BuzzFlash: Bill Berkowitz for BuzzFlash: The New Apostolic Reformation, The Largest Religious Movement You Never Heard Of, Pushing Guns, God, and Secession in the Northwest - June 10, 2021

“In new reporting about anti-democratic and secessionist organizing by the Religious Right Often used interchangeably with Christian Right, but also can describe broader conservative religious coalitions that are not limited to Christians. Can include right-wing Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Mormons, and members of the Unification Church of Sun Myung Moon. Learn more , militia groups and White supremacist factions in the Pacific Northwest, Frederick Clarkson and Cloee Cooper discuss the role being played by the New Apostolic Reformation A movement originally identified and named in the 1990s by evangelical theologian C. Peter Wagner. The NAR has since become the leading political and cultural vision of the Pentecostal and Charismatic wing of evangelical Christianity. Learn more (NAR). Over the years, NAR has escaped deep scrutiny, tucked behind such Religious Right notables as Jerry Falwell, Jr. Franklin Graham, Tony Perkins, James Dobson, and Ralph Reed. Nevertheless, as Clarkson and Cooper point out, NAR is ‘playing a growing role in American politics.’”

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