I'm very honored to have my research featured on 2 segments of this week's @onthemedia episode.

I realize that to the uninitiated (& even to some Christians) the forms of Christian supremacy I describe in this interview sound bizarre.

Consider these my interview footnotes. 1/

https://twitter.com/onthemedia/status/1781487991489262062

1st, if you want to understand the Christian nationalism & Christian theology that spurred much of the spirituality on display at the Capitol Riot, check out this award-winning, 25-minute documentary by @ICJSBaltimore titled "Spiritual Warriors." 2/

"We are going to put on the armor of God. And maybe strap on a Glock on the side of us just in case.”

That is AZ Senate candidate (2x election denier) Kari Lake speaking at a rally on Sunday.

Alarm bells should be klaxoning in your head right now. 1/

nbcnews.com/politics/2024-… 1st, I'm sure some of Lake's supporters will claim this was a joke. But if you read the context, she's also talking about sacrifice, "lawfare" (a new favorite term on the right), & the intensity of the 2024 election.

She may have said it with a chuckle, but it's no joke. 2/

Today's Sean Feucht podcast episode offers a textbook example of the charismaticization of the far-right & the radicalization of young Christians.



That might sound like an odd combo, but it's a very real & unstable paradox in our politics. Read on... 1/podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hop… As I gestured to in Charismatic Revival Fury (), a major & underreported trend in right-wing politics is the spread of charismatic Christian spirituality.

"Charismatic" here means focused on restoring supernatural & ecstatic aspects of Christianity. 2/ icjs.org/charismatic-re…

This is such a great question, & one I've pondered much:

Is the New Apostolic Reformation still Protestant?

As Lindsay raises, they say they've undergone a new reformation & step past strict sola scriptura by adding in new prophecy.

I have many semi-organized thoughts... 1/

https://twitter.com/beyerstein/status/1776993329848148404

First, let me be clear that no NAR leader I've spoken to & no NAR-authored book I've read says they don't believe in the absolute primacy of the Bible. The NAR is contiguous enough with broader evangelicalism to know that crossing that line would be a big no-no. 2/

Among my most painful cuts in writing Charismatic Revival Fury was I didn't get to lay out Lance Wallnau's own disavowal of the origins of his Seven Mountains prophecy.

I'm so glad @wthrockmorton has told that story in his latest Telling Jefferson Lies:

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the… In truth, my Charismatic Revival Fury episode on Wallnau (Ep. 3) was already verging on 2 hours - yikes! - & I couldn't justify the 10-15 minutes it'd take to contextualize & explain how Wallnau admitted the Seven Mountains image was based on a fake (or imagined?) prophecy.

Please, please, please pay attn to what is happening here:

Lance Wallnau is one of the most effective Christian Trump propagandists. He was central to mobilizing Christians for #January6th through this exact style of rhetoric -- literally demonizing their political enemies. 1/

https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1770873525835829639

If you doubt it, watch this 25-minute documentary that demonstrates how Christian leaders (especially Wallnau) & their demonizing rhetoric fed directly into the Christianity on display on #January6th:

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Many New Apostolic Reformation leaders & other charismatic apostles & prophets posted photos from an invitation-only conference of apostles & prophets in Dallas last wk.

Here we can see the inklings of another January 6th...

Keep reading! 1/ Unlike other NAR conferences with thousands in attendance, this gathering (titled the National Apostles & Prophets Conference 2024) was specifically for the dozens of apostles & prophets themselves to collaborate.

(h/t to @KiraResistance who found photos from the event). 2/

An anonymous source told me about an invitation-only gathering of apostles & prophets (from the New Apostolic Reformation & other movements) last week.

My source--who is anti-Trump & devastated by the prophetic debacle in 2020--expressed real worry about what they witnessed. 1/ Unlike other NAR conferences with thousands in attendance, this gathering (titled the National Apostles & Prophets Conference 2024) was specifically for the dozens of apostles & prophets themselves to collaborate.

(h/t to @KiraResistance who dredged up photos from the event). 2/

There's a lot of talk of "Christian nationalism" today, & many Christians in the U.S. are pushing back, saying that CN is just a slur against conserv Christians.

Take a minute to watch this clip of OK State Sen Dusty Deevers preaching at a conf this month, then read below. 1/

https://twitter.com/hemantmehta/status/1767926702024380525

As a scholar of religion who's studied this for years, "Christian nationalism" is not a slur but a diagnostic, descriptive term for how people blend their Christian religious ID w/ their national/political ID.

This is not unique to Christianity, nor unique to America. 3/

Charismatic worship leader & far-right provocateur Sean Feucht had AZ senate candidate Kari Lake on his podcast today.



She said something that is very much worth noting... Recall that Kari Lake denied the results of her lost bid for AZ gov'r in 2022. 1/podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cou… W/ Feucht, Lake said : "We have to continue fighting. The devil is working. Evil is working. Those stolen elections [i.e., hers in 2022, Trump's in 2020] were meant to make us feel like we have been beat down and there's no hope... We cannot sit here feeling wounded." (22:30) 2/

I get pushback from Christians (esp. charismatic Xns) when I write/talk about the Seven Mountain Mandate (a.k.a., 7M) as an outlined program for Christian supremacy.

I've dug more deeply into the origins of 7M than just about anybody, & skeptics should read this article. 1/

https://twitter.com/baptist_news/status/1761633638028808202

As I laid out in Charismatic Revival Fury (ep. 3), the Seven Mountain Mandate is a prophetic meme created by Lance Wallnau in 2000. Then Wallnau & his mentor, C. Peter Wagner used the New Apostolic Reformation networks to spread this meme everywhere. 2/

straightwhiteamericanjesus.com/episodes/chari…

AL Chief Justice Tom Parker has stoked controversy, but missing from news coverage is the prophecy movement that's shaped Parker's worldview: the New Apostolic Reformation.

In this week's @onthemedia with @OTMBrooke, I describe the NAR's influence: 1/wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/e… For those looking for more context on Parker's ties to the NAR (because you can't footnote an interview), see my thread from 2/21:



Indeed, Tom Parker's NAR links go far beyond him simply sitting down for an interview with NAR prophet Johnny Enlow. 2/

https://twitter.com/TaylorMatthewD/status/1760415496569008460

The sharp-eyed folks at @mmfa noticed that Alabama Supr. Court Chief Justice Tom Parker gave an intrvw to NAR prophet Johnny Enlow, published the same day as the court's recent decision that embryos count as ppl. Parker references the "Seven Mountains." This is very important. 1/

https://twitter.com/mmfa/status/1760354985630482926

As I showed in Charismatic Revival Fury, ep. 3, the Seven Mountain Mandate is a charismatic (e.g., rooted in modern prophecy & miracles) program intent upon achieving Christian supremacy. It originated in 2000 with NAR prophet/apostle Lance Wallnau. 2/

straightwhiteamericanjesus.com/episodes/chari…

I commend to you a great dialogue around the meaning of Christian nationalism led by @LoganMDavis in the pages of @COTimesRecorder. It starts w/ Davis' 1/31 column:



There, using solid facts & accurate analysis, he showed the menace of Xn nationalism. 1/ coloradotimesrecorder.com/2024/01/davis-…
In the column, he named some local Colorado organizationss, especially Truth & Liberty Coalition & Andrew Wommack ministries (including Charis Bible College), as Christian nationalist orgs. As well he should!

If any orgs have earned the CN title, it's these guys. 2/

To anyone who knows the actual history of the movement, it's hilarious to see @lancewallnau putting scare quotes around "New Apostolic Reformation" & feigning ignorance about what that phrase means. It's like if Steve Bannon pretended he didn't know what "MAGA" stood for. 1/

https://twitter.com/lancewallnau/status/1755203354618151341

The New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) was a phrase coined in 1996 as an alt. title to a theory of C. Peter Wagner's - what he had previously called the "postdenominational church."

Wagner retired from his teaching job in 1999 to build an infrastructure for the NAR movement. 2/

I get this question a lot about the Christian right: Is their aim roughly the equivalent of imposing Sharia law?

Since my other area of expertise is American Islam (my 1st book is on American Salafism - ), I'd like to clarify some points. 1/ cambridge.org/core/books/scr…

https://twitter.com/StephenJamesUS/status/1753292130028765400

First, I worry about the soft Islamophobia embedded in this comparison, which seems to take for granted that Muslims all want to impose Sharia on their neighbors.

The Sharia (Arabic: path or way) is meant to describe the eternal will & intention of God for humanity. 2/

Yesterday was the 2nd annual National Gathering for Prayer & Repentance, led by Spkr Mike Johnson.

A review of the congressional & Christian leaders who joined him should set alarm bells clanging all over the country about the perilous influence of Christian nationalism. 1/ To review: this event appeared out of nowhere last year on the same day as the Nat'l Prayer Breakfast but held at the Museum of the Bible. @ the helm were 2 men: Tony Perkins, Family Research Council (old school relig. right) & NAR apostle Jim Garlow (new school relig. right). 2/

There are many people who are much more read into (& experientially knowledgeable) about the ongoing #IHOPKC / Mike Bickle debacle than I am. But I do work on this sector of American Christianity (nondenominational + charismatic), so I have a couple observations to share. 1/ As I noted in my Substack post when the news of sexual abuse accusations against Mike Bickle broke in October, scandals & abuses are endemic in these Independent Charismatic circles, because authority is vested in a small circle of elite leaders. 2/

matthewdtaylor.substack.com/p/important-co…

The race for the 2024 Trump Prophecies has begun, & that should have us all very worried. This particular prophecy was aired yesterday from Andrew Whalen:



It's worth unpacking in some detail, b/c these prophecies are the seeds of the next #January6th. 1/elijahlist.com/words/display_… First, a quick word about the platform &. the prophet. Whalen publicized this prophecy, which he claims he received in a dream on 1/5, on ElijahList & its related ElijahStreams podcast (). This is the prophecy platform of Steve Shultz, the podcast host. 2/elijahstreams.com/videos/andrew-…

It was great talking to @SophiaCai99 for this story out today in @axios.



This is a point that I touched on in my series Charismatic Revival Fury, but I get into much more in my book: Power has shifted in the religious right in the past decade. 1/axios.com/2024/01/12/how… The religious right establishment was built on denominational evangelicalism (w/ some conservative Catholics, mainliners, & LDS folks thrown in). But the 2016 Trump campaign & his admin have elevated a cast of nondenominational, charismatic celebrities to be the new captains. 2/

Paula White-Cain has been (& evidently still is) Donald Trump's closest spiritual adviser, but her own inspirations & influences have received shockingly little media attention - specifically, White-Cain's attachment to Ghanaian charismatic apostle Nicholas Duncan-Williams. 1/ White-Cain came up in Black Pentecostal-charismatic & prosperity-gospel circles. Her first televangelism talk show was on BET, & she was mentored by T.D. Jakes (pictured right). Her career hit a rocky patch around 2008 amid her divorce from her husband & co-pastor Randy White. 2/