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Religion Dispatches

Meet the Top 24 Leaders of the New Apostolic Reformation in the U.S.

Get to know the under-the-radar leaders of a movement that helped organize January 6 and continues to pose a threat to American democracy.
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…
Frederick Clarkson
André Gagné
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Side view of Apostle Dutch Sheets posing thoughtfully against a wooden sign that reads "An Appeal to Heaven"
Religion Dispatches

Taking Aim at Religion Itself, Apostles Prime Networks For 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…
Frederick Clarkson
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Religion Dispatches

'Exporting Garbage to the Nations': Conservative Christian Rifts Spreading Like 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…
Frederick Clarkson
André Gagné
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Religion Dispatches

Evidence Strongly Suggests Trump Was Collaborating with Christian Nationalist Leaders Before January 6th

On December 22, the House Select Committee investigating the January 6th Capitol Riot released its report, reopening the question of what forces and figures incited the insurrection as we observe its…
Matthew D. Taylor
Bradley Onishi
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Religion Dispatches

Call it 'Christian Globalism': A Reporter's Guide to the 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…
Frederick Clarkson
André Gagné
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Religion Dispatches

Statement on NAR & Christian Nationalism Answers Few Questions But Exposes Growing Rifts in the 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…
Frederick Clarkson
André Gagné
Article
Religion Dispatches

When it Comes to Societal Dominion, the Details Matter: A Reporter’s Guide to the New Apostolic Reformation, Part II

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…
Frederick Clarkson
André Gagné
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Religion Dispatches

White Nationalist Ideology Shines Through at Elite MAGA Conference: Inside NatCon Part II

Below is the second of a two-part report on the third National Conservatism Conference that took place in Miami, FL from September 11 - September 13, 2022. Read Part I here . “Exercise your dominion…
Ben Lorber
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Religion Dispatches

Christian Right Denialism is More Dangerous Than Ever: A Reporter’s Guide to the 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…
Frederick Clarkson
André Gagné
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Religion Dispatches

Book Bannings Are Bad Enough, But Where Those Involved Are Considered Demonic, the Stakes Could Get Much Higher

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…
Frederick Clarkson
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