https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to New Apostolic Reform­ation en https://religiondispatches.org/2026/04/02/meet-top-24-leaders-new-apostolic-reformation-us Given the threat to America’s democratic institutions and aspirations posed by the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR), it’s alarming that the movement’s leading figures aren’t well or widely known. Many, particularly those involved in creating a revolution against established institutions, would… Thu, 02 Apr 2026 03:59:06 EDT Frederick Clarkson, André Gagné a0079a9c-e937-40e8-b5d7-83d9171ec6c3 https://religiondispatches.org/2026/02/25/allegations-sexual-abuse-emerge-influential-bethel-church Heartbreaking allegations of sexual abuse at Bethel Church , a charismatic megachurch in Redding, California, has recently come to light. Bob Hartley, previously one of the core “prophets” at the International House of Prayer at Kansas City (IHOP-KC), used his… Wed, 25 Feb 2026 05:13:13 EST Keri Ladner ea881194-cee7-4dc7-af1d-f7c76b6d6876 https://politicalresearch.org/2025/10/15/its-not-backlash-its-strategy In this roundtable, Chelsea Ebin, Matthew Taylor, and Julie Ingersoll discuss the intersection of today’s New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) and the New Christian Right of 1970s and 1980s formed by conservative Catholics and Protestants. Building from Ebin’s The Radical Mind… Wed, 15 Oct 2025 12:00:00 EDT Matthew Taylor, Julie Ingersoll, Chelsea Ebin 6d798d19-9554-49e6-972b-e5e5aff1507a https://religiondispatches.org/2025/10/09/nar-vows-stage-largest-ever-gathering-christian-women Last year on Yom Kippur, leaders of the New Apostolic Reformation staged an all-day rally in support of Donald Trump’s bid for the presidency called A Million Women . As was the case with the Million Man March and so… Thu, 09 Oct 2025 11:47:34 EDT Frederick Clarkson cb39a01e-e8b9-484e-b13e-606114ad01cc https://religiondispatches.org/2024/12/12/trump-administrations-approach-immigration-inspired-bible-book-revelation Trump recently appointed Tom Homan as his ‘ border czar ,’ a first step toward implementing a scorched-earth immigration policy that includes large-scale detention of migrants and mass deportation (perhaps even for American citizens ). While his policies have been… Thu, 12 Dec 2024 12:01:27 EST Yii-Jan Lin 167d120f-d33f-4c90-b708-87febc950dd8 https://religiondispatches.org/2024/12/10/coverage-tucker-carlsons-demonic-assault-missed-importance-man-he-shared-story “Physically mauled” is how Tucker Carlson refers to the alleged demonic assault he suffered in his own bed a year ago. Carlson’s comments, clipped from a larger documentary, have been covered by a variety of news outlets and social media… Tue, 10 Dec 2024 01:14:09 EST Sarah Riccardi-Swartz 1f351e11-b5e6-4e30-847d-74e1de9b014c https://religiondispatches.org/2024/11/05/dark-horse-stop-steal-scenario-nar-leaders-sought-trojan-horse-election-offices-filled Over the past 24 hours you’ve likely heard stories about election workers facing pressure to support conspiracy theories, receiving bomb threats , or being intimidated by self-appointed monitors . These things have happened as political and religious leaders have long… Tue, 05 Nov 2024 05:58:34 EST Frederick Clarkson 4c361fd5-6d3b-4ec8-bbd6-5cfef2039ae1 https://religiondispatches.org/2024/11/01/jezebel-spirit-isnt-just-bible-based-misogyny-its-literal-demon-so-what-happens-when Most people, to the extent that they heard about it at all, probably interpreted the connection between Jezebel and Kamala Harris made by conservative Christians as more or less an expression of sexism and racism filtered through a biblical lens… Fri, 01 Nov 2024 02:19:53 EDT Michael E. Heyes 36888216-9918-4f71-9bc4-b26b9fae9c5b https://religiondispatches.org/2024/10/22/heritage-foundations-christian-nationalist-project-esther-wont-combat-antisemitism-it On the anniversary of October 7, the Heritage Foundation released Project Esther: A National Strategy to Combat Antisemitism. The 33-page document calls on the federal government to use counterterrorism, immigration, surveillance, intelligence gathering and other apparatuses to “disrupt and degrade”… Tue, 22 Oct 2024 04:19:40 EDT Ben Lorber 037428b4-99dc-4570-bdae-c52e060b160f https://religiondispatches.org/2024/10/17/packed-threats-political-violence-media-largely-ignore-nars-million-women-rally-dc On October 12th one of the most remarkable political statements of any religious leader in this or any election season was broadcast live from an all-day rally of tens of thousands of people on the Washington Mall. The event, called… Thu, 17 Oct 2024 05:52:56 EDT Frederick Clarkson d7011e5c-ba42-4a40-91e7-5d12eb329deb https://religiondispatches.org/2024/07/29/rising-influence-new-apostolic-reformation-teachings-ominous-sign-us-especially-lgbtq Whether or not anyone recognizes it by name, the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) is hitting its stride. After his June declaration that “every teacher, every classroom… will be teaching from the Bible,” Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters, who… Mon, 29 Jul 2024 11:48:35 EDT Jonathon Sawyer 5e940aa4-aa08-44ac-b58e-d8e19bf46bb7 https://religiondispatches.org/2024/06/10/rising-christian-right-movement-new-apostolic-reformation-emerged-mid-20th-century In the days leading up to January 6, 2021, a New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) group known as Jericho March organized groups of Christians to pray, fast, and march around government buildings in Washington DC, in protest of the election results… Mon, 10 Jun 2024 04:12:24 EDT Keri Ladner eca09ba6-4bd4-4265-ae38-d117396430d2 https://religiondispatches.org/2024/05/23/first-it-was-insurrection-flag-now-supreme-court-justice-alito-caught-flying-another-far Some things regarding the Supreme Court are not surprising. For example: Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito who, along with Clarence Thomas forms the extreme Right flank of this Court (which is saying something), doesn’t like women very much. Or abortion… Thu, 23 May 2024 08:58:44 EDT Annika Brockschmidt dea7d5c3-022f-4f73-9b22-4e6e12cc4482 https://religiondispatches.org/2024/05/23/reporters-guide-new-apostolic-reformation-revised-2025 The story of the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) lives at the epicenter of the intersection of politics and religion in the US—and reporting about it is as essential as it is challenging. The story of NAR is happening in the… Thu, 23 May 2024 04:58:12 EDT Frederick Clarkson, André Gagné 718434ec-a88e-45dd-910b-153d686ea9bf https://religiondispatches.org/2024/05/10/wheres-wallnau-nar-apostle-takes-aim-swing-counties-battle-mountain-government Just as they prophesied Trump’s victory and collaborated in the 2020 attempted coup, the Trump wing of the New Apostolic Reformation is on the offensive once again, waging a campaign in counties they think will swing the 2024 presidential election… Fri, 10 May 2024 05:22:29 EDT Frederick Clarkson 8198eb41-dfac-463b-b7a7-3c59af04b5d8 https://religiondispatches.org/2024/03/12/new-research-suggests-belief-demons-may-help-explain-christian-support-trump In a strange way, I envy the people who were raised as evangelical Christians in the 1980s and 1990s, because many of them got to experience This Present Darkness in a way I never could. For the uninitiated, This Present… Tue, 12 Mar 2024 01:57:54 EDT Robert Repino 897d1df0-d1b6-4c44-bff6-e5cbc042879a https://religiondispatches.org/2024/03/05/alabamas-ivf-ruling-reveals-deep-ties-increasingly-influential-christian-right-movement In the Alabama Supreme Court’s IVF ruling that sent shockwaves through the country, the word “God” appears 41 times—and that’s no coincidence. Embryos, according to Alabama’s highest court, are in fact “extrauterine children”—a phrase so dystopian it would make Margaret… Tue, 05 Mar 2024 05:29:17 EST Annika Brockschmidt e4a60f3b-6173-4b0b-ab29-7719222b2f20 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/2023/11/15/mike-johnsons-porn-monitoring-isnt-just-creepy-its-window-fascist-desire-driving-white When the news broke that the recently elected Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson (R-La), used a Christian technology service called Covenant Eyes to monitor his online habits for porn, reactions varied. The fact that his then-17-year-old son Jack served… Wed, 15 Nov 2023 02:20:20 EST Jessica Johnson eedc9446-99aa-4ad8-abef-7a963b394700 https://religiondispatches.org/2023/11/05/mike-johnson-isnt-just-your-average-christian-right-avatar-hes-influenced-fringe Who is Mike Johnson, the man with horn-rimmed glasses who managed to become Speaker of the House—something Steve Scalise, Jim Jordan and Tom Emmer all failed to do? And what does he have that the other three didn’t? Johnson comes… Sun, 05 Nov 2023 03:24:57 EST Annika Brockschmidt f2fd3406-8411-42fd-b1ae-3b41f2c5dbf9 https://religiondispatches.org/2023/10/04/its-not-name-its-theocratic-vision-new-apostolic-reformations-pr-problem The rifts in the New Apostolic Reformation that emerged last year have erupted into a full-blown identity crisis. This is a crisis born, in part, of the movement’s desire to project a benign Christian image to distract from public scrutiny… Wed, 04 Oct 2023 04:29:02 EDT Frederick Clarkson 1d542cc2-4477-49af-b6d4-c787ccd0d3b1 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/2023/05/16/spirit-january-6th-theology-seldom-discussed-movement-animates-growing-threat-us Listen to this article on the Inform Your Resistance podcast. Lance Wallnau, a prominent Apostle/Prophet in the Neo-Charismatic New Apostolic Reformation, had an unusual Easter message this year. Rather than a traditional message of hope and eternal life, he issued… Tue, 16 May 2023 04:12:56 EDT Frederick Clarkson, André Gagné 2749fe36-8052-41cf-ab8b-0b9e8b2e6a41 https://religiondispatches.org/2023/04/04/many-christian-zionists-israeli-protesters-are-threat-gods-plan Since Prime Minister Netanyahu and his far-right coalition have sought to curtail the powers of the Israeli judiciary, effectively seizing power in perpetuity , Israeli society has erupted into some of the largest sustained protests in its history. The world… Tue, 04 Apr 2023 12:50:45 EDT Aidan Orly 2d6922b5-9958-43c7-97b7-5a4336e7b99e 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