So, they will work with powerful women — there’s no line they won’t cross in order to work with power and they believe that they’re theologically called to do so — but it’s on a male-leadership model. As journalist Katherine Stewart, who covers the religious right, explained in a New York Times article last December, the gist of the white evangelical view of Trump is "that he is a miracle sent straight from heaven to bring the nation back to the Lord" and "that resistance to Mr. Trump is tantamount to resistance to God.". Moss: We did hear from [former Tennessee representative] Zach Wamp about how he believes the organization is committed to a greater degree of transparency, to reflect the diversity of our modern moment in its own leadership. There’s no narration. That’s where the important work is — and what I want to be doing. The film’s stars including Florence Pugh, Harry Styles, and Chris Pine have all been quarantined. He brought a real sensitivity to the role. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Most evangelicals have nothing to do with the Family. What if we told you that an extremely private Christian sect believed, Jesse Moss: “The book completely escaped my attention when it came out, though I don’t know how. I think that those authoritarian relationships are a threat to our democracy, and it’s not theoretical. “Before, I did not intellectually understand a theology that would see people like our current president as instruments of God’s will. Trump is not the endgame, but he is, I think, a huge pivot. You go back into the records — this is stuff that we couldn’t get into the series — and you see that, actually, Hunter was traveling in conversation with the Reagan government. It’s the triumph of the Fellowship that it’s a combination of the two. "Cyrus is the model for a nonbeliever appointed by God as a vessel for the purposes of the faithful," Stewart wrote. At first glance, Netflix’s His House appears to be your typical, Beetlejuice. Does the theology of the Fellowship, where you preach to the up and out, and not the down and out, present an inherent challenge to transparency, accountability, and democracy? Emma Roberts has rom-coms in her blood. Rihanna Is In No Rush, Demands Every Vote Be Counted, “Count Every Vote We’ll Wait.”, Fox News Won the 2020 Election Night Ratings Battle, Somehow, Lana Del Rey Managed to Make Election Night About Her. I was impressed by the reporting and Jeff’s personal experience. I said there’s more than one kind of authoritarianism under the sun. It wasn’t that the Reagan administration was going to support democracy in Uganda and the Family convinced them otherwise. He’s the Ur-capitalist. Beetlejuice. They called them the Black Buffers. It’s really important to understand. I said they are not fascist. But I wonder if the Family sees Trump as a way to break things down, to the point where a more traditional politician like Josh Hawley of Missouri, or Tom Cotton of Arkansas —. Even if someone has only watched the series and hasn’t read Jeff’s books, it’s hard to avoid that we’re talking about a very male organization.
Meanwhile, Lori Loughlin Is in Prison and Reportedly Miserable, Meanwhile, he tweeted, “I am an eternal fire and burning love, either leave with a tan, a 3rd degree burn, or stay and die in love.”. Bring in the “Wolf King,” as Coe called this strong man, and you have a figure who could finally create a God-led government. The reality is that it’s not, it’s always been much more racially diverse — certainly internationally — but there’s also tiers of citizenship. And the leadership was based on the very explicit premise that the biggest problem facing blacks in America is the black man himself. (Evangelicals want to keep the option of walking back the Trump worship, if and when the whole thing goes sideways.)

“There’s an argument to be made, and the Fellowship makes it, that you can do more work if you preach to the powerful.

As for diversity, there’s this secular liberal fantasy that the Christian right has always been like the KKK. That God uses tools. We spoke to Jesse Moss, the creator of The Family, about casting Oliver Cromwell, Donald Trump as a "Wolf King," and what The Family might illuminate about America in 2019. He doesn’t know anything about the Bible. Sharlet: I would argue that time has told, because they said all those same things back in 2010 when Rachel Maddow and I forced them out into the open around the Uganda thing. A bunch of congressmen getting together to talk about how they struggle with masturbation, you can say that’s silly and goofy and innocuous. He’s got this swaggering masculinity. You\'ll receive the next newsletter in your inbox. If you worship power, the pursuit of it becomes a sacrament. Does it work? But what I get from your reporting, Jeff, and from the documentary, Jesse, is that hypocrisy is perhaps not the best way to understand this support. The word that tends to be commonly associated with Trump in evangelical circles is not "president," however. All rights reserved.

That’s the theology. Sharlet: You’re probably familiar with the tradition of muscular Christianity in American Christianity. But white evangelicals hold fast to him through it all. But smarter evangelical pastors understand that while their followers will swallow all sorts of nonsense, that's going too far. He appeared to concede his “campaign” — where else? We see now the rise of far-right authoritarian governments worldwide. Is it actually proof of a logically consistent, underlying ideology? They might say today that it’s ancient history, but that’s the DNA of the organization, of its philosophy and theology. Megachurch minister Jeremiah Johnson gave a sermon in 2015 laying out this argument. And they did it. It also draws from the earlier reporting of journalist Jeff Sharlet; the first episode dramatizes Sharlet’s infiltration of Ivanwald, an Arlington, Virginia home for young men run by Family associates. Copyright © 2019 Salon.com, LLC.
Her aunt, after all, is Julia Roberts, she of Pretty Woman, Notting Hill, While You Were Sleeping, My Best Friend? There’s another best seller, Every Woman’s Battle, and every woman’s battle is basically to keep her man sexually satisfied. But they do use language that compares him to Biblical figures they regard as anointed by God, and speak of him as a prophesied savior come to save America and turn it into the theocratic white-dominated nation-state of their dreams. “David Rysdahl played the young Jeff. Someone who will reorder society in the way that the Family wants. I’ll also say that when I ended up at this small [men’s] prayer group in Portland, it helped me understand on a non-intellectual level the attraction of a movement of men where I might work out my anxieties around sexuality or social standing or religion. Log in or link your magazine subscription, WELP: Guess How Many People Voted for ‘President Kanye’, Steve Kornacki Has at Least Been Forced to Take a Break, Savannah Guthrie Interrupts Trump’s ‘Not True’ Speech, Watching CNN on Election Night Felt Like Being Dipped in Boiling Oil. Someone who seems to evoke the worst authoritarian tendencies, and yet seems to have enjoyed the wholehearted embrace of Evangelical voters.

The Worst Brand Tweet of the Election Has Already Come and Gone, “We have removed him forcibly from the building.”, The Foo Fighters to Join Dave Chappelle for Postelection. We see this idea that if Jesus was alive today, he’d be a Navy SEAL. I wanted the male culture that Jeff found himself in to not be cast in a sinister way — at least initially.

Founded by Abraham Vereide as an outreach to elites, and led by Doug Coe for decades until his death in 2017, the Family reveres power and thrives in secrecy. We see that also embodied in someone like Mark Siljander, and Robert Aderholt’s work in Romania to campaign against same-sex marriage. The story was terrifying and the challenge of trying to adapt it was terrifying. All rights reserved. It was helpful to see why you might find refuge in this group and in this movement. But no doubt he loves hearing words like "king" and "chosen" and is now parroting them back — along with not-funny, not-jokes about how he'll still be president in 14 years — as the stress mounts over whether he can recreate the fluke election that got him into the White House in the first place. Why are the people most concerned with traditional family values so committed to Donald Trump? That’s the profound question we need to be asking. There's no way that Trump — who is always ready to hear that he's the greatest and most important and best and most beautiful person who ever lived — is unaware that Christian right leaders literally speak about him this way, as a vessel anointed by God to do his bidding on Earth. We’re not there yet, but we see the potential.


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