{"id":6720,"date":"2024-09-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.charming-bohr.160-238-31-172.plesk.page\/index.php\/2024\/09\/01\/americas-spiritual-warriors\/"},"modified":"2024-09-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T00:00:00","slug":"americas-spiritual-warriors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.charming-bohr.160-238-31-172.plesk.page\/index.php\/2024\/09\/01\/americas-spiritual-warriors\/","title":{"rendered":"America\u2019s Spiritual Warriors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=&quot;s1&quot;><strong>What helped fuel the toxic blend of religious and political fervor displayed by some on January 6, 2021? For anyone seeking answers, <\/strong><\/span><span class=&quot;s2&quot;><strong>The New Apostolic Reformation <\/strong><\/span><span class=&quot;s1&quot;><strong>may be the most important movement you\u2019ve never heard of.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span class=&quot;s4&quot;>Illustrations by Scott Bakal<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s an insurgent new political force in American Christianity that is bringing about a powerful realignment, a tectonic shift, in the culture and leadership of the Christian right. This change has been under way for at least the past decade, and, at the heart of it, running like a golden thread throughout, is a little-known and even less understood network of Christian leaders called the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR).*<\/p>\n<p><span class=&quot;s1&quot;>In this article, I\u2019ll narrate the NAR\u2019s history, but first we need some scene-setting, because it emerges from a vitally important but off-the-beaten-path sector of Christianity. The NAR leaders operate within the wild and woolly world of Independent Charismatic Christianity. \u201cIndependent\u201d here means nondenominational. These are churches and ministries and communities that resist the regulations and bureaucracy of denominations. \u201cCharismatic\u201d refers to a spirituality built around re-creating the supernatural dimensions of the early church through prophecy, speaking in tongues, miracles, and so forth. Just to give you a sense of the numbers here: experts estimate that there were close to 44 million Independent Charismatics in the world in 1970. Fifty years later, by 2020, it was north of 312 million.<sup>1<\/sup> That means that, globally, the population of nondenominational charismatic Christians is consistently doubling in size every two decades.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=&quot;image&quot;><img style=&quot;aspect-ratio:1200\/800;&quot; src=&quot;https:\/\/www.charming-bohr.160-238-31-172.plesk.page\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2024-5-2_1.jpg&quot; width=&quot;1200&quot; height=&quot;800&quot;><\/figure>\n<p><strong>\u201cProphetic\u201d Voices<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The dramatic story of the NAR and American politics began forty years ago at Fuller Theological Seminary, a flagship evangelical training school in Pasadena, California. Enter stage right\u2014an avuncular Fuller professor named C. Peter Wagner. Wagner was an expert in \u201cchurch growth,\u201d a faddish evangelical effort to engineer megachurches and mass movements through applied social sciences. He did not come from the charismatic world, but it mesmerized him in the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>Eager to unlock the secrets of fast-growing Christian movements, Wagner broke ranks from the mainstream evangelical academics and started hanging out with some of the more rough-and-tumble nondenominational charismatic evangelicals. One of these was Cindy Jacobs, a self-described prophet, who met Wagner in 1989. Jacobs claimed to hear directly from God and speak God\u2019s words like the biblical prophets, even intoning an Old Testament-ish \u201cThe Lord says\u201d before letting loose a prophecy.<sup>2<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>At their first meeting, Jacobs told Wagner about her work as a prophet coordinating massive prayer campaigns to dislodge high-level demons, and he was hooked. These were the sorts of concepts and strategies that he was hoping to discover out in the charismatic hinterlands.<\/p>\n<p>Jacobs became Wagner\u2019s tour guide through an Independent Charismatic world that was blossoming with talent and energy. One provocative theology rippling through charismatic circles at the time was belief in the modern-day restoration of apostles and prophets, foundational church leadership roles described in the New Testament but that have disappeared in most Christian traditions. Cindy Jacobs and her friends believed God was reconstituting these roles for a great end-times revival, and she began introducing Wagner to various of her apostle and prophet friends.<\/p>\n<p>Always open to new ideas and wild church-growth strategies, Wagner loved this new leader\u00adship conception. He even came to believe, through personal prophecies from Jacobs and her prophet friends, that he himself was a modern-day apostle, commissioned to help instigate a massive global revival.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning in 1996, Wagner took to calling this whole spiritual warfare, apostles-and-\u200bprophets, global-revival paradigm the \u201cNew Apostolic Reformation.\u201d He thought it was a revolution in church governance on the level of the Protestant Reformation,<sup>3<\/sup> and Wagner\u2019s devoted followers sometimes depicted him as a \u201cMartin Luther of our age.\u201d<sup>4<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Many of the most talented and ambitious young leaders of the charismatic world became mentees of Peter Wagner in the 1990s. Some of these upstart apostles and prophets would go on to become charismatic celebrities: Cindy Jacobs is one of the most celebrated Christian prophets in the world today. A pastor and prophet with the memorable name of Dutch Sheets, a friend of Jacobs\u2019 who linked up with Wagner in the 1990s, is an acclaimed author and speaker today, having sold millions of copies of his books. Che\u0301 Ahn, a local Pasadena pastor and Fuller Seminary student who signed on to Wagner\u2019s NAR program, today leads a network of tens of thousands of churches in more than 60 countries.<sup>5<\/sup> Wagner\u2019s inner circle was the hottest ticket in charismatic town.<\/p>\n<p>In 1999 Wagner decided to retire early from Fuller to pursue this NAR project full-time. What he managed to accomplish before his full retirement in 2010 was nothing short of remarkable. Spurred by his new self-\u00adconception of being an apostle with a global mission, C. Peter Wagner built an infrastructure for the NAR\u2014designing peer-to-peer networks of leaders with hundreds of eager and enterprising apostles and prophets joining in.<sup>6<\/sup><\/p>\n<p><strong>Expanding Ambitions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=&quot;s1&quot;>The NAR began as an effort to revolutionize the church, bringing to bear what Wagner called the \u201cSecond Apostolic Age\u201d (the first being the early church).<sup>7<\/sup> But a major pivot in focus began in 2001, when Wagner met a pastor\/consultant\/prophet\/motivational speaker named Lance Wallnau. Wallnau had cobbled together some different fragments of prophecies to shape a framework he called the Seven Mountain Mandate (7M).<sup>8<\/sup> In Wallnau\u2019s schema, the Seven Mountains were different arenas of influence in society\u2014government, religion, media, arts and entertainment, education, family, business. The \u201cmandate\u201d was from God for Christians to conquer the tops of all these \u201cmountains\u201d of culture causing Christian dominance to reconfigure society from the top down. 7M was part prophecy, part social-change theory, part strategy for Christian supremacy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=&quot;s1&quot;>Wagner embraced the whole 7M model, believing it to be a divine blueprint for Christianizing the world. He later exhorted his fellow apostles that the Seven Mountains represented \u201cthe most radical paradigm shift at least since I have been in Christian ministry which is well over half a century.\u201d<sup>9<\/sup> Having dedicated his career to growing the church, Wagner adopted Wallnau\u2019s totalizing vision for how Christians could move out of the church (the Religion Mountain) and bring Christian power and charismatic leadership to every segment of society.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In early 2008 Wagner and the NAR cohort rolled out a whole publicity campaign to spread the 7M and apostolic warfare concepts far and wide. Several 7M books were published, including Wagner\u2019s landmark book <i>Dominion! How Kingdom Action Can Change the World<\/i>. Jacobs, Wallnau, and Sheets were dispatched around the country to preach the gospel of global conquest.<\/p>\n<p>Their hopes were further spurred later that year when one of their most prominent followers was unexpectedly elevated as the Republican vice presidential candidate. Alaska governor Sarah Palin had been mentored by an NAR prophet in Alaska, and the NAR leaders believed Palin\u2019s candidacy was divinely ordained.<sup>10<\/sup> Dutch Sheets even prophetically declared that one day Palin herself would be president.<sup>11<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Of course, McCain and Palin lost that race to Barack Obama and Joe Biden. An outraged Dutch Sheets prophesied after the election near-apocalyptic calamities (\u201ceconomic woes . . . more violence . . . disease and death . . . natural disasters . . . terrorism\u201d)<sup>12<\/sup> would befall America for choosing a \u201cMuslim\u201d president.<sup>13<\/sup> The NAR networks entered a season of relative desolation.<\/p>\n<p>To be sure, piggybacking off the prodigious growth of Independent Charismatics worldwide, the NAR\u2019s extensive networks and influence continued to grow apace, encircling the globe with prayer networks and international apostolic alliances that would rival the largest global denominations. But at home they felt powerless, stymied by an American national government dominated by \u201cdemonic\u201d forces, with abortions (which NAR leaders view as a form of \u201cblood sacrifice that empowers demons\u201d)<sup>14<\/sup> continuing, and with unconscionable gay rights and religious pluralism ascendant all around them.<\/p>\n<p>From the depths of their outrage, Dutch Sheets issued a new prophecy in 2013, this one attached to a Revolutionary War flag with the phrase \u201cAn Appeal to Heaven\u201d\u2014a popular eighteenth-century slogan that roughly translates as \u201ctrial by combat\u201d\u2014emblazoned across the top.<sup>15<\/sup> Sheets urged the American church to appeal to heaven and begin a new spiritual revolution to overthrow the encroaching liberal tyranny. He created an NAR-propelled prayer and prophecy campaign to make the Appeal to Heaven flag a ubiquitous symbol of spiritual warfare\u2013driven Christian nationalism and the wholesale re-Christianization of society.<sup>16<\/sup><\/p>\n<p><strong>New Alliances<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By the start of the 2016 election cycle, the NAR was primed for political and spiritual combat. Some of them were excited about Ted Cruz, the son of a minor charismatic personality and 7M proponent;<sup>17<\/sup> others were hopeful that Marco Rubio, Ben Carson, or Mike Huckabee\u2014stalwart evangelicals to a man\u2014would become the Republican nominee.<\/p>\n<p>Enter stage left\u2014Donald Trump. When Trump landed in the Republican primary, the Independent Charismatic world perked up. Trump had the endless positivity and unrelenting salesmanship of a televangelist. In a world of charismatic celebrities and prophets whose entire existence is premised on their ability to keep audiences enraptured, Donald Trump was bone of their bone, flesh of their flesh.<\/p>\n<p><span class=&quot;s1&quot;>Trump enlisted his personal pastor, the Florida Independent Charismatic televangelist and apostle Paula White-Cain, to \u201cbe in charge of reaching out to the evangelicals.\u201d<sup>18<\/sup> White-Cain was an unusual choice for this role as a thrice-married female prosperity gospel preacher viewed as a de facto heretic by many straitlaced evangelical elites, so she didn\u2019t know the evangelical A-listers (the James Dobsons and Ralph Reeds of the world). Instead she drew a whole cohort of entrepreneurial and eccentric Independent Charismatic celebrities (the Lance Wallnaus and Kenneth Copelands of the world) into Trump\u2019s orbit.<sup>19<\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Lance Wallnau, originator of the Seven Mountains Mandate, was in some of the first meetings between Donald Trump and religious leaders at Trump Tower in the fall of 2015, by the invitation of Paula White-Cain. In fact, Wallnau would later claim that a new prophecy came to him when he stood in Trump\u2019s presence. \u201cThe forty-fifth president is meant to be an Isaiah 45 Cyrus,\u201d God purportedly said to Lance.<sup>20<\/sup> To translate: Cyrus the Great was the ancient Persian emperor who sent the Jewish people back from exile to rebuild Jerusalem. Through the prophet Isaiah, God calls Cyrus \u201cHis anointed,\u201d and that word in Hebrew is <i>mashiach<\/i>, which is where we get the word \u201cmessiah,\u201d as in, the anointed one. Wallnau was prophesying Trump as a sort of secular messiah, a heathen warrior king who would deliver conservative American Christianity from cultural exile.<\/p>\n<p>Trusting the prophetic intuitions of his longtime mentee, C. Peter Wagner, whose health was rapidly declining at the time, also jumped into the fray early in 2016 to endorse Trump, embracing Wallnau\u2019s Cyrus prophecy and arguing that \u201cin the Business Mountain and the Media Mountain Trump has accumulated $8\u201310 billion. He knows how to influence.\u201d<sup> 21<\/sup> Wagner would die in October 2016, just weeks before the election, but one of his final conscious acts, from his hospice bed, was to cast an absentee ballot for Donald Trump. His followers later attributed this as a final prophecy.<\/p>\n<p>C. Peter Wagner\u2019s endorsement of Trump didn\u2019t make any mainstream news headlines; he was an obscure charismatic apostle, outside the respectable evangelical limelight by then. But of all the Christian endorsements of Trump, Wagner\u2019s was one of the most consequential. His devoted NAR disciples and friends were all watching their mentor, and they followed the path Wagner and Wallnau blazed to become the vanguard of Christian Trumpism.<\/p>\n<p>Over the course of the 2016 campaign and the ensuing Trump presidency, the New Apostolic Reformation leaders, Wagner\u2019s heirs, positioned themselves as the chief Christian propagandists of Trump. Using Wallnau\u2019s catchy new Cyrus prophecy among others and deploying strategic spiritual warfare techniques, the NAR politically gathered and galvanized their fellow Independent Charismatics.<sup>22<\/sup> They became trusted evangelical advisors at the heart of Trump\u2019s outreach to conservative Christians.<\/p>\n<p><span class=&quot;s1&quot;>By the start of the 2020 campaign, the NAR leaders were Trump campaign insiders and proxies. Indeed, in November 2019 Paula White-Cain launched a prayer and spiritual warfare adjunct to the 2020 Trump campaign called the One Voice Prayer Movement.<sup>23<\/sup> She invited Dutch Sheets, Cindy Jacobs, and other NAR leaders to the White House to help her plan the campaign.<sup>24<\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n<p>When Joe Biden was declared the winner of the 2020 race and Trump refused to concede, the NAR leaders ramped up one of the fastest and most far-reaching spiritual warfare crusades in American history. They forcefully told their followers that Trump was to have a prophesied second term as president and that a conspiracy of witchcraft and demonic principalities was stealing the election from God\u2019s anointed.<sup>25<\/sup> Sheets told his followers, \u201cIt is God\u2019s will for Trump to win this, not Biden. . . . We have no choice but to continue to fight.\u201d<sup>26<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>In one of the wildest stories of the lead-up to January 6, Dutch Sheets, at the instigation of unnamed Trump Administration officials, took a team of 20 NAR apostles and prophets around to each of the states where the election results were being contested, and they held high-\u00adoctane prayer and prophecy meetings steeped in violent rhetoric.<sup>27<\/sup> These prophecy services were livestreamed to hundreds of thousands of NAR followers and prayer warriors.<sup>28<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>On December 29, 2020, this same team of apostles and prophets that Sheets was taking around the contested states had a two-hour meeting at the White House with unnamed Trump Administration officials.<sup>29<\/sup> Though the content of and participants in this meeting have yet to fully come to light, members of the group walked out of the meeting saying such things as, \u201cStrategy was given to us from people in the know around there\u201d<sup>30<\/sup> and \u201cGet ready to gallop and get your sword bloody in the spirit of God.\u201d<sup>31<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Eight days later, on January 6, Che\u0301 Ahn, Lance Wallnau, and Cindy Jacobs were all in Washington, D.C., during the Capitol riot. Cindy Jacobs got access to the White House the afternoon of January 5, and she and a team of spiritual warriors walked around the building doing spiritual warfare on Trump\u2019s behalf.<sup>32<\/sup> At the same time that afternoon, Che\u0301 Ahn was speaking at the largest Trump rally in D.C. that day. He declared with all his reputed apostolic authority: \u201cWe are going to rule and reign through Donald Trump and under the lordship of Jesus Christ.\u201d<sup>33<\/sup> There was real expectation in these charismatic prophecy-believing circles that God was going to miraculously reinstate Trump. This was the spirituality behind January 6.<\/p>\n<p><span class=&quot;s1&quot;>Dozens of Appeal to Heaven flags punctuated the crowds around the Capitol.<sup>34<\/sup> During the riot itself, Cindy Jacobs and a team of NAR apostles and prophets had a stage set up just yards from the Capitol building, and they were using all their spiritual warfare tactics to battle the demonic \u201cprincipalities and powers\u201d they believed were hijacking the election from Trump.<sup>35<\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Today, despite their intimate involvement in the organizing for and execution of January 6, none of these NAR leaders have faced prosecution for their involvement. In fact, these leaders, their ideas, and their spiritual warfare practices are more popular today than they were on January 6, and their rhetoric is still filled with that potent mix of rage and optimism: everything is on the line with this next election; it\u2019s heaven or hell, and God is on our side in this holy war.<sup>36<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Should Trump win in November, the NAR core leaders are positioned to be in the inner circles of administration advisors on many policy issues, working toward their vision of a hegemonically Christian America. Should Trump lose, they are primed to wreak havoc and let slip the dogs of spiritual war.<\/p>\n<p>* &nbsp;Matthew D. Taylor&#039;s newly published book, <a href=&quot;https:\/\/icjs.org\/the-violent-take-it-by-force\/&quot;><i>The Violent Take It by Force,<\/i><\/a> provides an in-depth account of the history and growing influence of the New Apostolic Reformation within evangelical Christianity and American politics.<\/p>\n<p>1 \u201cChristianity in its Global Context, 1970\u20132020: Society, Religion, and Mission,\u201d The Center for the Study of Global Christianity, Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary, June 2013.<\/p>\n<p>2 Kyle Mantyla, \u201cJacobs: God Is Getting Ready to Expose Corruption in the State of Maryland,\u201d Rightwingwatch.org, May 21, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>3 \u201cC. Peter Wagner Lectures on the New Apostolic Reformation,\u201d YouTube video, Aug.12, 2011, https:\/\/bit.ly\/3LjAlzA.<\/p>\n<p>4 \u201cApostle Peter Wagner Has Passed Into Glory,\u201d Lamplighter Ministries website, Oct. 22, 2016, https:\/\/bit.ly\/3LkxUfT.<\/p>\n<p>5 Harvest Ministries International website, \u201cAbout Us,\u201d www.harvestim.org\/who-we-are.<\/p>\n<p>6 \u201cWagner and the Network,\u201d BTELife Musings, Sept. 14, 2008, https:\/\/bit.ly\/4bEUieR.<\/p>\n<p>7 C. Peter Wagner, <i>Changing Church: How God Is Leading His Church Into the Future <\/i>(Grand Rapids: Baker, 2004).<\/p>\n<p>8 \u201cThe 7 Mountains Mandate\u2014Dr. Lance Wallnau,\u201d YouTube video, Mar. 29, 2013, https:\/\/bit.ly\/3XXVDdA.<\/p>\n<p>9 C. Peter Wagner, \u201cICA Presiding Apostle\u2019s Annual Report 2007,\u201d Dec. 7, 2007, box 21, folder 2, C. Peter Wagner Collection, Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, CA.<\/p>\n<p>10 Bruce Wilson, \u201cPalin in My Prayer Group, Says Witchcraft-Fighting \u2018Spiritual Warfare\u2019 Leader,\u201d <i>Huffington Post<\/i>, Nov. 16, 2009.<\/p>\n<p>11 \u201cElection, 2008,\u201d JoySprings.org, Sept. 7, 2008, https:\/\/bit.ly\/3zEjKnk.<\/p>\n<p>12 \u201cDutch Sheets\u2019 Response to the 2008 Election,\u201d Nov. 8, 2008, https:\/\/bit.ly\/3xMO7aL.<\/p>\n<p>13 \u201cDutch Sheets: \u2018The President Is a Muslim,\u2019\u201d YouTube video, Oct. 31, 2011, https:\/\/bit.ly\/4eZYZTw.<\/p>\n<p>14 \u201cDutch Sheets\u2019 Response to the 2008 Election.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>15 Dutch Sheets, \u201cDutch Sheets Tells Story Behind the Appeal to Heaven Flag,\u201d CharismaNews.com, Jan. 28, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>16 \u201c<span class=&quot;s6&quot;>\u2005<\/span>\u2018It Ain\u2019t Over!\u2019 Christians Appeal to Heaven,\u201d CBN News, Nov. 13, 2015, https:\/\/bit.ly\/460NxD1.<\/p>\n<p>17 John Fea, \u201cTed Cruz\u2019s Campaign Is Fueled by a Dominionist Vision for America,\u201d <i>The Washington Post,<\/i> Feb. 4, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>18 Paul White-Cain, <i>Something Greater: Finding Triumph Over Trials<\/i> (New York: FaithWords, 2019); Jeremy Diamond and Kirsten Appleton, \u201cPaula White: Trump\u2019s Televangelist in the White House,\u201d CNN.org, Nov. 8, 2019; \u201c\u2005\u2018Season of Apostolic Reformation,\u2019 part 1- Pastor Paula White,\u201d YouTube video, Jan. 21, 2012, https:\/\/bit.ly\/4eY5cit.<\/p>\n<p>19 Ben Schreckinger, \u201cDonald Trump\u2019s Saving Grace: Televangelists,\u201d Politico.com, Sept. 30, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>20 Lance Wallnau, \u201cWhy I Believe Trump Is the Prophesied President,\u201d CharismaNews.com, Oct. 5, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>21 Facebook post on the page of C. Peter Wagner (www.facebook.com\/cpeter.wagner), Feb. 24, 2016; C. Peter Wagner, \u201cI Like Donald Trump,\u201d CharismaNews.com, June 10, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>22 See POTUS Shield website www.potusshield.com; see archived As One Movement website https:\/\/bit.ly\/4cBZqlh.<\/p>\n<p>23 Peter Montgomery, \u201cPaula White\u2019s One Voice Prayer Movement: A Thinly Disguised Political Operation for Trump,\u201d RightWingWatch.org, May 15, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>24 James Goll, \u201cCindy Jacobs, Paula White Cain, Dutch Sheets Launching Governmental Prayer Initiative,\u201d CharismaNews.com, Nov. 4, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>25 Dutch Sheets, \u201cThe Victory Channel Is Live,\u201d Facebook video, https:\/\/bit.ly\/3zDF6RU.<\/p>\n<p>26 YouTube video: \u201cWhy We Won\u2019t Give Up. Conversations With Dutch S1EP27,\u201d https:\/\/bit.ly\/4616vcw.<\/p>\n<p>27 Dutch Sheets Ministries fundraising email dated Dec. 20, 2020, https:\/\/bit.ly\/462Bipx.<\/p>\n<p>28 \u201cDutch Sheets. Pray for the Nation From Pennsylvania,\u201d YouTube video, Dec. 1, 2020, https:\/\/bit.ly\/3WfNobk.<\/p>\n<p>29 Matthew D. Taylor and Bradley Onishi, \u201cEvidence Strongly Suggests Trump Was Collaborating With Christian Nationalist Leaders Before January 6,\u201d ReligionDispatches.org, Jan. 6, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>30 \u201cAir Raid Sirens. Tim Sheets,\u201d YouTube video, Jan. 3, 2021, https:\/\/bit.ly\/4bEeOft.<\/p>\n<p>31 \u201cFreedom House: Recorded Live Remanent Ministries,\u201d Facebook video, Dec. 31, 2020, https:\/\/bit.ly\/3LkrFJ5.<\/p>\n<p>32 Taylor and Onishi.<\/p>\n<p>33 \u201cPastor Che\u0301 Ahn in Freedom Plaza at a Prayer Rally for President Trump,\u201d UgeTube video, Jan. 6, 2021, https:\/\/bit.ly\/3VXSebT.<\/p>\n<p>34 Ishaan Jhaveri, \u201cThe Pine Tree Flag: How One Symbol at the Capitol Riot Connects Far-Right Extremism to Christianity,\u201d TowCenter.Medium.com, Feb. 24, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>35 \u201cWomen for a Great America Was Live,\u201d Facebook video, Jan. 6, 2021, https:\/\/bit.ly\/4cBlBrB.<\/p>\n<p>36 Matthew D. Taylor and Paul A. Djupe, \u201cHow Trumpism Has Pushed a Fringe Charismatic Theology Into the Mainstream,\u201d <i>Religion News Service<\/i>, May 6, 2024; Matthew D. Taylor, \u201cMike Johnson Is Mainstreaming the Spirituality That Gave Us the Capitol Riot,\u201d TheBulwark.com, Feb. 6, 2024; Peter Montgomery, \u201cLance Wallnau Says His 2024 Battleground State Tour Is Part of God\u2019s End-Times Plan,\u201d RightWingWatch.org, June 18, 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What helped fuel the toxic blend of religious and political fervor displayed by some on January 6, 2021? For anyone seeking answers, The New Apostolic Reformation may be the most important movement you\u2019ve never heard of. 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