Tim Alberta, an award-winning journalist for The Atlantic magazine and former chief political correspondent for POLITICO, is a well-known voice in American politics and widely regarded as trustworthy in his reporting. After the 2019 publication of his first book, American Carnage, he became more involved in the political sphere and dealt with strong criticism from the more extreme religious right, both on a public and a personal level. He additionally provided political commentary on the 2020 election, co-moderating the final Democratic debate on PBS. His experience of the reaction to his first book from the larger conservative media world as well as the reaction from his hometown’s evangelical community, with whom he previously identified, fueled his efforts in creating The Kingdom, The Power, and The Glory, which was published at the end of 2023.

As the son of a megachurch pastor in Brighton, Michigan, he previously considered himself a staunch apologist for Christianity, both evangelical and otherwise. He describes himself as steeped in the right-wing evangelist subculture before and during the presidential era of Donald Trump. However, after witnessing the support Trump received from the self-described “moral majority,” he researched and published his first book.