You're Invited - Live WTL Author Forum with Katherine Stewart, Author of "Money, Lies, and God"
Join us for #WhiteTooLong's first LIVE 2025 event, exclusively for paid subscribers.
WTL Author Forum - Friday, 02/07 at 12 pm ET with Katherine Stewart
We’ve had a wave of new subscribers over the last month—welcome! For those new to the #WhiteTooLong newsletter, I hold ongoing live WTL Author Forums throughout the year with leading authors. These webinars allow paid subscribers to hear directly from and interact with leading authors writing about religion, racial justice, and protecting our pluralistic democracy.
This Friday, I’m hosting the first of our 2025 live zoom events exclusively for paid subscribers: a conversation that could not be more timely with Katherine Stewart, author of the new book (release date 02/18/2025), Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy. Katherine and I will talk for 30 minutes and then take questions from Zoom webinar participants for the final 20 minutes.
This live event, like all WTL Author Forums, are for paid subscribers only. To receive access to the Zoom registration link (visible below for paid subscribers), please become a paid subscriber. In addition to this episode, you’ll get access to live conversations with an exciting lineup of authors all year long. Past author guests include: Sarah McCammon, Jemar Tisby, Jim Wallis, Grace Ji-Sun Kim, Melissa Deckman, and others.
About Katherine Stewart
Katherine Stewart is the author of The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism, the award-winning book upon which the documentary feature, God & Country, produced by Rob Reiner, is based. She has covered the intersection of faith and politics for over 15 years; her work appears in the New York Times, the New Republic and others. Her 2012 book, The Good News Club, covered the religious right's effort to infiltrate and undermine public education.
About the Book
The acclaimed author of The Power Worshippers exposes the inner workings of the “engine of unreason” roiling American culture and politics.
Why have so many Americans turned against democracy? In this deeply reported book, Katherine Stewart takes us to conferences of conspiracy-mongers, backroom strategy gatherings, and services at extremist churches, and profiles the people who want to tear it all down. She introduces us to reactionary Catholic activists, atheist billionaires, pseudo-Platonist intellectuals, self-appointed apostles of Jesus, disciples of Ayn Rand, women-hating opponents of “the gynocracy,” pronatalists preoccupied with the dearth of white babies, Covid truthers, militia members masquerading as “concerned moms,” and battalions of spirit warriors who appear to be inventing a new style of religion even as they set about attacking democracy at its foundations.
Along the way, she provides a compelling analysis of the authoritarian reaction in the United States. She demonstrates that the movement relies on several distinct constituencies, with very different and often conflicting agendas. Stewart's reporting and comprehensive political analysis helps reframe the conversation about the moral collapse of conservatism in America and points the way forward toward a democratic future.
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