https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to c. peter wagner en https://religiondispatches.org/2024/02/27/taking-aim-religion-itself-apostles-prime-networks-real-world-violence It is more than paradoxical that an ostensibly Christian university leader would say, “We are here to put a knife to the throat of religion.” But that’s what Apostle Greg Hood, the founder of Kingdom University in Franklin, Tennessee believes… Tue, 27 Feb 2024 04:44:52 EST Frederick Clarkson b3ae5102-1a3b-422e-9dad-e63275bc8c0c https://religiondispatches.org/2023/06/27/joels-army-already-here-obscure-20th-century-religious-movement-profoundly-influences Anyone who’s been paying attention to the rhetoric of the religious and political Right has heard it: the sound of a critical moment in a bad horror movie. It’s the moment when we learn that the demons are us —which… Tue, 27 Jun 2023 02:01:12 EDT Frederick Clarkson, André Gagné 25b20b06-c60c-4d8a-b3e5-68cccd88f7bb https://religiondispatches.org/2023/01/13/exporting-garbage-nations-conservative-christian-rifts-spreading-cracked-glass The conservative Christian base of the Republican Party has never been as monolithic as it sometimes seems. This has recently been on vivid display in Pennsylvania, where rifts among conservative evangelical Christians are spreading like cracked glass. New cracks appeared… Fri, 13 Jan 2023 02:32:26 EST Frederick Clarkson, André Gagné 7d3fb46b-2bd4-4df8-b449-f0ecb64a0782 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/11/30/call-it-christian-globalism-reporters-guide-new-apostolic-reformation-part-iii This is the final installment of a three-part series. Read Part I: Christian Right Denialism is More Dangerous Than Ever: A Reporter’s Guide to the New Apostolic Reformation & Part II: When it Comes to Societal Dominion, the Details Matter… Wed, 30 Nov 2022 03:36:57 EST Frederick Clarkson, André Gagné 96e9c9e6-25ea-40f3-9448-44e8de87b335 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/10/21/statement-nar-christian-nationalism-answers-few-questions-exposes-growing-rifts-movement Some of the leaders of the New Apostolic Reformation —the dynamic edge and fresh movement of much of neo-charismatic and Pentecostal Christianity in the 21st Century—have revealed their movement to be in disarray. Over 60 leaders have signed a statement… Fri, 21 Oct 2022 06:16:39 EDT Frederick Clarkson, André Gagné 53cdf084-9683-479a-a30e-f11df2603a38 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/10/11/when-it-comes-societal-dominion-details-matter-reporters-guide-new-apostolic-reformation This is the second of a three-part series. Read Part I: Christian Right Denialism is More Dangerous Than Ever: A Reporter’s Guide to the New Apostolic Reformation & Part III: Call it ‘Christian Globalism’ The apostles of the New Apostolic… Tue, 11 Oct 2022 05:18:30 EDT Frederick Clarkson, André Gagné c7951cc4-b8e4-4774-b257-c81cb59ecce0 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/09/07/christian-right-denialism-more-dangerous-ever-reporters-guide-new-apostolic-reformation While the Christian Right has been an increasingly powerful factor in American politics for decades, it has benefited from a strangely persistent culture of denialism. We needn’t review the number of times that reporters, scholars, and religious leaders who should… Wed, 07 Sep 2022 08:22:53 EDT Frederick Clarkson, André Gagné 3da0190d-0c44-4969-a0a6-fd72208acf8b https://religiondispatches.org/2022/09/01/book-bannings-are-bad-enough-where-those-involved-are-considered-demonic-stakes-could Calls for, or at least predictions of, revolution or civil war have been common on the religious and political Right for decades. This has been particularly so among leaders of the Christian revivalist movement, the New Apostolic Reformation, in recent… Thu, 01 Sep 2022 12:39:52 EDT Frederick Clarkson cd774fcd-5ee8-4090-b7e6-94ce432d0f0e https://religiondispatches.org/2022/08/09/new-apostolic-reformation-faces-profound-rift-due-trump-prophecies-and-spiritual Updated 8/16/22: The authors’ response to a correction request follows the article. - eds Four weeks after the January 6th insurrection , two leaders of the revivalist New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) were concerned about the future of their movement. They… Tue, 09 Aug 2022 04:47:29 EDT Frederick Clarkson, André Gagné df1661fe-75bc-48f7-bb71-e56b9cdfc1be https://religiondispatches.org/2021/08/09/whats-missing-popular-discussions-todays-christian-nationalism If you want to know where the Republican Party is headed, you need to set aside your assumptions and simply listen to what its leaders and activists say—especially when they’re talking amongst themselves. As a reporter and author on the… Mon, 09 Aug 2021 03:37:44 EDT Katherine Stewart 66119b48-f33a-4bdb-9132-15093a340a05 https://religiondispatches.org/2021/05/25/convergence-far-right-anti-democratic-factions-northwest-could-provide-model-rest-nation The city of Spokane, Washington sits at the eastern edge of the state—a mountain range and a cultural world away from the Pacific coast. It looks eastward to Idaho and Montana, and south to Eastern Oregon, where far right secessionist… Tue, 25 May 2021 10:41:18 EDT Frederick Clarkson, Cloee Cooper 9dcc3174-38a6-4d3a-8ce7-a207551dabe5 https://religiondispatches.org/2020/08/03/spiritual-warfare-worldview-trumps-conspiracy-doctor-part-transnational-movement Dr. Stella Immanuel received considerable attention after President Donald Trump retweeted a video where she recommends the use of hydroxychloroquine and asserts that masks are unnecessary to halt the transmission of COVID-19. More information about the actors who funded the… Mon, 03 Aug 2020 12:23:39 EDT André Gagné 05b39293-4c42-436f-9fef-852b5c241912 https://religiondispatches.org/2020/07/30/only-surprising-thing-about-demon-sperm-doctors-views-theyre-shared-many-evangelicals On Monday, in a since-deleted tweet, President Trump shared a video of Houston-based, Cameroonian-American doctor Stella Immanuel touting the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine for treating COVID-19. On its own, of course, there’s nothing particularly newsworthy about this; the President has been… Thu, 30 Jul 2020 05:16:28 EDT Lenny J. Lowe 92f3f600-91b5-4000-a22c-9e91e66ef282 https://religiondispatches.org/2012/08/08/hbos-game-change-hits-sarah-palin-pic-misses-religion Game Change reveals what no one else apparently has the chutzpah to say: that Sarah Palin was the opening salvo in the the dissolution and destruction of the Republican Party. Wed, 08 Aug 2012 08:12:59 EDT Anthea Butler 03319245-4c7c-43b2-8db2-c8f82ae40ea6 https://religiondispatches.org/2012/04/17/beyond-alarmism-and-denial-dominionism-debate The New Apostolic Reformation has been in the news a great deal since Rick Perry first announced his prayer rally, The Response. Sarah Posner has an investigative journalist’s view of this movement, its place in religious movements of the 20th and 21st centuries, and in politics. Here she is in conversation with Anthea Butler, a scholar of American religious history. Tue, 17 Apr 2012 02:20:41 EDT Anthea Butler cd288381-add0-4d09-8962-0d4959ed94a1 https://religiondispatches.org/2011/10/11/robert-jeffress-has-lot-nerve What happens when evangelicals bring theological debates into presidential politics. Tue, 11 Oct 2011 07:08:40 EDT Sarah Posner f6b77c78-be3c-442f-b681-ea1f7c0588fd https://religiondispatches.org/2011/08/23/paranoia-and-progressive-press-response-wapos-religion-columnist Last week, Lisa Miller, religion writer and editor ( Newsweek and the Washington Post) filed an op-ed in which she fulminated against “the left” and journalists who have raised concerns about the influence of dominionist thinkers on Republican presidential candidates like Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry. Tue, 23 Aug 2011 09:10:28 EDT Peter Montgomery 8cf4a502-6b5e-4010-82e6-e3cba3424dd6 https://religiondispatches.org/2011/08/08/rick-perrys-jesus-imperative-report-saturdays-mega-rally The people who gathered at Reliant Stadium are not just Rick Perry’s spiritual army, raised up, as Perry and others imagine it, in the spirit of Joel 2 to sound an alarm and prepare the people for Judgment Day. They are the ground troops the religious right set out four decades ago to create, and duplicate over generations, for the ongoing culture wars. Mon, 08 Aug 2011 03:12:42 EDT Sarah Posner 9f95f1ea-3cce-47ff-82a7-340a373b336d https://religiondispatches.org/2011/07/19/rick-perry-and-new-apostolic-reformation Nothing new, only a little bit different. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 02:09:50 EDT Sarah Posner ec7fc7bf-ad21-43cb-9b91-585138ae9466 https://religiondispatches.org/2009/12/02/recovering-rejection-second-coming-ted-haggard Still sexually confused (but not gay) ex-megapastor Ted Haggard is preaching again—and his old friends, James Dobson among them, are not happy about it. Forgiveness only goes so far, apparently, in the world of far-right evangelicalism. Wed, 02 Dec 2009 08:29:30 EST Wendy Norris a03e3c2f-6f52-478e-a32d-9d58ed2a8423 https://religiondispatches.org/2009/09/14/heresy-bad-taste-or-capitalist-adventure-it-still-pentecostalism In this chronicle of mutations within the Pentecostal movement, we learn to distinguish among the Prosperity Gospel, Word of Faith, and New Apostolic Movements—and we learn why it matters. Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:47:25 EDT Anthea Butler 35302d0d-4160-4822-bc38-e52b854205ec https://religiondispatches.org/2009/07/16/prosperity-spiritual-warfare-and-demand-god Given that so many powerful Pentecostals and Charismatics, like Senator John Ensign and Sarah Palin, are embroiled in high-profile scandals, one might expect to hear more about the movements that unite them. Anthea Butler, a leading scholar on Pentecostalism and American religious history, traces the various movements and their theologies of wealth, healing, and dominion. Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:18:28 EDT Anthea Butler 069db321-e911-4bc8-a157-83c5c4296a70 https://religiondispatches.org/2009/06/22/new-christianity-what-mainstream-media-has-missed To cover a new religious movement, you have to know that the movement exists. An interview with Bruce Wilson. Mon, 22 Jun 2009 09:33:02 EDT Bill Berkowitz bd03cd79-377a-4439-85a5-0b90ebaa9b20 https://religiondispatches.org/2009/06/22/fighting-demons-raising-dead-taking-over-world Is this still Christianity? Bruce Wilson offers a primer on what has been called “Third Wave Christianity,” a global movement now almost 300 million-strong whose adherents believe they can abolish evil from the world by hunting witches, chasing demons from city limits, and getting Sarah Palin elected. Mon, 22 Jun 2009 09:30:51 EDT Bruce Wilson 961f7d09-2d21-4377-a9ad-bd805fee93cb https://religiondispatches.org/2009/06/19/what-name-crusades-are-tennessee-evangelicals-doing-kurdish-iraq In an exclusive interview, investigative reporter Mike Reynolds uncovers the special relationship between Iraqi Kurds and a group of American evangelicals that practices “spiritual warfare,” harbors a deep animosity toward Islam, and views the region as the evangelistic final frontier. Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:51:30 EDT Bill Berkowitz d6cd8535-1840-46c9-b475-261b92d0a8d9