How politics corroded the American Evangelical movement
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
WBUR
4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Tim Alberta is one of America's top political reporters. He's also the son of an evangelical preacher. In his new book, Alberta investigates how politics has corroded the Evangelical movement that raised him.
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| 0:25.3 | This is on point. |
| 0:26.3 | I'm Meagna Chakrabardi. |
| 0:28.2 | Tim Alberta is one of the country's best political reporters. |
| 0:32.2 | He's currently a staff writer at the Atlantic and former chief political reporter |
| 0:36.5 | at Politico. |
| 0:38.8 | Though his expertise teases stories from Washington, D.C.'s most powerful politicians, Alberta has his |
| 0:46.9 | roots in Michigan. He is the son of an evangelical pastor and it was his experience in the Evangelical pastor. And it was his experience in the Evangelical Church that |
| 0:55.2 | powerfully shaped him and has given him unique insights into how politics have |
| 1:00.8 | shaped or even mutated, as Alberta might say, the American Evangelical Church. |
| 1:07.4 | His new book is about just that. |
| 1:09.4 | It's called The Kingdom, the Power, and the glory, |
| 1:13.0 | American evangelicals in an age of extremism. |
| 1:16.4 | Tim Alberta, welcome back to Onpoint. |
| 1:19.0 | Magna, thank you so much for having me. |
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