Gods of the Smoke Machine: Power, Pain, and the Rise of Christian Nationalism in the Megachurch - Scott Latta

Scott Latta is an award-winning journalist who has spent a decade reporting for humanitarian organizations on conflict, displacement, and climate change around the world. He has interviewed Syrian refugees in Lebanon, nomadic farmers in Niger, migrant families in Ecuador, and midwives in Sierra Leone. His writing has been featured in the Believer, CityLab, Modern Farmer, the Awl, and the Southampton Review, which awarded him the 2016 Frank McCourt Memoir Prize. He lives in Portland, Oregon.