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The Spirit of January 6th: The Theology of This Seldom Discussed Movement Animates the Growing Threat to U.S. Democracy

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…ian theology with charismatic zeal into a force that cannot be stopped!” A number of scholars and journalists across a wide range of interests and concerns have written about the significance of the Latter Rain.** This is notable in light of the dearth of contemporary reporting on the Dominionism of NAR, a dearth that effectively erases the past. Of course, all of this is not entirely new. Indeed, the idea of dominion has roots in the 19th and ear…

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It’s Not the Name It’s the Theocratic Vision — THE NEW APOSTOLIC REFORMATION’S PR PROBLEM

By Frederick Clarkson

…ng several writing at RD. We needn’t rehash all that except to note that a number of the Summit’s participants suggested that the name of their movement poses a public relations problem. While the term New Apostolic Reformation* has stood the test of time for more than a quarter of a century, some don’t like it, mostly because others in the movement have been harshly criticized. Several speakers argued that NAR should not be used because, even amo…

Virginians may Vote in Elections, But in Counties with Militias Democracy Hangs in the Balance

By Carolyn Gallaher and Priya Dixit

…April 27, 2023. [5] Interview with Donna St. Clair, September 8, 2023. [6] Charles Gati, “Backsliding in Central and Eastern Europe,” Connections 6(3) (2007): 107-20. [7] Rupert Emerson, “The Erosion of Democracy,” The Journal of Asian Studies 20(1) (1960): 1-8. [8] Steven Fish, “The Dynamics of Democratic Erosion,” in Postcommunism and the Theory of Democracy, eds. Richard D. Anderson, M. Steven Fish, Stephen E. Hanson and Philip G. Roeder (Princ…

Alarming New Report Shows Attacks on Public Education Are Coordinated by Right-Wing Think Tanks

By Hialy Gutierrez

…here, right? They’re just there in the hands of the Robert Mercers and the Charles Kochs of the world. But it doesn’t have to be in their hands. It can be in the school that a kid goes to, the public transportation infrastructure that we use every day. It could be in the solarization project that’s providing solar power to the whole country, the whole world. These are policy choices. It’s key to articulate that the reason why so much energy was pu…

Rising Christian Right Movement, New Apostolic Reformation, Emerged as a Mid-20th Century Splinter of White Supremacy

By Keri Ladner

…theology. Going back even further, the father of American Pentecostalism, Charles Fox Parham, was a British Israelist. It’s important to note that Pentecostal churches today generally reject British Israelism, and most have never even heard of the doctrine, but its teachings became baked into the more rogue elements of Pentecostalism, especially the Latter Rain Revival (which many Pentecostal denominations formally denounced, even while churchgoe…

Persecution, Betrayal, and the Zero Sum Fight for Global Domination — Day 1 of NatCon 2024

By Annika Brockschmidt and Ben Lorber

…t illegal.) After reminiscing about her prime seating position during King Charles’ coronation (which she referred to as “the largest policing mission in our history”) Braverman expressed her worry that “counter-protesters” would try to attack the King’s carriage (they didn’t). Then, echoing the theme of betrayal from within, Braverman blamed the Tories’ electoral defeat on “liberal conservatives who trash the Tory party,” and claimed, against all…

White Nationalist Mottos, the Fate of Jews in the New Christian State, and ‘Appeal to Heaven’ Humor — Day 2 of NatCon 2024

By Annika Brockschmidt and Ben Lorber

…,” Orr claims that the European Union has left behind what he refers to as Charles de Gaulle’s “family of fatherlands” (the correct quote would’ve been “Europe of fatherlands”) in favor of a system that, he claims, disrespects national sovereignty. He defended a law passed by Hungary’s parliament which, in Orr’s view, “banned gender ideology” in schools (the law, in fact, banned LGBTQ content in schools). Finally he recalled the words of Mark Rutt…

Don’t Laugh at Rick Scott’s ‘Plan to Rescue America’ or Be Fooled by Reports of a ‘Backlash’ — His Only Mistake Was Revealing the Truth of Today’s GOP

By Annika Brockschmidt

…t ad for Peter Thiel-backed far-right candidate for US Senate in Arizona, Blake Masters. Both claim that there’s a narrow and fixed definition of who is and is not American—first and foremost, white, Christian people who look, sound, dress, worship, believe, love, and act like they do—and both draw clear lines to show who is in and who is not a part of it. The future for all non-cis gendered people looks dire should Scott’s plan be enacted; in typ…

Why We Should Ban Oppressive Speech Acts

By Natasha Lennard

…onsiderations to the speech acts of Donald Trump’s Twitter incitements, to Charles Murray’s claims that white men are intellectually superior, or to Senator Tom Cotton urging the military be deployed against Black American protesters—these all enact, even if not explicitly, the permissibility of oppression in the environment in which they’re spoken. The perlocutionary effect of Trump’s racist speech act—that is, the attendant huge spike in white s…

For Unto (Some of) Us a Child is Born: Handel’s Messiah and the Voice of Empire Rising

By Peter Laarman

…andel’s masterwork while pretty much ignoring the peculiar theology of the Charles Jennens libretto for Messiah—60 percent of which was stitched together from bits of the Hebrew Bible as viewed through the lens of Christian triumphalism. But attention should be paid to the theology, especially to the question of who exactly is the “us” in in Part 1, No. 12: “For unto us a child is born.” In historical context the answer is clear: the “us” in this…