Six Bridges Book Festival

Katherine Stewart

PRESENTER: Katherine Stewart
BOOK: Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy
MODERATOR: Michael Cook

About the author:

Katherine Stewart is the author of The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism, the award-winning book upon which the 2024 documentary feature God & Country, produced by Rob Reiner and Michele Reiner, is based. She has covered the intersection of faith and politics for over 15 years; her work appears in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the New Republic, the Guardian, and Religion News Service, and she has been featured on broadcast media outlets such as MSNBC, CNN, and NPR. Her 2012 book The Good News Club covered the religious right’s effort to infiltrate and undermine public education.

About the book:

In the deeply reported New York Times bestseller Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy, Katherine Stewart takes readers to conferences of conspiracy-mongers, backroom strategy gatherings, and services at extremist churches, and profiles the people who want to tear it all down. She introduces us to reactionary Catholic activists, atheist billionaires, pseudo-Platonist intellectuals, self-appointed apostles of Jesus, disciples of Ayn Rand, women-hating opponents of “the gynocracy,” pronatalists preoccupied with the dearth of white babies, militia members masquerading as concerned moms, and battalions of spirit warriors who appear to be inventing a new style of religion even as they set about attacking democracy at its foundations.

Sponsored by the John David Coulter Memorial Fund