Wheaton College to host ‘Our Hope, Your Vote, and What Really Matters’ Sept. 12
The Center for Applied Christian Ethics and Student Development at Wheaton College is hosting “Our Hope, Your Vote, and What Really Matters” at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 12, in Barrows Auditorium, 500 College Ave. in Wheaton.
Curtis Chang and Tim Alberta will discuss the future of evangelicalism, politics, and the Christian imagination as a decades-long approach.
Alberta is an author, award-winning journalist, and staff writer for The Atlantic. He formerly served as chief political correspondent for Politico. In 2019, he published “American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump,” which debuted at No. 2 on the New York Times bestseller list and co-moderated the year's final Democratic presidential debate. In 2023, he published, “The Kingdom, The Power, and The Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism,” which spent 11 weeks on the Times bestseller list. He lives in Michigan with his wife and three sons.
Curtis Chang bridges the worlds of secular institutions and theology. In the former world, he is the founder and CEO of Consulting Within Reach, a firm serving nonprofits and government agencies. His consulting work has won an award in social innovation from the Obama White House, and he teaches strategic planning as a faculty member of American University’s School of International Service. In the Christian world, he is a consulting professor at Duke Divinity School and a Senior Fellow at Fuller Theological Seminary. Curtis is also a former senior pastor of an Evangelical Covenant Church in San Jose, California. He is the author of “The After Party: Towards Better Christian Politics” (with Nancy French), “The Anxiety Opportunity: How Worry Is the Doorway to Your Best Self,” and “Engaging Unbelief: A Captivating Strategy from Augustine and Aquinas.”
The first 200 to arrive receive a free copy of “The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory” by Tim Alberta and “The After Party” by Curtis Chang. A book signing will follow the event.
For information, visit www.wheaton.edu.