By: Eleanor J. Bader
Journalist Talia Lavin's second book, Wild Faith: How the Christian Right is Taking Over America, reports that a huge swath of the U.S. body politic—at least 10 million people—subscribe to the Evangelical notion that spiritual warfare is necessary to create God’s kingdom on earth. A deep distrust of secular authority, she writes, coupled with rigid ideas about gender, sexuality, and power has led many Evangelicals into conservative political activism. Lavin spoke to Ms. reporter Eleanor J. Bader several weeks before the book’s October 15 release.