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About the Participants
Katherine Stewart
Katherine Stewart is an award-winning journalist and author who has reported on the intersection of religion, politics, and democracy for over 16 years. Her latest book, Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy (Bloomsbury 2025), is a New York Times bestseller. She is also the author of The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism, winner of multiple awards and which formed the basis for the documentary God & Country. Her earlier book, The Good News Club, exposed efforts to undermine public education. Her work appears in The New York Times opinion section, New Republic, Religion News Service and others.
Matthew D. Taylor, Ph.D. | Moderator
Matthew D. Taylor, Ph.D., is the Christian scholar at the Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies in Baltimore, where he specializes in American Christianity, American Islam, Christian extremism, and religious politics. His book, The Violent Take It by Force: The Christian Movement that is Threatening Our Democracy (Broadleaf, 2024), tracks how a loose network of charismatic Christian leaders called the New Apostolic Reformation was a major instigating force for the January 6th Insurrection and is currently reshaping the culture of the religious right in the U.S. He is also the author of Scripture People: Salafi Muslims in Evangelical Christians’ America (Cambridge, 2023). His current projects include Defying Tyrants and a podcast on resisting religious nationalism. He holds a Ph.D. from Georgetown University and an M.A. from Fuller Seminary.