Saturday, December 9, 2023

Tim Alberta’s “The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory” laments evangelicals’ politics - The Washington Post

One leader in the community, the head of an influential megachurch in Dallas, had a veritable "shrine" to Trump in his office. If "The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory" were a novel, I would say the symbolism was a bit on the nose. 

Alberta is not just a thorough and responsible reporter but a vibrant writer, capable of rendering a farcical scene in vivid hues. At one particularly outlandish church, he found himself worshiping "inside a tent next to a pistol-toting man wearing an Alex Jones shirt." When he attended the ReAwaken America Tour, a sort of revivalist traveling circus organized by former national security adviser Michael Flynn, he found a "scam artist's Super Bowl." "Here," Alberta wryly notes, "people panicked about Big Pharma's trickery were toting around boxes of unregulated vitamins."…


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