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One of the best books I've read in a long time, and an important read for anyone who identifies as evangelical, or is evangelical-adjacent, like me. I appreciate how carefully reported this book is, showing that the big white evangelical stars, like Franklin Graham, have chosen power over Christ; but so too have the small-town pastors, who have chosen power in Trump over Christ. It's sobering and dismaying, but the last chapter gives me hope that things can yet change.
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New York Times Bestseller
One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of the Year
An Air Mail Best Book of the Year
The award-winning journalist and staff writer for The Atlantic follows up his New York Times bestseller American Carnage with this timely, rigorously reported, and deeply personal examination of the divisions that threaten to destroy the American evangelical movement.
Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in America today. In his seminal new book, The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory, journalist Tim Alberta, himself a practicing Christian and the son of an evangelical pastor, paints an…