In this episode, Jeff and Kristin tackle two separate stories: the rise of a Charismatic worship musician and his path into right-wing politics… and the controversy around an award-winning Christian romance novel whose hunky hero “participates in” genocide.
News and Updates
Talking about Doug Wilson’s Neo-Confederate Christianity and the Ivermectin debacle on the I Don’t Speak German podcast
The Cult Behind Josh Duggar on Behind The Bastards
Christianity Today’s The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill podcast
“Giant media companies are complicit in presenting religious extremism as harmless,” by Kristin Rawls on Flux Community
Mike Warnke’s The Satan Seller, on the You’re Wrong About podcast
“Selling Satan: The Tragic History of Mike Warnke”, published in 1992 in Cornerstone Magazine
Sean Feucht, Neo-Charismatic worship musician and activist
Who Is Sean Feucht? by Shannon Leigh on Medium
“Hate watch groups voice alarm about Sean Feucht’s Portland security volunteers”, by Alejandra Molina on the Religion News Service, August 08 2021
“Sean Feucht Calls Black Lives Matter Movement a ‘Fraud,’ Seeks to Turn ‘Riots’ Into ‘Revival’” by Peter Montgomery on Right Wing Watch, June 18, 2020
The New Apostolic Reformation, on Wikipedia
PROPHETIC ALERT!!! by Lance Wallnau: Podcast host, Prophet of God, and Life Coach
Amanda Rogers explains the difference between Christian Identity and “vanilla” right wing fundamentalism
At Love’s Command, the Romance Novel with Genocide
“Romance Writers Of America Was Doing Better With Race — Until A Recent Award Choice”, by Karen Grigsby Bates on NPR.com, August 05 2021
“Romance Writers of America Rescind Award for Lakota Genocide Redemption Narrative,” by Steve Ammidown in The Library Journal, August 26 2021
“When a Jew loves a Nazi: Holocaust romance's award listings cause outrage”, by Alison Flood in The Guardian, August 10, 2015
“A Nazi, A Jewish Prisoner, And A ‘Magic’ Bible, Or, Christian Romance Fiction Gone Very, Very Wrong”, by Julia Seymour on Religion Dispatches, September 05 2015
Creating the Innocent Killer, by John Kessel in Foundation, the International Review of Science Fiction, Vol. 33, No 90, Spring 2004
Ender and Hitler: Sympathy for the Superman, by Elaine Radford
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