Book Review: "The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory" by Tim Alberta
"America... too many of them worship America." In an examination of of what his own faith community, Atlantic staff write Tim Alberta outlines threats not only to the evangelical tradition but to America as a whole. Beginning at his father's funeral in suburban Detroit, Alberta examines the condition of American evangelicalism in a journey across the centers of the movement, from Orange County, New York to Lynchburg, Atlanta, Dallas, Wheaton, and denominational meetings and churches as far flung as Arkansas and Anaheim. At the heart of Tim Alberta's barnstorming journalism across evangelical America is the first sin: idolatry. In Jewish, Reformed Christian, and Orthodox reckoning, the first two Commandments are related to the subject: "thou shalt have no other Gods before me," and "thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image." (Catholics and Lutherans lump these together into the First Commandment and reorder later Commandments, though the tex