Reality in RuinsJared Stacy PhDLabel: HarperOneDescription: For anyone who has ever said “It feels like we’re living in different realities an unforgettable read and definitive explainer of the strange history of evangelical conspiracy theory.Conspiracy theories are at the root of the most pressing political problems of our time yet their influence cuts just as personal. Suspicion has fractured families communities churches and our very social fabric as one person’s fact is another’s fake news.In Reality in Ruins Dr. Jared Stacy braves the untold history of conspiracism in American evangelicalism and the anxiety at the heart of this radioactive movement that affects us all. In a new age of what he calls “Disreality many are left reeling in the ruins of what was once a common world now splintered by warring ideologies religious and political extremism and cults of certainty. Dr. Stacy reports from the inside as someone raised and even ordained in one of the nation’s most conservative denominations. Now as a historian and post-evangelical theologian Dr. Stacy traces the currents of pain panic and power that have thrust the evangelical church into a theological crisis with consequence for everyone.For concerned citizens Christians who are sounding the alarm on Christian Nationalism and anyone grieving the relationships paranoia has ruptured Reality in Ruins profiles the problem validates your pain prepares you for good resistance and empowers you to become the truth-tellers a common world deserves.
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