@lancasteronline.bsky.social Tagging you in case this feels newsworthy to you. Does this crew have the legal right to do this? For sure. Does the public deserve knowing about how the New Apostolic Reformation is maneuvering in plain sight? I’m not a journalist but I think so.

More and more Americans are seeing politics as a spiritual battle against actual demonic forces. In Tennessee, a bookstore owner found out exactly what that could mean: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

More and more Americans are seeing politics as a spiritual battle against actual demonic forces. In Tennessee, a bookstore owner found out exactly what that could mean: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

A growing number of charismatic Christians see themselves as waging a spiritual battle against the forces of Satan, Stephanie McCrummen writes. Sometimes those forces are right across the street.

Yet another must-read from Stephanie McCrummen for @theatlantic.com. Lancaster: We get a mention (somehow always) as does Global Awakening in nearby Mechanicsburg and who regularly hold big events in LancPA.

Something I haven’t seen addressed: the scale of these data centers are so vast they must be driving up the cost of building materials, like steel and cement. Ordinary home construction must be more expensive They cost us more than we think

PAULA WHITE: Nobody has stood up like you have stood up TRUMP: *sitting* *asleep*

Trump is starting to count sheep as Dan Patrick goes on and on

A top executive at Pennon, the public broadcaster that owns WITF and formerly owned LNP | LancasterOnline, claimed she faced retaliation for reporting significant financial problems surrounding the public media company’s acquisition and operation of LNP. lanc.news/44qvhTn

Highly recommend all of my followers to register for this!

Its early, but you can register for Part 2 of Challenging the Christian Right: Rifts & Strategies, which will be held June 25 at 1pm EDT. This webinar will feature Anthea Butler, Peter Montgomery, Keri Ladner, Naomi Washington-Leapheart and me. Details coming soon! us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Teachers’ paychecks have never fully reflected their passion or professionalism—but as the cost-of-living crisis persists, educators can’t afford even the basic necessities. Read my op-ed on why we must raise teacher pay, strengthen collective bargaining, and fund schools. time.com/article/2026...

Dit verhaal van correspondent Rinke Verkerk en @rosansmits.bsky.social publiceerden we ook in het Engels. Die vertaling vind je hier:

Got some faces of the people who participated in the Christian Nationalist "King's Army" march in downtown Portland over the weekend.

Yep. In Lancaster County PA. GOP voters ushered in all the trumpy local and state candidates at the primaries—roundly voting down any Republican that didn’t fully support Trump.

"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.

@lancasteronline.bsky.social @witf.bsky.social @buckscountybeacon.com @wgal8.bsky.social @cbs21.bsky.social

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/