Journalist Tim Alberta has a new book later this year, Axios reports.
Harper will publish Alberta’s The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism this fall. The press describes the book as a “timely, rigorously reported, and deeply personal examination of the divisions that threaten to destroy the American evangelical movement.”
Alberta was formerly the chief political correspondent for Politico, and is currently a staff writer for The Atlantic. He is the author of a previous book, American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump, published by Harper in 2019. His father was an evangelical minister.
Earlier this month, he published an Atlantic piece about “the meltdown at CNN,” focusing on the network’s CEO, Chris Licht. Five days after the article ran, Licht was fired.
The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory will focus on infighting and controversies within evangelical Christianity. Alberta told Axios that he “interviewed megachurch leaders and pastors who lead flocks of 20; I covered the crack-ups of major denominations and individual congregations; I documented the hypocrisy and self-dealing happening at the highest levels of American Christianity.”
“Sifting through the wreckage—pastors broken, congregations battered, believers losing their religion because of sex scandals and political schemes—Alberta asks: If the American evangelical movement has ceased to glorify God, how long can it survive?” Harper says of the book.
The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory is slated for publication on Dec. 5.
Michael Schaub, a journalist and regular contributor to NPR, lives near Austin, Texas.
