This article originally appeared on Talk2Action. In order to avoid a repeat of 2008, Religious Right leaders made an unprecedented show of unity behind Rick Perry’s “non-partisan” prayer rally in Houston on August 6. One week later, while other candidates were involved in the Ames Straw Poll in Iowa, Perry announced his candidacy from...
Read more →This post originally appeared on Talk To Action, on November 8, 2011. Following are three list of links: 1) audio and video documenting the preparations for the upcoming TheCall Detroit on 11/11/11, 2) links to video of TheCall events in past years in locations around the U.S. and the world, and 3) links to...
Read more →This post originally appeared at Talk2Action on November 5, 2011. TheCall Detroit participants are denying that the event is anti-Muslim or directed against any group. The truth is organizers have been demonizing Muslims, freemasons, homosexuals, Mormons, and others for well over a year in preparatory events and conference calls. Some quotes are included in...
Read more →This post first appeared on Talk to Action on November 4, 2011. by Rachel Tabachnick “We need the harvest of the Muslim people. We can’t just sit by and let them continue the on the way they are, worshipping their false god.” – April 11, 2011 conference call in preparation for TheCall Detroit For...
Read more →This article first appeared on Talk2Action. Although the New Apostolic Reformation has co-opted language of the social gospel, they promote a Tea Party-style anti-statism. Call it prosperity doctrine with a twist. Leading apostles oppose state involvement in social services, but teach that the movement is going to end poverty, “transform” communities, and take dominion...
Read more →C. Peter Wagner was quite forthcoming on many issues in his October 3, 2011 Fresh Air interview with Terry Gross. He talked openly about the New Apostolic Reformation’s agenda for the movement’s apostles to have authority over churches; suggested that Sarah Palin should have been anointed by leadership in private, so that it would...
Read more →This article first appeared on Talk2Action. Peter Wagner has responded to the national press coverage of the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) that has introduced many Americans to the NAR for the first time. This includes a page on the International Coalition of Apostles’ website, an article in Charisma Magazine, and an audio interview with...
Read more →This post originally appeared at Al Jazeera English. It’s reposted by permission of the author, Paul Rosenberg. The US media has been downplaying a radical Christian theology that is increasingly influential in the Republican Party. At least three Republican candidates – Ron Paul, Michele Bachmann, and Rick Perry – have ties to Dominionism ...
Read more →By Bruce Wilson. This story originally appeared at Talk2Action.org then at Alternet, and is re-posted with permission from both. “If a man sleeps with a man, if a woman sleeps with a woman, the Bible, this Bible, says such people should be killed.” — Apostle Julius Oyet, head pastor over Ugandan Health Minister Christine...
Read more →This post originally appeared on Talk2Action.org. Part Two of Dismissing Dominionism Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, head of the National Hispanic Chrisitian Leadership Conference and a columnist for the Washington Postfrom 2007 -2009, is also vice president of the Oak Initiative, a religio-political entity initiated at Rick Joyner’s MorningStar Ministries in 2009. The Oak Initiative is...
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