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Nov 5, 2024 | religiondispatches.org | Frederick Clarkson |Massachusetts. He

Over the past 24 hours you’ve likely heard stories about election workers facing pressure to support conspiracy theories, receiving bomb threats, or being intimidated by self-appointed monitors. These things have happened as political and religious leaders have long predicted violence this election season. This includes threats of violence from leaders of the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) which have loomed over the 2024 election since the last presidential election.

Oct 17, 2024 | religiondispatches.org | Frederick Clarkson |Massachusetts. He

On October 12th one of the most remarkable political statements of any religious leader in this or any election season was broadcast live from an all-day rally of tens of thousands of people on the Washington Mall. The event, called A Million Women, was staged by some of the leading apostles and prophets in the New Apostolic Reformation.

May 23, 2024 | religiondispatches.org | Frederick Clarkson |André Gagné |Massachusetts. He

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 context of tectonic changes in global Christianity. It’s seldom reported that Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity is the second largest sector of global and American Christianity, after Roman Catholicism. It’s also the only major growth sector.

May 10, 2024 | religiondispatches.org | Frederick Clarkson |Massachusetts. He

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. The campaign has two main elements.

Feb 27, 2024 | religiondispatches.org | Frederick Clarkson |Massachusetts. He

It is more than paradoxical that an ostensibly Christian university leader would say, “We are here to put a knife to the throat of religion.” But that’s what Apostle Greg Hood, the founder of Kingdom University in Franklin, Tennessee believes so heartily he emblazoned it on a KU t-shirt. This is not a hoax. In fact, the bloody tee epitomizes the paradoxes of the New Apostolic Reformation—a movement that says it means to bust out of the “demonic prison” of  religion, knives out.