‘Dad Went to War’: The Radical Faith Behind the Minnesota Assassinations
“It’s that kind of language that led Frederick Clarkson, a senior research analyst at the progressive Political Research Associates, to take a closer look at Boelter’s religious background. The suspect attended Christ for the Nations Institute in Dallas and appears to have links to a growing movement within evangelical Christianity called 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 (NAR). (The Christ for the Nations Institute has condemned the Minnesota shootings.)
‘You don’t talk about apostles and prophets, God sending apostles and prophets, unless you have some orientation to NAR,’ Clarkson told Ms.
Clarkson also saw clues in at least one text that Boelter sent to his wife and other family members a few hours after the shootings. ‘Dad went to war last night … I don’t wanna say more because I don’t wanna implicate anybody,’ he wrote, according to an affidavit filed by an FBI agent.
NAR adherents commonly use language of war because they reject the doctrines and institutions of the church, according to Clarkson, who has been studying the NAR movement for years.”