https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to seven mountains 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/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/2023/01/13/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/2023/01/06/evidence-strongly-suggests-trump-was-collaborating-christian-nationalist-leaders-january 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 two-year anniversary. Yet, as numerous observers have noticed, the… Fri, 06 Jan 2023 09:47:02 EST Matthew D. Taylor, Bradley Onishi e45d5649-75da-422d-81de-9396248c9d77 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/2022/10/04/white-nationalist-ideology-shines-through-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, O Lord, over this nation”… Tue, 04 Oct 2022 05:23:09 EDT Ben Lorber 8b40abd3-629f-4727-a893-35feb44bb83d 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/2022/07/07/when-religious-freedom-means-freedom-religious-violence Religious freedom has long been a rallying cry of the religious and political right. In recent years, it’s been used to provide a rationale for exemptions from a variety of civil right laws. But at least since January 6 th… Thu, 07 Jul 2022 03:51:18 EDT Frederick Clarkson 290d1d1c-03e0-4adb-99f3-0f1ca77df92b https://religiondispatches.org/2022/04/18/how-pentecostal-christianity-taking-over-world-interview-author-elle-hardy Australian-born journalist Elle Hardy’s exposé of global Pentecostalism, released in November by an independent UK publisher, didn’t receive a tremendous amount of attention in the United States —one of the nations where the movement itself has flourished. In the following… Mon, 18 Apr 2022 04:44:55 EDT Katherine Stewart 57016115-c2c3-4412-a997-eccbfab68567 https://religiondispatches.org/2021/11/28/baby-we-were-born-war-dominionist-christian-groups-no-election-too-small-and-colorado “Man, as many people as we have in this school here, we ought to take over Woodland Park.” Thus spake theocratic leader Andrew Wommack at a political mobilization conference in April at the Charis Bible College he heads. He hasn’t… Sun, 28 Nov 2021 07:48:59 EST Frederick Clarkson a6f362c1-0e46-4cb6-9eb7-34aa525e583f https://religiondispatches.org/2021/10/26/if-every-church-said-we-will-take-over-our-community-christian-right-revolution-starts One of the features of the rise of the Christian Right has been the development of institutional infrastructure. From the rise of televangelism and conservative think tanks in the 1970s and 80s, to the creation of national political organizations beginning… Tue, 26 Oct 2021 04:35:05 EDT Frederick Clarkson 9a8642e5-5883-4cd3-b551-10c0ac563cf2 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/2021/03/30/teflon-antichrist-how-did-president-who-fit-role-so-well-avoid-label One of the more unexpected developments of Donald Trump’s presidency was his metamorphosis into an evangelical hero. American Christians didn’t just like his policies, they venerated him as a near supernatural being — the last hope against Antichrist. Such a… Tue, 30 Mar 2021 03:06:44 EDT Jay Rubenstein b0fdcdfa-742c-4c1c-90be-01ef5f97bf3a https://religiondispatches.org/2020/07/10/state-director-christian-right-legislative-group-project-blitz-calls-lynching-rep-ilhan UPDATE, July 27, 2020: Rev. Dale Witherington recently returned to the scene of his Facebook crime and wrote that he would be taking time away from Facebook and deleting his app. This was three days after the political blog Bluestem… Fri, 10 Jul 2020 12:47:36 EDT Frederick Clarkson 218525b6-8435-479d-9383-68b7ea110127 https://religiondispatches.org/2020/04/02/new-study-christian-nationalism-texas-should-be-warning-whole-country “Our Fathers intended that this nation should be a Christian nation, not because all who lived in it were Christians, but because it was founded on and would be governed and guided by Christian principles.” ― David Barton, The Myth… Thu, 02 Apr 2020 11:38:44 EDT David R. Brockman 63477e6b-ed32-4b52-a569-b333b462da3e https://religiondispatches.org/2019/06/24/recent-local-controversy-reveals-theocratic-heart-project-blitz The Christian nationalist intentions of Project Blitz have also received much attention, but a remarkable episode in Minnesota this past state legislative session may be a harbinger of a more profoundly theocratic politics on the horizon. Mon, 24 Jun 2019 12:26:03 EDT Frederick Clarkson 517979ff-f650-4f79-bbe0-e3fa3dfcdd3d 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/2011/07/19/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