TODAY! Sunday’s Speakeasy with Dr. Matthew Taylor, Author of “The Violent Take It By Force”
Registration for today’s Speakeasy with Dr. Matthew Taylor on his new book, “The Violent Take It By Force: The Christian Movement That Is Threatening Our Democracy” — Sunday, 10/20, 4 pm Pacific
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Bette’s Calendar at a glance:
Sunday, Oct. 20, 4 pm PT: Speakeasy book salon with Dr. Matthew Taylor on The Violent Take It By Force — all levels of paid members invited
Tuesday, Oct. 22, 5 pm PT: Surprise guest! All paid membership levels invited — look for registration link Sunday evening
TODAY’S EVENT BEGINS IN ABOUT FOUR HOURS!
Hello friends!
Our Happy Hour featuring Bette’s All-Stars on pro-democracy messaging is here! So much good stuff:
And look for upcoming posts featuring audio links to our recent events with Gareth Gore and Craig Unger!
Just zipping a reminder to make sure you calendar and register for our next event, today at 4 pm Pacific:
SPEAKEASY WITH DR. MATTHEW TAYLOR ON “THE VIOLENT TAKE IT BY FORCE”
Matthew Taylor shines a bright light on a dark corner of American Christianity, depicting its role in the ascendency of Donald Trump, the January 6th insurrection, and the “holy violence” it’s bringing to our political life. In brisk, engaging prose, he portrays the leaders and the followers of a movement that threatens to replace rational public discourse with strident demonology, endangering the future of our democracy.
—Anne Nelson, author of Shadow Network: Media, Money and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right
I am thrilled that author Matthew Taylor will be joining us today, Sunday at 4 pm Pacific, 10/20, for a Q&A on his new book: “The Violent Take It By Force: The Christian Movement That Is Threatening Our Democracy.” He is treating us to a PowerPoint, and there will be time for questions.
Many of you heard from Matthew at a recent Lucid, and some of you know the work that I have been doing on these pages to expose Christian Nationalism, through my interviews with Anne Nelson on the film, Bad Faith, and our op-ed from Tom Carter on his warnings of Leonard Leo.
We will learn much more today with Matthew, and below are details:
Matthew D. Taylor is senior scholar at the Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies in Baltimore, where he specializes in American Christianity, American Islam, Christian extremism, and religious politics. His new book, The Violent Take It by Force: The Christian Movement that is Threatening Our Democracy (Broadleaf, 2024), tracks how a network of Christian leaders called the New Apostolic Reformation was a major instigating force for the January 6th Insurrection and is currently reshaping the culture of the religious right in the U.S. He is also the author of Scripture People: Salafi Muslims in Evangelical Christians' America (Cambridge, 2023). Taylor holds a PhD in religious studies and Muslim-Christian relations from Georgetown University and an MA in theology from Fuller Theological Seminary. He also serves as an associate fellow at the Center for Peace Diplomacy in New Orleans, where he works on preventing religion-related violence surrounding U.S. elections.
Book links here:
The Violent Take It By Force is available now! Always so grateful to those who support our featured authors by buying their books! Here are the links where you can find it:
If you are not yet a Bette member, you can check out RadPod’s interview with Matthew from Thursday:
The work he does bridge building between faiths is very inspiring.
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Thank you for everything always and see many of you today in about four hours!
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