Christian Nationalists Dream of Taking Over America. This Movement Is Actually Doing It.
“Estimates of Christians influenced by NAR vary widely, from 3 million to 33 million. But the number of adherents isn’t the extent of its influence; its main tenets have moved beyond the confines of churches and into the political mainstream, largely thanks to traveling apostles and prophets who preach at evangelical churches all over the world. Fred Clarkson, a senior research analyst with the extremism watchdog group Political Research Associates, described the 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 as a seismic cultural shift. ‘It’s the transformation of an entire society with this certain kind of Christo-centric worldview,’ he told me. ‘We’re talking about something so transcendentally revolutionary that most people never even thought about something like this.’”