Ep 45: Understanding the NAR w/ Dr. Matthew D. Taylor

Wes & Luke sit down with Dr. Matthew D. Taylor to discuss a better understanding of the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) and Christian Nationalism. Plus some discussion on Alan Scott and Dwelling Place Anaheim (formerly known as the Anaheim Vineyard).
❇️ About Dr. Matthew D. Taylor ❇️
Matthew D. Taylor is a religious studies scholar and expert in American Christianity, American Islam, Christian extremism, and religion and politics. His new book, "The Violent Take It by Force: The Christian Movement that is Threatening Our Democracy" (amzn.to/4cPGqPf), tracks how a network of Christian leaders called the New Apostolic Reformation was a major instigating force for the January 6th Insurrection and is currently reshaping the culture of the religious right in the U.S. He is also the creator, writer, and narrator of the Charismatic Revival Fury audio-documentary series and the author of Scripture People: Salafi Muslims in Evangelical Christians' America. Taylor holds a PhD in religious studies and Muslim-Christian relations from Georgetown University and an MA in theology from Fuller Theological Seminary. He is currently a senior scholar at the Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies in Towson. He also serves as an associate fellow at the Center for Peace Diplomacy in New Orleans, where he works on preventing religion-related violence surrounding U.S. elections.
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[@nbrooks1416]

Excellent Episode. Matthew is the best researcher on the NAR I have come across.

[@EnlightenedPraise]

My experience when I unknowingly got involved with NAR aligned churches and Bible studies was a very painful experience. There are some events that I felt led by God to go to which were very confusing in the moment. Then God got me out of it all in a rather abrupt manner. What I saw was the alignments between these big ministries. This interview explains some history that I wasn’t familiar with as well. And it gives validity to what I saw first hand. Someone else that these people love is A.W. Tozer but when I read his sermons and books I don’t gather that he would approve of their beliefs.

[@FoxRunImages]

What a contrast between Wagner and Thomas Oden, who wanted his tombstone to read “He contributed nothing new to theology.”

[@lesyoder]

Taylor has done a good job of researching! I wonder if he ever includes the revival leaders in Argentina in the 1990's -- Carlos Annacondia, Ed Silvoso, Claudio Friedson, Hector Gimenez, Edward Lorenzo -- It is my impression that these leaders promoted Wagner and his strategic-level spiritual warfare. I have read that Pentecostals/Evangelicals in Argentina prior to the Falkland War were about 1/2 of 1 percent of the population -- but after the revival in the 90's they increased to about 5% of the population

[@FoxRunImages]

I read about the Pentecostal/Charismatic involvement in Brasil’s politics in Paul Palma’s book on grassroots Pentecostalism there. He pretty much predicted the uprising there.

[@FoxRunImages]

Todd Bentley (Lakeland Outpouring) claimed that the same angel that accompanied William Branham in his meetings was with Bentley, NAR leaders like Ahn, Wagner, and Johnson went to Lakeland for Bentley's "apostolic alignment" just before the whole thing fell apart when Bentley's infidelity came to light.

[@FoxRunImages]

Oh wow, I typed that before Matt got to Lakeland. I was watching that whole thing in real-time in the Christian media. The first article in Charisma mag about it tripped my Holy Spirit spidey sense. It was an AG church that hosted that fiasco, sadly,.

[@ClareBoyd-f8c]

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