“One man questioned whether I was truly a Christian. Another asked if I was still on ‘the right side.’ All while Dad was in a box a hundred feet away.” Tim Alberta was standing in his home church at the funeral of his father, the longtime pastor. In 2020, Alberta had written American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump . In that book he reported on the conversion of the Republican Party to the Party of Trump. Now he was reaping the consequences—comments and criticism from people he had known for years who questioned not only his integrity but his Christian faith. In The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism , Alberta shares not only his personal journey but the path that has led many Christians from a simple fundamentalism to an extreme Christian nationalism. Written in between the two Trump terms, Alberta records the extremes to w...
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