Our Hope Your Vote and What Really Matters

Our Hope, Your Vote, and What Really Matters

Tim Alberta and Curtis Chang
Thursday, September 12, 7:00pm
Barrows Auditorium

Discussion, book giveaway and book signing

Curtis Chang and Tim Alberta discuss the future of evangelicalism, politics, and the Christian imagination as a decades-long approach. The first 200 to arrive receive a free copy of The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory by Tim Alberta and The After Party by Curtis Chang. A book signing will follow the event.

Guest Bios

Tim Alberta is an author, award-winning journalist, and staff writer for The Atlantic. He formerly served as chief political correspondent for POLITICO. In 2019, he published American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump, which debuted at No. 2 on the New York Times bestseller list and co-moderated the year's final Democratic presidential debate. In 2023, he published, The Kingdom, The Power, and The Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism, which spent 11 weeks on the Times bestseller list. He lives in Michigan with his wife and three sons.

Curtis Chang bridges the worlds of secular institutions and theology. In the former world, he is the founder and CEO of Consulting Within Reach (CWR), a firm serving nonprofits and government agencies. His consulting work has won an award in social innovation from the Obama White House, and he teaches strategic planning as a faculty member of American University’s School of International Service. In the Christian world, he is a consulting professor at Duke Divinity School and a Senior Fellow at Fuller Theological Seminary. Curtis is also a former senior pastor of an Evangelical Covenant Church in San Jose, California. He is the author of The After Party: Towards Better Christian Politics (with Nancy French), The Anxiety Opportunity: How Worry Is the Doorway to Your Best Self, and Engaging Unbelief: A Captivating Strategy from Augustine and Aquinas.

This event is free and open to the public and will take place in Billy Graham Hall, Room 105 Barrows Auditorium, located at 500 College Avenue in Wheaton. For more information, contact Jill Caballero at 630.752.5886 or cace@wheaton.edu.