Author offers close-up look at how American evangelicalism has lost its way
Book review: “The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism” by Tim Alberta, ★★★★★
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In one of the many personal anecdotes that make up the heart of Tim Alberta’s The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism, interviewee Brian Zahnd recalls a 2009 conversation that points to the issue that is central the book.
Zahnd was a pastor in St. Joseph, Mo., whose bo…