Evangelicals, Trump, and Witnessing for the Truth

The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory is the story of a shift in evangelicalism, and its central characters—the ones portrayed most sympathetically—are exasperated pastors, disillusioned institutional leaders, and weary church members. Then there’s Alberta himself, whose posture is one of curiosity, occasional amusement, and (most often) bewilderment at the spectacles on display in American evangelicalism. Alongside these characters are the stars of the new American right—the pastors, politicians, charlatans, and grifters who have made alarmism about politics, COVID, Trump, and/or QAnon features of their ministries and platforms. Alberta does an admirable job of taking the reader past the façade of their public personas, which more often than not reveals characters who are at once more complicated and more outrageous than they first appear.