Gods of the Smoke Machine: Power, Pain, and the Rise of Christian Nationalism in the Megachurch

“A harrowing look at a growing and in many ways unaccountable force in American political life.” —Publishers Weekly

We are entering a new era of religion in America: For the first time, fewer than half the country belongs to a church.
But within that group, growing numbers are consolidating in megachurches, which are amassing social and political power in our age of convenience and easy celebrity.

Megachurch pastors have never been more influential—with media empires, networks, and entire coll...