https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to spiritual warfare 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://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/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/2024/07/29/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/2024/05/23/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/2023/07/24/christian-nationalism-hurts-children-it-claims-protect-author-lillian-smith-understood Recently, an Indiana Moms for Liberty chapter included — and attributed — a quote from Adolf Hitler in their newsletter: “He alone, who OWNS the youth, GAINS the future.” After backlash, the chapter went into damage control and chapter chair… Mon, 24 Jul 2023 03:18:51 EDT Matthew Teutsch, Emma Williams 5f140ad7-6fe2-4cda-b015-b5e7833e0076 https://religiondispatches.org/2023/07/07/apocalyptic-rhetoric-moms-liberty-summit-illustrates-political-challenge-2024 As Annika Brockschmidt has already detailed for readers of RD, the June 30 – July 2 Moms for Liberty summit in Philadelphia was, among other things, a Christian nationalist gathering. At one of its main events, which took place at… Fri, 07 Jul 2023 04:43:53 EDT Chrissy Stroop 2f4f5ba1-6e10-4395-9607-ee20c7d7d1b8 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/2023/04/18/dragged-through-mud-little-church-backed-support-group-lgbtq-teens-suffered-bomb-threats “Twenty years ago I thought now would be better. And it’s not.” That’s how Tiffany Vasquez, a longtime resident of Roseville, California, feels after weeks of vicious right-wing attacks on the local LGBTQ community—attacks that are part of an increasingly… Tue, 18 Apr 2023 05:29:15 EDT Chrissy Stroop 1d99a2ef-0f38-442f-ba14-429adebdcf74 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/2023/01/11/coups-feather-striking-similarities-between-brazils-insurrection-and-jan-6-may-be-due The images were eerily similar: Insurrectionists were storming the halls of Congress, beating police officers who tried to fend them off, wreaking havoc in the offices of legislators, desecrating the very symbol of democracy itself— all in the name of… Wed, 11 Jan 2023 02:54:25 EST Annika Brockschmidt f9fdf7a3-8b05-459a-8079-5a6e36adfb88 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/2022/11/14/shofars-hammers-spiritual-warriors-maga-are-reawakening-political-violence For two days in late October, I attended Clay Clarke’s MAGA-driven ReAwaken America Tour near my home in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Keynote speakers included a predictable Who’s Who of Trump surrogates, including Michael Flynn, Mike Lindell, Roger Stone, and Eric… Mon, 14 Nov 2022 04:07:16 EST Mark Clatterbuck f0233696-9d5c-4bd0-907d-393c56014327 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/06/16/republican-lauren-boebert-jokes-about-ar-15s-and-jesus-and-yes-shes-real-christian In the aftermath of the Buffalo and Uvalde shootings —and the 54 mass shootings ( and counting ) that have happened since—America’s right-wing Christians have been busy defending their “ god-given ” right to own AR-15s. Like they always do… Thu, 16 Jun 2022 04:39:05 EDT Chrissy Stroop 7d022ced-e789-401b-9b60-ae36f0735bef https://religiondispatches.org/2022/05/24/its-theology-stupid-why-shocking-sbc-report-anything-surprising On Sunday, an investigation firm called Guidepost Solutions released a 300-page report recounting a disturbingly familiar pattern of abuse and cover-up in the Southern Baptist Convention, the mostly white, evangelical Protestant denomination that accounts for over 5% of the adult… Tue, 24 May 2022 05:22:59 EDT Chrissy Stroop, Jessica Johnson 2c4cfa52-e3ce-47fa-aafd-0aeba8705786 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/04/27/conservative-judge-suing-daily-beast-qanon-linked-headline-thought-qanon-pod-was-aimed Paula Patrick, a conservative judge in Philadelphia perhaps best known for being on the wrong side of a Christopher Columbus statue controversy , objects to being called “ QAnon-linked .” In fact, she’s filed a false light suit (similar to… Wed, 27 Apr 2022 03:32:10 EDT Chrissy Stroop 8352f854-4b0c-40ce-887e-d02672465ece 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/2022/04/05/demons-held-responsible-these-days-everything-covid-lgbtq-rights-take-visual-tour During our season of political madness , it took a lot to trigger a double-take, and yet a pro-Trump, Covid-denialist pediatrician named Stella Immanuel declaring that illness was caused by the semen of demons was an exemplary case. Dr. Immanuel… Tue, 05 Apr 2022 06:41:18 EDT Ed Simon b56f739c-c520-476b-9177-4d7c90f59b69 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/03/31/white-nationalist-fringe-just-took-giant-step-closer-center-gop “White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization—how did that language become offensive? Why did I sit in classes teaching me about the merits of our history and our civilization?” It was this statement that finally got Steve King, the former Iowa… Thu, 31 Mar 2022 05:30:04 EDT Annika Brockschmidt aed51690-d140-435a-9147-b8fb20056339 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/02/20/leaked-freedom-convoy-donor-comments-clearly-demonstrate-christian-nationalist-presence As the “ freedom convoy” slowly but surely winds down —with police forces and the RCMP moving in to cordon off the center of the city, arresting leaders of the insurrection and preventing new people from joining—journalists and scholars are… Sun, 20 Feb 2022 12:45:35 EST Thomas Lecaque 3c69b094-7a5c-448c-a433-c0aabd7f52fc