How evangelicalism got hijacked (with Tim Alberta)

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🗓️ 13 January 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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American evangelicalism’s pull towards the far right is felt by anyone that comes into contact with the movement. But how did this happen? Who did the pulling? What were the motivations? What were the pre-conditions that made evangelicals so susceptible? With his latest book, The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism, Tim Alberta has written the definitive book that answers these questions. He and Curtis discuss the key types of individuals, the organizations, the strategies, and especially the hidden incentive structures that lie beneath the headlines.

The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism by Tim Alberta (Harper)

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0:00.0	The Welcome to the Good Faith Podcast. I'm your host Curtis Chang and the Good Faith
0:21.3	Podcast is a production of Redeeming Babble.
0:24.0	And it's where friends who follow Jesus help each other make sense of the world.
0:29.0	And one thing that has felt completely nonsensical for I think many of our listeners and for myself is what happened to the evangelical church?
0:39.0	How did a movement as large as this becomes so consumed with political idolatry, extremism, and
0:47.4	become a danger point to American democracy.
0:51.2	Well, if you have been puzzled by how to make sense of that question, I have a treat for you because we are going to talk today to Tim Alberta, the author of The Kingdom, the Power and the Glory glory, American evangelicals, and an age of extremism.
1:05.8	Tim, welcome to the Good Faith Podcast.
1:08.0	Curtis, thank you for having me, my friend.
1:10.9	It is good to see you and I have been especially looking forward
1:15.4	to this conversation in the midst of all the the book launch madness this has been
1:20.8	one that I've had circled on the calendar.
1:23.0	Tim is a friend and I've talked with Tim about this book while he was doing it and Tim you didn't tell me you were writing the book like this is I think really going to go down in history as the definitive explanation for our
1:37.6	era and why American evangelicals have gotten so off track and is pulling the potentially our whole country down the tracks.
1:44.8	Tim did you I gotta ask you did you think you were going to write the book like did you
1:50.0	was that your ambition to write the definitive account because you've done it?
1:53.7	Well part of what made this project so unique and also so challenging in a lot of ways
1:58.9	was that I was a part of it right this this isn just a story, it's my story in many ways and it's my family's story.
2:06.4	And so, you know, I think at the outset, the primary goal or at least the the most achievable objective as I was
2:19.5	setting out was just can I answer these questions for myself right because I'm not going to be I'm not
2:25.2	going to be much of a service to anybody else unless I can first wrap my own head around these things
2:30.9	and so I do feel like I was able to do that but it but it wasn't easy
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