Money, Power, and Belief – moderated by women’s historian Lorissa Rinehart – will be a conversation between Katherine Stewart, author of Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy and Jane Borden, author of Cults Like Us: Why Doomsday Thinking Drives America. These two authors whose work, read together, offer one of the most clarifying accounts of how we arrived at this political moment.
Stewart gives you the machinery behind the Christian nationalist movement that has been quietly capturing American institutions for decades. Borden gives you the psychology of how cult dynamics, manufactured belonging, and charismatic authority have seeped into mainstream culture in ways most of us are only now beginning to name. Together, they answer the question your members are almost certainly asking: how did this happen, and what do we do about it?
