Culture, Faith and Politics with Pat Kahnke

Chapter 7: Discussing Tim Alberta’s The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory.

The "A Visit to Hellscape Church" episode.

 

Dave Johnson and Pat Kahnke continue their discussion of Tim Alberta's new book "The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism." In this episode we discuss Alberta's experience with Bill Bolin's Floodgate church, where conspiracy theories abound and right-wing diatribes are the new church growth model.

Chapter 6: Discussing Tim Alberta’s The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory.

The "True Discipleship and Artificial Persecution" episode.

Dave Johnson and Pat Kahnke discuss chapter 6 of Tim Alberta's book "The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory," with an emphasis on two main themes from the chapter - the need for good discipleship, and the overblown claims of persecution of the church in America.

Chapter 5: Discussing Tim Alberta's book "The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory"

The "Robert Jeffress is Making Trump Palatable for Christians Again" episode.

Dave Johnson and Pat Kahnke continue their discussion of Tim Alberta's new book "The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism." This episode focuses on Robert Jeffress, the pastor of First Baptist Church in Dallas, and his efforts to rally Christians around support for Donald Trump despite all of the scandals and obvious lack of character Trump exhibits.

Chapter 4: Discussing Tim Alberta’s The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory.

The "They always kill the prophets" Episode Dave Johnson and Pat Kahnke discuss Tim Alberta's new book "The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism." In this episode we discuss Chapter 4, which focuses on Russell Moore and his attempts to be a voice for truth within the Southern Baptist Convention.

Chapter 3: Discussing Tim Alberta’s The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory.

The "The Falwells are exactly who we thought they were" episode.

Dave Johnson and Pat Kahnke continue to discuss Tim Alberta's new book "The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism." In this episode we discuss Chapter 3,which focuses on Jerry Falwell Sr., Jerry Falwell Jr., the formation of the Moral Majority, and various shenanigans at Liberty University.

Chapter 2: Discussing Tim Alberta’s The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory.

The "Giftedness and Dysfunction" Episode

Dave Johnson and Pat Kahnke discuss Tim Alberta's fantastic new book "The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism." This is the third in a series of conversations about the book. In this episode we discuss Chapter 2, in which Tim visits the church of Pastor John Torres, who describes the struggles he's had in recent years to keep his church from splintering over politics.

Chapter 1: Discussing Tim Alberta’s The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory.

The "Give us Barabbas!" Episode

Dave Johnson and Pat Kahnke discuss Tim Alberta's fantastic new book "The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism." This is the second in a series of conversations about the book. In this episode, we discuss Chapter 1, in which Tim Alberta tells the story of a young pastor struggling to serve Jesus in the midst of a congregation that wants him to take a much more MAGA approach to the issues of the day.

We deal with two main questions: What does it look like when patriotism becomes almost a worship of your country? How can pastors and church leaders talk about these issues without tearing their churches apart or "politicizing the pulpit"?

Prologue: Discussing Tim Alberta’s ”The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory”

Dave Johnson and Pat Kahnke discuss Tim Alberta's fantastic new book "The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism." This is the first in a series of conversations about the book. In this episode, we discuss the prologue, and we each share in depth and at length the broad concerns we have about the relationship between evangelicalism, politics, and culture. Just as Tim Alberta describes in the prologue the events that caused him to write the book, so we describe the events and experiences that caused us to speak publicly about the dangers evangelicals face by aligning with Donald Trump and the MAGA movement.