"The Crisis of American Christianity" with Tim Alberta

The John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University in St. Louis hosted this Danforth Distinguished Lecture by Tim Alberta on the state of American Christianity and politics in the contemporary scene. The journalist and best-selling author discussed the cascading conflicts at the intersection of faith and political power.

Tim Alberta is an award-winning journalist, best-selling author, and staff writer for The Atlantic magazine. Hailing from Brighton, Michigan, he attended Schoolcraft College and later Michigan State University, where his plans to become a baseball writer were altered by a serendipitous stint covering the legislature in Lansing.

He went on to spend more than a decade in Washington, reporting for publications such as the Wall Street Journal, National Journal, and National Review. Tim would ultimately serve as chief political correspondent for POLITICO before moving back to Michigan and joining The Atlantic in 2021.

In 2019 he released his first book, “American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump,” and co-moderated the year’s final Democratic presidential debate. In 2023 he followed up with, “The Kingdom, The Power, and The Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism."

Center Director Mark Valeri offered an introduction and Professor Marie Griffith moderated questions after the talk.