Lance Wallnau has been on a roll of late. Some of you know Wallnau. He’s the guy who: He now wants to win MAGA “thought leaders” to Pentecostalism: Wallnau recently spoke at the “Fire and Glory Live” event. Here is...
“I’m probably going to lose my job as a pastor after this.” Here is a guy named Tyler Ethridge at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. For those who cannot access the video, here is the transcript: I don’t...
Last week I wrote a post on the Independence Network Charismatic movement (INC). The piece relied heavily on what I wrote in Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump which, in turn, relied heavily on the work of Richard […]
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...
I am glad to see that the religion desk at The Washington Post is covering this. Here is Michelle Boorstein’s piece: The high-octane, emotional fight for Trump makes sense for these believers, who take the stories of Christian scripture literallyand...
The conservative pundits are outraged at what happened at Saturday’s Jericho March! David French is worried that too many evangelicals have fallen for conspiracy theories. Rod Dreher says we would be wrong to “blow off” the influence of these evangelicals...
In a recent piece at The Atlantic, anthropologist T.M. Luhrmann argues that Amy Coney Barrett’s charismatic faith might lead here to be “less predictable than many presume.” Here is a taste: In my research on charismatic evangelical Christianity, I have...
Here is Emma Brown, Jon Swaine, and Michelle Boorstein: While Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett has faced questions about how her Catholic faith might influence her jurisprudence, she has not spoken publicly about her involvement in People of Praise,...
In our continuing efforts to make sense of Amy Coney Barrett’s religious community, here is my friend Matthew Schmalz, professor of religious studies at the College of the Holy Cross, on the charismatic Catholicism that informs People of Praise. Catholic...
Sun, Aug 7, 1977 – 30 · The South Bend Tribune (South Bend, Indiana) · Newspapers.com Later today Trump is expected to announce his nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to replace the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court....
It looks like Trump will nominate Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court later today. Over the next several weeks, Senators and pundits will want to know more about People of Praise, a Catholic charismatic group in which the Barrett...
Mike Evans is one of the lesser known court evangelicals. One of America’s leading Christian Zionists, Evans recently founded the Friends of Zion Heritage Center and the Friends of Zion Museum in Jerusalem to celebrate the “everlasting bond between the Jewish and Christian peoples.”...
Most Americans have never heard of Steven Strang. I’ve written about him here and in Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump. Strang is the editor of Charisma Magazine, a magazine and website that represents Pentecostal and charismatic Christians in the United...
Here is a taste of my piece today at Religion News Service: For centuries, Catholics have used rosary beads to aid them in the practice of prayer. Some American Protestants view their Bibles as a kind of talisman or amulet...
In Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump, I wrote a several pages on the so-called INC (Independent Network Charismatics) prophets. Lance Wallnau is one of these “prophets.” Here is what I wrote about him: Early in the 2016 campaign,...
In 2005, Time named Stephen Strang one of the “25 Most Influential Evangelicals in America.” He is the founding editor of Charisma Magazine, a Christian magazine that represents Pentecostals and charismatics in the United States. Strang is also one of Donald Trump’s leading...
Some of you are familiar with Steven Strang’s book God and Donald Trump. (See this Religion News Service piece). Strang is editor of Charisma, a magazine that covers the Independent Network Charismatic movement (INC) and other Pentecostal and Charismatic movements (and claims...
I write a bit about Lance Wallnau in my forthcoming book Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump. He is the guy who said God told him that Donald Trump is a new King Cyrus. He represents the INC wing...
As part of my research for Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump, I read a lot about the so-called Independent Network Charismatic (INC) movement. I have written about it here and here and here. Many of the so-called INC “prophets”...
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...
