Tim Alberta

🧨 I've written a book. About Christianity. About being a pastor's kid. About the evangelical church idolizing America at the expense of its witness for Jesus Christ. Four years of reporting. A lifetime of reflection. I'd be honored if you pre-ordered: axios.com/2023/06/15/tim…

Bail has been set at 3,500 tickets

I don't know what, exactly, to make of the Journal piece. I do know that this particular defense—"Does anyone honestly believe this sounds like Donald Trump?"—has, in the past, left some loyalists looking very, very stupid. politico.com/magazine/story…

I guest hosted Radio Atlantic this week and was lucky to speak with @jkbjournalist, the person who knows more about Jeffrey Epstein than most other people on the planet. You can listen here: theatlantic.com/podcasts/archi… (And don't worry, the great @HannaRosin will be back next week.)

Jonathan Edwards preached his first sermon at 18 yrs old on Romans 8 and made 3 points: 1. Your bad things will work out for your good and God’s glory (Romans 8:28) 2. Your best things can never be taken away (Romans 8:37) 3. The best of all things are yet to come (Romans 8:17)

i think if you're a dem incumbent tonight you don't want to overreact to a mayoral race in NYC but you also maybe want to think a littttle harder about making sure your dem constituents don't view you as some kind of useless appendage for a ineffective party

Midway through the 3rd quarter of a close-out game—to win an NBA title—the OKC Thunder have 4 assists and 13 turnovers. And they're shooting 6% (yes, six percent) from three.

Fitting that Mike Lee spent Father's Day sending the tweets that awoke official Washington to the depths of his moral/spiritual decay. The stuff I heard while profiling him last year was straight out of a Freudian fever dream. On Rex Lee's troubled son: theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

Spectacular. Phenomenal. All the superlatives. Hats off to Jeffrey Lurie! Almost enough to make me a birds fan. (Almost.)

“Trump has increased the Republican Party’s share of the presidential vote in each election he’s been on the ballot in close to half the counties in America — 1,433 in all… By contrast, Democrats have steadily expanded their vote share in those three elections in only 57 of the…

Every year around this time we move from White House Correspondents Dinner posts straight into Met Gala posts and I am forced to consider gouging out both eyes

670 applicants for 10 spots. A 1.5% admissions rate. Fair to say I’m really excited about this next generation of AJI fellows. Such an impressive group.

I think Ben’s gonna be okay at this whole magazine writing thing

Brutal end to a beautiful season. Alas. Long after the Knicks are bounced in the second round for a third straight year, this will be remembered as the dawn of another great era of Deeeeeee-troit basketball.

Disillusioned with the American church but still drawn to the way of Jesus? Join @SkyeJethani & @TimAlberta next week in Detroit for a conversation and audience Q&A on engaging with faith, politics & culture from a place of hope rather than fear. Tickets: loom.ly/BRZ1HEo

The “For You” tab is a hellscape of fake AI-generated political content, weird Tesla boosterism, no-context Elon posts, quasi-porn videos that lead down even darker rabbit holes, and absolute mind rot. X needs to make disappearing this tab optional and downgrading demonic content…

There's literally a whole generation of #Pistons fans who just saw the first playoff win in their lifetime. It's a whole new era.

Thursday night about to be like