Critics say he’s eroding the #SeparationOfChurchAndState.

“The ones celebrating this are the ones leaning toward this #ChristianNationalist bent, this ideology that #Christians should have dominion over the #UnitedStates #government,” said the Rev. Shannon Fleck, executive director of Faithful America, a progressive #Christian group.

“We’re bringing back religion in our country,” #Trump contended at a Rose Garden event on the National Day of #Prayer in May.

His *faith adviser*, pastor Paula White-Cain, proclaimed that in his admin, #faith “has been brought back to where it always belongs, & that is center.”

…The IRS’s new approach is the latest in a string of triumphs for #conservative #Christian groups, which are leveraging their alliance with #Trump to redraw boundaries between #ChurchAndState.

For now, the implications of this latest victory are unclear. On paper, the new #IRS policy appears narrow. It grants more freedom only to houses of worship, which the agency already seemed disinclined to police.

this month, the #IRS reinterpreted the ban, known as the Johnson Amendment, saying for the first time that #churches could endorse candidates from the pulpit. The change, which came in a legal settlement, nullifies a core tenet of the #law, giving #Christian #conservatives their most significant victory involving #church #political organizing in 70 yrs. Their ultimate goal is to totally eliminate the law, through #Congress or #SCOTUS, removing all its limits on their #political activities.

In the Blue Room of the White House, once the cameras recording the Easter prayer service cut off, the conversation at #Trump’s dinner table turned to one of the biggest political goals for #conservative #Christian activists — eliminating a #law that banned #churches, & other #TaxExempt charitable groups, from endorsing #political candidates.

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Hartl ist neo-charismatischer Katholik, sein Gebetshaus ist nicht freikirchlich, sondern überkonfessionell neo-charismatisch. Da gibt es Lutheraner, Katholiken, Reformierte, Pietisten, Evangelikale, Leute aus diversen Freikirchen, die alle mehrheitlich zur neo-charismatischen Bewegung gehören.

Das Kernelement ist die neo-charismatische Frömmigkeit mit Zeichen und Wundern, Zungenreden, Krankenheilungen, spiritueller Kriegsführung, "Claim it, take it", Prosperity Gospel - aber ganz sicher nicht freikirchliche Ekklesiologie.

Sorry, Freikirche ist etwas ganz anderes. Korrekt wäre "überkonfessionell".

Ja, ich weiß: "Freikirchlich" wird heute gerne für alles verwendet, was man für ganz doll böse hält, synonym zu evangelikal.

Hartl ist übrigens nicht jemand mit einem "katholischem Hintergrund", er ist römisch-katholisch. Nicht wie J.D. Vance katholischer Neo-Integralismus, sondern eben neo-charismatisch.

Hartl ist ein Vertreter der New Apostolic Reformation, einer interkonfessionellen neo-charismatischen Bewegung, die aus den USA und Lateinamerika kommend auch immer mehr hierzulande Fuß fasst und nach rechts außen weit offen ist.

Ihr habt es übrigens fertiggebracht, die NAR in Eurem Artikel gar nicht zu erwähnen. Dabei ist diese Bewegung nicht nur die heute am schnellsten wachsende christliche Sonderlehre, sondern auch die mit Abstand gefährlichste.

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2025/06/23/mazes-and-monsters-the-prophets-are-dms/ #NAR

Start of this :

https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/114427947242091075

“Certainly one way to do it is create them directly by statute & have them controlled by directors who are themselves public officials,” he said. In some states “they’re part of the government.”

“So a holding here may apply in some states & may not apply in others,” #Gorsuch said.

“Exactly right,” Sauer replied. [wrong]

But in most states, most or all of their #CharterSchools are run by #private entities, acc/to Carol Burris, exec dir of the Network for #Public #Education.