How Can Evangelicals Support Trump? With Tim Alberta
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🗓️ 12 December 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Tim Alberta is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of the great new book, The Kingdom, The Power, and The Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism. You can get your copy here. He was previously the chief political correspondent for Politico. He is also the author of American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump. In this episode Alberta, a former seminarian and son of an evangelical pastor, discusses his personal experience with evangelical faith and the intersection of faith and politics. He explores the influence of evangelicalism on American politics, particularly in relation to Donald Trump and the rise of Christian nationalism. Alberta argues that the politicization of faith has had a negative impact on the church, leading to a decline in religious identification and attendance. He also addresses the role of race in the evangelical movement and the challenges of reconciling politics with the teachings of Jesus.
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| 1:10.6 | biggest questions will be, |
| 1:12.8 | how the hell did America's Christians become Donald Trump's biggest supporters? |
| 1:18.9 | And why do they still support him? |
| 1:21.8 | Nobody understands that phenomenon better than the Atlantic's Tim Alberta. |
| 1:27.2 | He's the son of an evangelical pastor and still an active |
| 1:31.2 | churchgoer himself who spent the last four years studying the evangelical movement and has written a |
| 1:38.3 | great new book about it all, the kingdom, the power, and the glory. As Alberta documents, many mega churches today have |
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