Good reporting here from Jennifer Cohn of the Bucks County (PA) Beacon on 7 Mountain Dominionism, the “Watchman’s Decree,” and Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano. Here is a taste: In Pennsylvania, N[ew] A[Apostolic] R[eformation]. apostle Jacobs’ prayer network is led...
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The 7 Mountain Dominionists converge on Duluth, Georgia
Watch: Read more here. The above video is from July 1, 2022. It takes place in a Duluth, Georgia arena. The event is sponsored by Gene Bailey’s Flashpoint Church television show. One of the men on the stage is Lance...
Sidney Powell goes on the show of a 7 Mountain Dominionist and says Democrats murdered people in Georgia to cover up stealing the 2020 election
Andrew Wommack is a Seven Mountain Dominionist. He believes that Christians must gain control of the seven spheres of cultural influence: Business, Government, Media, Arts and Entertainment, Education, Family, and Religion. When Christians control these spheres, Jesus Christ will return....
David Barton Doubles Down on 7 Mountain Dominionism
David Barton runs a very wealthy Ted Cruz super-PAC. I wrote about the connection between Barton and Cruz here and here. Barton compares God’s laws (613 in total, he says) for the Old Testament nation of Israel with the government...
David Barton, the Seven Mountains, and Ted Cruz
I guess I have known this all along, but this whole Ted Cruz-dominionist conversation has made it abundantly clear. Many conservative evangelical Christians believe that David Barton is a historian. As I have said many times at this blog and...
Ted Cruz: Dominionist
I have always shied away from interpretations of the Christian Right that place too heavy an emphasis on Christian Reconstructionism and dominion theology. I am not sure why that is the case, but I think it has something to do...
Was America Founded as a Christian Nation?
On the common agenda of Seven Mountain Dominionists and National Conservatives
Evangelical roundup for July 7, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? Will Wheaton College remove J. Oliver’s Buswell’s name from its library? An evangelical on why evangelicals need to care more about inequality. The Anxious Bench blog gets a new editor Tim Keller is a...
Evangelical roundup for December 13, 2021
What is happening in Evangelical land? More scandal at Liberty University. A sports ministry legend has died. Another QAnon conference at an evangelical megachurch: The next big religious liberty case before the Supreme Court. Evangelical views on Joe Biden: Evangelical...
Evangelical roundup for August 12, 2021
What is going on in Evangelicalland? Christian Reconstructionists are thriving in Moscow, Idaho under the leadership of Douglas Wilson. True: Slacktivist responds to Current managing editor Jay Green’s recent piece on “exvangelicals.” Bless your pastor: Do evangelicals still care about...
Who were the evangelical Christians who stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021?
I have already introduced readers to Tyler Ethridge, a Seven Mountain Dominionist trained at Charis Bible College’s David Barton School of Government. But Ethridge was not the only evangelical Christian at the U.S. Capitol on January 6. Here is Michelle...
Some Further Context for My Piece on Ted Cruz's Dominionism
Warren Throckmorton is more conversant in the language of Seven Mountain Dominionism than I am. He adds some thoughts to my piece distributed today through Religion News Service. (The piece is also running at The Washington Post). Read the rest...
“America’s only Christian conservative wireless provider”
Over at NBC News, Mike Hixenbaugh introduces us to Patriot Mobile, a 7 Mountain Dominionist business that is trying to take over Texas school boards. I was happy to help him with the piece. A taste: DALLAS — A little...
Doug Mastriano finds a place to show his campaign movie
After two sites in Lancaster County refused to premiere Pennsylvania GOP gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano’s movie “The Return of the American Patriot: The Rise of Pennsylvania,” a church in Lower Allen Township (Cumberland County), Christ Community Church, agreed to air...
Evangelical roundup for December 2, 2021
What is going on in Evangelical land? Christianity Today reports on what happened in the Supreme Court yesterday related to abortion. True: Also true: Franklin Graham comes out strong (as expected) on Dobbs v. Jackson. Amicus briefs on Dobbs v....
More on the evangelical Trumpers in Orlando this weekend: Ted Cruz confirms his Dominionism and Mike Pence gets heckled.
I am trying to stay up-to-speed on this evangelical Lost Cause conference known as The Road to Majority. Read our first post here. Here is Ted Cruz: Some responses: What Cruz is doing here is political fundamentalism It is one...
Charismatic prophets at war
In Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump, I wrote extensively about the so-called Independent Network Charismatics (INC). According to scholars Brad Christerson and Richard Flory, INC is the fastest-growing Christian movement in both the Western world and global...
Thursday night court evangelical roundup
What have Trump’s evangelicals been saying since our last update? They are still coming for Jesus: As I said in an earlier tweet…. the left is coming after Jesus and the apostles next. Not the statues but the historic faith of Christianity https://t.co/wO8INqFk0v —...
What is Christian Nationalism?
In the wake of the recent statement by Christians opposing Christian nationalism, several folks have suggested that Christian nationalism does not exist and the authors and endorsers of this statement are trying to knock down a straw man. Translation: We’re...
The Other Wing of the Court Evangelical Coalition
In a recent Washington Post piece, I connected the court evangelicals to the rise of the Christian Right in the 1980s. But there is another faction among the evangelical leaders who frequent the White House regularly. Some of the other faith leaders...