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Join us as we welcome Mac Loftin and Alejandra Oliva to the store for an event in celebration of Dr. Loftin's new book In the Twilight of the Christian West: A Theology of Mourning and Resistance. As far-right authoritarianism resurges under the banner of preserving Western civilization, Mac Loftin reveals how white Christian nationalism’s political will is shaped by a theology of power within Christianity itself.

Countering this malignant theology, Loftin draws on the vision of antifascist thinkers, mystics, and theologians including Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Simone Weil, and Michel de Certeau. He reveals how these revolutionaries forged potent theological resistance in their own fraught political moments by recovering a radically different Christian tradition: one that embraces impermanence, reconciliation, difference, and the liberative work of mourning.

Mac Loftin is Lecturer on Theology at Harvard University, where he earned his PhD. He writes a column for The Christian Century on theology and politics. In the Twilight of the Christian West is his first book.

Alejandra Oliva is an essayist and translator, and the author of Rivermouth: A Chronicle of Language, Faith and Migration. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, Commonweal, and Time Magazine.