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QAnon isn’t a Cult — a Problematic Term — But Michael Protzman’s Q-Adjacent ‘Negative48’ Certainly Is

By Thomas Lecaque

…he Trump rally in Arizona, and ramping up as they head to Trump’s rally in Houston, that feels very Second Coming-esque, between Tenner’s “Jesus is coming” and his new video that “There will be a king in attendance.” Protzman’s group heading to these rallies has revitalized his clique, bringing people back to Texas from out of state to join him. And all the while, the rhetoric is maintained—secret codes in the numbers, the dead are really alive, a…

Perry’s God-Talk at Liberty University

By Sarah Posner

…the hallmarks of the neo-Pentecostalism that pervaded his prayer event in Houston, The Response, last month. No revelations straight from God. No signs and wonders. Just an ordinary, lost and broken guy with a Road to Damascus moment stripped dry of spirit-filled moments of lightening and tongue-talking. Clinical, if you will. And notably free of policy. Purely confessional. But still, aw, shucks, how can he be expected to know much vocabulary, e…

Inevitable Megachurch Abuse of PPP Funds is Coming to Light — Private Jet Included

By Andrew L. Seidel

…ow sooner if journalists start digging. Chris Mathews, a reporter from the Houston Business Journal, broke the Osteen story. Lisa Guerrero of Inside Edition has been digging too, and she discovered a private jet likely financed with PPP money. Marcus Lamb runs Daystar Television, which may have as many as 2 billion viewers and is valued at a quarter of a billion dollars. Two weeks after it took $4 million in taxpayer PPP funds, it bought a private…

Pastors for Perry?

By Sarah Posner

…presidential bid by Texas Governor Rick Perry: The Rev. Laurence White of Houston, a Lutheran pastor, helps organize pastors nationwide for “restoration project” get-out-the-vote campaigns. In a perfect world, he said, evangelicals would be counting on Fort Worth-trained minister Mike Huckabee to help turn out conservatives for primaries and precinct conventions. Without Huckabee running, White said Perry can become the favorite “because we live…

The New Disciples: Report from South Carolina

By Sarah Posner

…rday, that conventional story was on view: voters for whom abortion is the number one motivating issue, trying to send that message to both candidates and observers. There, on the statehouse steps, another kind of conservative evangelicalism was on view: that of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar of 19 Kids and Counting fame, who have endorsed Santorum. That these icons of the contraception-eschewing wing of evangelicalism marched behind the Knights of C…

Eddie Long Takes Break from New Birth Pulpit

By Anthea Butler

…a “violent and vicious temper” exhibited towards his first wife, Dabara S. Houston. Meanwhile, Bishop Long was left to address the issue before his Sunday congregation at New Birth, and a gathering of protesters holding “Bishop Long must go” signs in front of his Atlanta megachurch. According to the blog PimpPreachers.com, a group of protesters were “Occupying New Birth” and demanding that Long leave the church he has pastored since 1997. At its…

#OccupyWallStreet and the Antichrist

By Sarah Posner

…. Last year he participated in a protest of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Houston because, in the words of organizer Lou Engle, it would “target minorities for abortion.” (Engle refers to legislation he disagrees with as “Antichrist legislation.”) While others, such as Obama adviser Joel Hunter, may be still advocates for “common ground,” their efforts have been resoundingly overshadowed by increasingly vocal and successful anti-abortion activist…

Perry To Accuse Obama of Appeasement

By Sarah Posner

…d for Israel founder John Hagee. At Perry’s prayer rally, The Response, in Houston last month, Hagee spoke and brought a sizable contingent of congregants from his San Antonio church. Perry has prayed at Hagee’s church, and agreed with him that non-Christians are doomed to hell. The appeasement accusation is as old as Neville Chamberlain, and deployed with frequency by Christian Zionists to argue that Israel faces a threat as dire as Nazism. Perry…

Bachmann Staffer Likens
Rick Perry to King Saul and Bachmann to anointed
King David

By Warren Throckmorton

…have a tough choice between Perry, who recently hosted a prayer meeting in Houston where over 30,000 evangelicals attended, and Bachmann, who has made her faith a central part of her campaign. The distinction offered by Waldron is that Perry looks the part of a Old Testament leader but Bachmann has God’s approval, as did King David. In the Old Testament, Saul was the first King of Israel and but had a bad end because he fell out of God’s favor. To…

Atheist Rock Fest, Buddhist Geeks, Megachurch For Sale, Church Bans Fried Chicken

By Michael J. Altman

…in Dearborn, Michigan. Meanwhile, Whole Foods is defending itself after a Houston blogger posted an internal email that advised local stores not to promote their halal products during Ramadan. A collection of relics from Pope John Paul II, including a capsule of his blood, will tour Mexico this fall. Rev. Roy Bourgeois has been officially dismissed by his religious order, the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers, for his support of women’s ordination….