From Cafe and the Vox Media Podcast Network, welcome to stay tuned.

I'm Preet Barara.

There is an evangelical industrial complex

and it exists not for the nurturing of

spiritual journeys not for the betterment of society by way of introducing Jesus to an unbelieving world.

It exists to win elections.

It exists to win the culture wars. That's Tim Alberta.

He's a staff writer at the Atlantic and the author of The Kingdom, the Power and the Glory,

American Evangelicals in an age of extremism.

Alberta's sweeping book is a look at how the reactionary attitudes and coarseness of the modern

maggotinge Republican Party has transformed Evangelical Christianity.

It's also an examination of Alberta's own faith.

He is the son of an evangelical pastor.

We talk about his father's unexpected religious and political transformation,

why Evangelicals stand by former President Trump,

and the nature of religious faith.

That's coming up.

Stay tuned. In December 2020, a Latino couple was falsely accused by a white mom

influencer of attempting to kidnap her children. The Karen phenomenon

where white women falsely accused people of color of crimes usually fixates on the accuser, the so-called Karen.

But for this series we focus on the innocent couple at the heart of this story.

I just want the public to know. on the innocent couple at the heart of this story.

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