November 10, 2026
Organized by Center on Faith and Justice Georgetown University
Bioethics Research Library, Healy Hall, 102 3700 O, Washington, DC 20057 US
Join the Center on Faith and Justice for a post-election conversation with three of the most important chroniclers of American Christianity’s political turn, who are all publishing books this fall that, together, tell the fullest story yet of how we got here and what faithful people do now.
The panel, moderated by our Faculty Director Rev. Jim Wallis, will reflect on the election results, the forces shaping American Christianity and democracy, and what lies ahead for people of faith and conscience. Together, the authors will consider where American democracy and American Christianity stand, and where they go from here.
Each scholar brings a distinct perspective to this conversation, echoing their recently published books. Robert P. Jones’s Backslidenames this moment as a spiritual and political reversal: white Christianity’s devotion to authoritarian politics as a betrayal of the faith itself. Kristin Du Mez’s Live, Laugh, Love turns to the evangelical women’s culture that quietly built and sustained this movement from the inside. And Matthew D. Taylor’s Defying Tyrants traces the deeper theological history of Christian empire and makes the case, using the Bible’s own language, for what defiance looks like now.
What Now? Faith, Power and American Democracy / Georgetown University Events Calendar
