The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
by Tim Alberta
View on GoodreadsTim Alberta's follow-up to American Carnage — a son-of-an-evangelical-pastor's reckoning with what the movement his father served has become in the Trump era, structured around his father's funeral and the people who showed up.
Core ideas
- The personal frame — Alberta lost his evangelical-pastor father in the same week as the 2020 election; congregants used the funeral itself to attack him over politics — is the book's emotional spine.
- The reporting is wide: Liberty University under Falwell Jr., First Baptist Dallas, Andy Stanley's pushback, Russell Moore's exile, Robert Jeffress's accommodations — Alberta tours the movement's institutions and people.
- The diagnosis: evangelical political identity has eaten evangelical religious identity, and the leaders who try to push back face consequences from their own congregants, not just from the political wing.
Published2023
Pages506
ISBN9780063226883
ReadDec 2023
