Katherine Stewart: Inside the Movement To Destroy Our Democracy

Our Program: At 2pm Pacific, we'll play the 90 minute documentary, God & Country, based on Katherine Stewart's book, The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism, followed by a short discussion and a stretch break.

Then, at approximately 4pm Pacific, Katherine Stewart will join us in person to share her thoughts about the documentary and her current thinking as expressed in her new book, Money Lies and God : Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy.

Ms. Stewart's books will be available for purchase, courtesy of Tecolote Book Shop. Here is the New York Times review of Money Lies and God: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/books/review/money-lies-and-god-katherine-stewart.html

This event is co-sponsored by the Humanist Society of Santa Barbara and the Live Oak Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Goleta, CA.

**It will also be live streamed on Zoom at: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88193881833**

Our Speaker: Katherine Stewart has been covering religious nationalism and the assault on American democracy for over 15 years. Stewart writes for The New York Times opinion, New Republic, and many others, and has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, and NPR.

Her previous book, The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism, was awarded first place for Excellence in Nonfiction Books by the Religion News Association as well as a Morris D. Forkosch award. In 2020 The Power Worshippers was acquired by producers Rob Reiner and Michele Reiner, who subsequently based their documentary feature film, God & Country, on the book.

Before that, her book, The Good News Club: The Christian Right’s Stealth Assault on America’s Children covered the religious right’s efforts to infiltrate and undermine public education. This book was inspired by Stewart's experience as a Montecito Mom with school-aged children enrolled in our local schools.