Across America, a new form of Christianity is rising to power. Followers of the New Apostolic Reformation believe that “God speaks through modern-day apostles and prophets. That demonic forces can control not only individuals, but entire territories and institutions. That the Church is not so much a place as an active ‘army of God,’ one with a holy mission to claim the Earth for the Kingdom as humanity barrels ever deeper into the End Times,” writes Stephanie McCrummen in her new article for The Atlantic.
The NAR is not a fringe movement in American Christianity. Rather, it represents a major shift within the faith. McCrummen explains how its beliefs took hold, and how its warlike vision propelled a wave of support for Donald Trump in the 2024 election—one that the political left was mistaken to ignore. “It is mystical, emotional, and, in its way, wildly utopian,” McCrummen writes of the NAR. “It is transnational, multiracial, and unapologetically political.” And it seeks to end the secular governance of the United States as we know it.
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