Tim Alberta (born January 26, 1986) is an American journalist and author. He has written articles for The Hotline, the Wall Street Journal, National Journal, National Review, Politico, and The Atlantic. After college, Alberta interned for the Wall Street Journal; by 2017, he was an established journalist in Washington.He worked for the National Review before joining Politico and later The Atlantic. In 2019, Alberta published his first book, American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump. Shortly afterward, Alberta's father died, and upon returning to Michigan to attend the funeral, he was reprimanded by several members of his father's church who objected to the coverage of Trump in his journalism; one congregant said Alberta was "part of an evil plot [...] out to undermine God's ordained leader of the United States". Disturbed by this experience, Alberta began studying the relationship between American Evangelical Christianity and the radical right, which became his second book, The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism, published in 2023.

New Colorado center for study of evangelicals debuts with talk by Tim Alberta
Professors who believed Colorado Springs — home to dozens of national and international evangelical parachurch ministries — should help people better understand evangelicalism finally got their wish..The Center for the Study of Evangelicalism at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs began its work this fall and makes its public debut Wednesday with a talk by Tim Alberta, author of the bestselling book The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism.
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December 26, 2023: AlterNetSky reported: This Christmas, a journalist raised in the evangelical tradition called on his fellow believers to confront the rise of Christian nationalism before it tears apart the fabric of society. In a recent essay for The Atlantic, journalist Tim Alberta — the son of a megachurch pastor who has identified as an evangelical since childhood — warned of the creeping threat that Christian nationalism poses to society as a whole.

Politics is poisoning the evangelical church, author warns Little Rock crowd
As a preacher's kid, Tim Alberta is familiar with the evangelical world's inner workings.
As Politico's former chief political correspondent, he has seen how the sausage is made on Capitol Hill.
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​But these folks, they’re looking at Donald Trump and they’re hearing all of the same things that everyone else is hearing. They’re seeing his behavior and studying his personal life and some of his sort of obvious moral failings, and they’re looking for something to grab onto there. And I think that they look at, here’s a guy who has his own television show. Here’s a guy who has this famous book that he wrote. Here’s a guy who has his name plastered across buildings around the world, and maybe, just maybe, all of those material successes are actually proof that God’s favor has been with him all along, that God has set this person apart for purposes that we cannot possibly perceive or imagine.

Opinion: The factors that made evangelicals ready for Trump
Roughly 24 percent of Americans consider themselves “born-again or evangelical,” but what that means — spiritually, culturally, politically — depends on whom you ask. For some evangelicals, the role of politics, particularly the politics of today’s Republican Party, has taken on deep importance, changing how they relate to their faith, their faith leadership and one another.
Tim Alberta is a staff writer for The Atlantic and a Christian with deep roots in evangelical circles — his father, Richard Alberta, was the longstanding pastor of Cornerstone Evangelical Presbyterian Church in Brighton, Mich. Mr. Alberta has written a new book on the evangelical world in the wake of Donald Trump, “The Kingdom, the Power and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism.” We spoke recently about how some Christians have reshaped their views for political expediency, the role of celebrity in evangelical culture and how many “1776″ moments conservative evangelicals can possibly have left.
 (Jane Coaston/Salt Lake Tribune 12/31/23)
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MAGA evangelicals' 'desire for doom' explored by journalist
Many American evangelical Christians have taken on an apocalyptic view of the world in which they see former President Donald Trump as their sole savior against demonic forces, according to journalist Tim Alberta. In an interview with New York Times columnist Jame Coaston, Alberta discusses how evangelicals came to rationalize designating Trump as their savior despite his decades of documented un-Christian behavior.
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​"I think when you spend so much time swimming in these waters of ‘The end is near, they’re coming for us, brace yourself for this collision between the forces of good and evil,’ you actually start to not only anticipate it, but you start to look forward to it," Alberta explained

Tim Alberta Confronted By Trump Fans at Funeral For His Pastor Father: They Didn’t See Me as a ‘Grieving Son’
Tim Alberta spoke in depth of how Donald Trump supporters accosted him during his father’s funeral over his various criticisms of the former president. The Atlantic reporter joined NBC’s Kristen Welker on Sunday’s Meet The Press to talk about his new book: The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism. In the book, Alberta speaks about the Christian values he held as the son of a pastor, Trump’s
​ relationship with evangelicals, and how the Christian right has changed amid the former president’s political ascendance.   (Ken Meyer/MediaIte 12/27/23) READ MORE>>>>>