"Church, it's time to get our hands dirty again! Don't be afraid of what's out there. God said, let your light shine and the darkness will be overtaken! Just love, love, love is the dirt on our hands." Lord's House of Prayer's Pastor Kroll at last week's Rededicate Lancaster to God ceremony. A/

ICYMI: County Commissioners Josh Parsons and Ray D'Agostino were presented with a decree rededicating Lancaster County to God by noteworthy NAR Apostle Abby Abildness last Monday. None of the primary players amplified this event. No one has reported on it.

Per @lancasteronline.bsky.social, Lancaster had (has?) its own "local chapter" in what was then-called Day Seven, now called Hope and Restoration Counseling. I say “has” because Christian orgs have a thing for changing their name to hide their past. 1/ LNP: 6/29/1996 (L), 3/31/1989 (R)

We have far fewer Christian Nationalists in government in Oregon than Pennsylvania. We have a few but they often lose.

🎯🧵reporting on Lancaster, PA, a hotbed of sedition. It has a leading election denier as a county commissioner & a leading 'Apostle' and a whole network of churches associated with the New Apostolic Reformation, which portrays secular government as ungodly & Democrats as demons.

Research 🧵on NAR and related matters.

Important thread

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Hey Lancaster, PA! Remember that time when @allvotingislocal.bsky.social rightly included our very own County Commissioner in their list of the Top 10 Most Dangerous Election Deniers? You know, right up there with Bondi, DeSantis and Trump? Pretty wild, right? 1/

A Lancaster County charity that says it distributes tens of thousands of meals to food banks serving the needy every day is facing a multimillion-dollar financial storm, mounting debt and the potential foreclosure on a key warehouse, an LNP |… lanc.news/4v4ExIg

2005: While living in Indiana, the Lapp family was excommunicated from the Amish community and returned to Pennsylvania. lanc.news/4uV8ni7

Founded in 2006 in an Ephrata garage, Blessings of Hope has evolved into a regional middleman that addresses food waste and hunger and claims to provide the equivalent of more than 50,000 meals a day. lanc.news/4wIFwiR

@lancasteronline.bsky.social is bringing us FOUR fresh articles on the Lapp Bros / Blessings of Hope. SUBSCRIBE to local journalism. Stories like this do not come to fruition otherwise! Here is a collection of my favorite posts since joining Bluesky. How I wish I could share the Twitter ones! 1/

OMG Lancaster County. Do you know what our GOP County Commissioners got up to yesterday? Local news doesn't. Watch this space.

NYU Langone Releases Grand Jury Subpoena: Feds Want Names Of Every Trans Youth Care Patient open.substack.com/pub/erininth...

Messiah grad Lou Engle, extremely popular amongst South Central PA NAR circles. They love to imitate him.

The Bartons have been friends with leading prophet Cindy Jacobs and her family for decades.

(after first inititiating and prolonging the atrocities)

This is probably going to sound snarky but I sincerely want to know: At what point after a political candidate is endorsed by a pseudo-historian Christian nationalist does that detail become no longer relevant? 1/ @lancasteronline.bsky.social

Tomorrow morning, we will be dropping a ~12,000 word story on Paul Pressler, the alleged sexual predator who remade the Southern Baptist Convention and helped ordain the marriage between the GOP and white evangelical voters. There is *a lot* in there and I hope you'll read it.

Dayspring Christian Academy's "Remember America Speaker Series" annual headliner event starts in about 30 minutes. Let's squeeze in a few thoughts... 1/

Lancaster misses @brettsholtis.bsky.social and his work.

Fig Mag published this piece on David Greene’s taking the helm at @lancasteronline.bsky.social as it transitions to a nonprofit model. Greene earned his accolades and LNP faces significant challenges. I am grateful that Greene is invested in Lancaster’s news ecosystem. But also this is BS. 1/

This film is connect to a NAR apostle. Newsrooms pick and choose stories; they can’t tell them all. Let’s not offer a veneer of respectability to anti democratic institutions.

Lancaster middle school should seize teachable moment about antisemitism, hate speech [editorial] lanc.news/4sTXxrz

“Russ Vought set out to ensure a second Trump term would not be hampered by checks and balances: ‘I don’t want…Trump having to lose a moment of time having fights in the Oval Office about whether something is legal or doable or moral.’” @propublica.org 10/17/25… 1/ www.propublica.org/article/russ...

“Hegseth mentor Doug Wilson's vision for a Christian nation means married women can't vote *** During a town hall at an Idaho University, Wilson and his fellow pastors pitched a vision of America with no LGBTQ+ rights, no divorce and no voting rights for married women” 4/10/26 … 1/

“In recent years, The Maine Wire and its parent organization, the libertarian-leaning Maine Policy Institute, benefited from millions of dollars in donations from entities associated with Leonard Leo… & Thomas D. Klingenstein, a MAGA megadonor & chair of the…Claremont Institute.” 4/8/26 … 1/

@lancasteronline.bsky.social: How I hope you see this. You’ve published three pieces on Sight and Sound’s A Great Awakening in the ten days or so. It feels like a reasonable perception of endorsement. Lies become truth if told often enough. Locals have already been fed from a poisoned well. A/

Congratulation to Astronaut Christina Koch to be the first woman in history to get that far away from dangerous sexual predator Donald Trump.

"....This movie...looks more like religious propaganda than a credible historical drama."

Per @lancasteronline.bsky.social: "Critic reviews scored as negative on Rotten Tomatoes question some of the film's historical accuracy and mention the level to which it pushes a Christian viewpoint." Let's take a closer look at what those reviews say. 1/ LNP: tinyurl.com/yhbh66zc

My followers should not be surprised that TWO of the top 24 Leaders of the New Apostolic Reformation work in South Central PA -- with one being from Elizabethtown, a municipality in Lancaster County that is often in the news for dominionist activity. Charles Stock and Abby Abildness. 1/

Will the new Secretary of Homeland Security dance with the ones that brung him? politicalresearch.org/2026/04/02/m...

Sight & Sound is a dominionist outfit and IMO @lancasteronline.bsky.social gives them a lot of free promotion, more than LNP provides coverage of Christian nationalism on the local level. I don’t think this is intentional. I also don’t think it’s good look for Lancaster. 1/

Video and photos from No Kings rally in Lancaster, PA lancasteronline.com/news/local/n...

We had an excellent time talking to our community about 287(g) agreements, local ICE operations, authoritarian strategies, the billionaire agenda, and so much more! We look forward to having follow-up conversations with several new friends in the fight!💕 No ICE. No War. No Billionaires. #NoKings

Protestors were beginning to gather in Lancaster city Saturday to protest President Donald Trump’s administration as a part of the nationwide “No Kings” protest. lanc.news/4dOxdei

open.substack.com/pub/thetatto... Separation of church and state isn't complicated.

As someone who studies Christian nationalism and theologies of Christian extremism, I think this is a really important story, and Pamela Brown and her team did serious, consequential work here.

I was interviewed for @cnn.com's upcoming documentary "The Rise of Christian Nationalism," part of The Whole Story with Pamela Brown. It examines how extreme ideas & leaders have moved from the margins of evangelical culture into real political power — reshaping homes, schools, and government.

President of Brandeis co-wrote this absolute hot trash of a piece. Do not go to Brandeis.

The social truth is that President Epstein the PedoFelon has jeopardized all our lives, our country and the world with his stupid move trying to deflect from the release of the TrumpStein Files by bombing Iran. The Guardians Of Pedophiles party needs to be ousted, sooner the better.

While the admin offers different explanations nearly every hour, U.S. military commanders are telling troops that the war is for biblical "end times" and that the Trump has been "anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon."

Here’s what Dayspring posted on social media the same day @lancasteronline.bsky.social published this article. 1/

Excellent reporting from @lancasteronline.bsky.social’s @ashleystal.bsky.social. Stalnecker weaves a number of interviews into the story provided by a former Dayspring parent. Don’t miss it 👇👇👇 1/

This is super interesting: Shannan Martin used to work for the HERITAGE FOUNDATION. @lancasteronline.bsky.social shares that Martin "blogged about her departure from the Republican Party" ahead of the 2024 election. I'm glad they included that detail and wish they hyperlinked to the blog. 1/

Here’s former Dayspring parent Will Mullen sharing at least part of what he knows. Mullen is credible, IMO. His family was directly impacted by some of the events outlined in the lawsuit. Video link below. 4/ tinyurl.com/ysb5hv36

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We now know why LS was playing for Lancaster County Christian. Turns out there is so much more to this story. 1/