Jeannette Cooperman at The Common Reader:
Last week, even a Martian could have heard the buzz of anticipation in WashU’s Graham Chapel. Its pews were smooshed with an overflow audience eager to hear Tim Alberta, staff writer for The Atlantic, make sense of something we have struggled with for a decade: how to reconcile Christian support for a president oblivious to Christian values.
Alberta has been covering this paradox for years. He wrote the bestselling American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump, and just last year, The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism. In his introduction, the director of the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics called The Kingdom “one of the most astute and persuasive accounts of religion in contemporary politics that I’ve read.”
We settled in, ready for insight.
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