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The Book Club: Susan Orlean's "The Library Book" and more short reviews from readers

The anger of the MAGA movement is transcendent. When people act on it, their bodies trigger the release of adrenaline, which can alter behavior. I saw this

An interesting and telling thing happened early in my 40-minute telephone interview last week with Tim Alberta. We were visiting in advance of his appearance Thursday in Little Rock to discuss his important best-selling book, "The Kingdom, the Power and the Glory."

Progressive Christians Against Christian Nationalism (CACN) are displacing their anger at Donald Trump onto evangelicals by painting evangelicals with the colors of American Christian nationalism (ACN). That is, CACNers blame white evangelicals for Christian nationalism. This is a mistake. Evangelical leaders themselves are anti-ACN. Providence puts Ameria in God's plan

(CNN) — There’s a tendency in this heated political climate to simply reject people who are saying false things and to write off conspiracy theorists writ large.

In the past five years we have seen as Americans how political propaganda can influence the faithful. I am referring to Christians who have their firm beliefs in American fundamentalist...

"If we do not stand up against this crap as the Church, no one else will," an organizer of the event wrote to potential attendees. "We have to be the ones to fight against evil."

Christians Against Christian Nationalism (CACN) are convinced that American Christian Nationalists (ACN) want the federal government to declare the United States to be a Christian nation. A Christian nation? Yes according to ACN.

"The (seeming) demise of page turners may be premature and hyperbolic, however."

Tim Alberta, despite his Canadian-sounding name, is a journalist for The Atlantic who has recently written a thought-provoking book on evangelicalism in the United States titled The Kingdom, The Power and the Glory — American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism. It’s well worth reading.