denominational nonprofits and assorted independent ministries, Alberta describes how he finds a faith tradition degraded by partisan agendas and scandal. He acknowledges the religious ideology of this movement is not new and that it might be too late to intervene.
In this final segment, Alberta describes the embrace of former President Donald Trump. He points to a series of factors that created the present moment, from racial unrest and demographic changes to the COVID-19 pandemic. Alberta translates how these events are understood within Christian evangelical narratives about persecution and redemption by a flawed messiah.
Tim Alberta, award-winning journalist, best-selling author, and staff writer for The Atlantic magazine. He formerly served as chief political correspondent for POLITICO. In 2019, he published the critically acclaimed book, "American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump" and co-moderated the year's final Democratic presidential debate aired by PBS Newshour.
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