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Dutch Sheets
William Dutch Sheets (born March 10, 1954) is an American author and pastor affiliated with the New Apostolic Reformation movement who has written 23 books. Early life Sheets was born in Ohio; his father was a Church of the Nazarene, Nazarene Evangelist and pastor. They cowrote the book, ''The Gold That Washed Ashore'' in 2007. He grew up in Middletown, Ohio, and began his undergraduate studies at Miami University of Ohio before transferring to Christ for the Nations Institute in Dallas, Texas. He graduated with a degree in Biblical Studies in 1978. Career In 1979, Sheets became the Contemporary worship, worship leader and Student Ministry Director at Christ for the Nations Institute where he was a student. In 1983, he began teaching at The Living Word Bible College in Middletown, Ohio, which he did until 1986. He was an adjunct Professor at Christian Life School of Theology in Dallas, Texas from 1986 until 1999, as well as Christ for the Nations Institute, his alma mater. In 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ohio
Ohio ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Lake Erie to the north, Pennsylvania to the east, West Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Indiana to the west, and Michigan to the northwest. Of the 50 List of states and territories of the United States, U.S. states, it is the List of U.S. states and territories by area, 34th-largest by area. With a population of nearly 11.9 million, Ohio is the List of U.S. states and territories by population, seventh-most populous and List of U.S. states and territories by population density, tenth-most densely populated state. Its List of capitals in the United States, capital and List of cities in Ohio, most populous city is Columbus, Ohio, Columbus, with the two other major Metropolitan statistical area, metropolitan centers being Cleveland and Cincinnati, alongside Dayton, Ohio, Dayton, Akron, Ohio, Akron, and Toledo, Ohio, Toledo. Ohio is nicknamed th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steven Beshear
Steven Lynn Beshear ( ; born September 21, 1944) is an American attorney and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 61st governor of Kentucky from 2007 to 2015. He served in the Kentucky House of Representatives from 1974 to 1980, was the state's 44th attorney general from 1980 to 1983 and was the 49th lieutenant governor from 1983 to 1987. After having graduated from the University of Kentucky College of Law in 1968, Beshear briefly practiced law in New York before returning to Kentucky and being elected to the state legislature, where he gained a reputation as a consumer advocate. He parlayed that reputation into a term as attorney general, serving under Governor John Y. Brown Jr. As attorney general, Beshear issued an opinion that copies of the Ten Commandments must be removed from the walls of the state's classrooms in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in '' Stone v. Graham''. He also clashed with first lady Phyllis George Brown when he o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Trump
Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who is the 47th president of the United States. A member of the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party, he served as the 45th president from 2017 to 2021. Born into a wealthy family in the New York City borough of Queens, Trump graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1968 with a bachelor's degree in economics. He became the president of his family's real estate business in 1971, renamed it the Trump Organization, and began acquiring and building skyscrapers, hotels, casinos, and golf courses. He launched side ventures, many licensing the Trump name, and filed for six business bankruptcies in the 1990s and 2000s. From 2004 to 2015, he hosted the reality television show ''The Apprentice (American TV series), The Apprentice'', bolstering his fame as a billionaire. Presenting himself as a political outsider, Trump won the 2016 United States presidential e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Attempts To Overturn The 2020 United States Presidential Election
After Democratic Party (United States), Democratic nominee Joe Biden won the 2020 United States presidential election, Republican Party (United States), Republican nominee and then-incumbent president Donald Trump pursued an unprecedented effort to overturn the election, with support from Donald Trump 2020 presidential campaign, his campaign, proxies, political allies, and many of his supporters. These efforts culminated in the January 6 United States Capitol attack, January 6 Capitol attack by Trump supporters in an attempted Self-coup, self-coup d'état.Multiple sources: * * * * * * * * * * * * Trump and his allies used the "Big lie#Donald Trump's false claims of a stolen election, big lie" propaganda technique to promote claims that had been proven false and Conspiracy theory, conspiracy theories asserting the election was stolen by means of rigged voting machines, electoral fraud and an international conspiracy. Trump pressed United States Department of Just ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020 United States Presidential Election
United States presidential election, Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 3, 2020. The Democratic Party (United States), Democratic ticket of former vice president Joe Biden and California junior senator Kamala Harris defeated the incumbent Republican Party (United States), Republican president Donald Trump and vice president Mike Pence. The election saw the highest Voter turnout in United States presidential elections, voter turnout by percentage 1900 United States presidential election, since 1900. Biden received more than 81 million votes, the List of United States presidential candidates by number of votes received, most votes ever cast for a presidential candidate in U.S. history. In a competitive primary that featured the most candidates for any political party in the Sixth Party System, modern era of American politics, Biden secured the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries, Democratic presidential nomination. Biden's running ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pine Tree Flag
The Pine Tree Flag (or the An Appeal to Heaven Flag) was one of the flags used during the American Revolution. The flag, which featured a pine tree with the motto "An Appeal to Heaven", or less frequently "An Appeal to God", was used by a squadron of six schooners commissioned under George Washington's authority as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army beginning in October 1775. The pine tree is a traditional symbol of New England. The phrase "appeal to heaven" appears in John Locke's '' Second Treatise on Government'', where it is used to describe the right of revolution. It is also used by liberty activists and enthusiasts of the American Revolution to commemorate the Pine Tree Riot, one of the first acts of resistance by the American colonists to British royal authority eventually culminating in the American Revolution. Background Colonists adopted the pine as a symbol on flags and currency in the 17th century, including variants of the flag of New England and coin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Nationalism
Christian nationalism is a form of religious nationalism that focuses on promoting the Christian views of its followers, in order to achieve prominence or Dominion theology, dominance in political, cultural, and social life. In countries with a state church, Christian nationalists seek to preserve the status of a Christian state. By country Brazil In Brazil, Christian nationalism, a result of a Catholicism, Catholic-Evangelical Christianity, Evangelical coalition, has a goal of curbing the influence of "moral relativism, social liberalism, alleged neo-Marxism in its various forms, and LBGTQ rights". A 2024 Pew Research Center survey found that 13% of Brazilians self-identified as "religious nationalists". Canada The COVID-19 pandemic saw a rise in Christian nationalist activity with many groups using anti-lockdown sentiments to expand their reach to more people. The group Liberty Coalition Canada has garnered support from many elected politicians across Canada. In their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Religion Dispatches
''Religion Dispatches'' is a secular daily non-profit online magazine covering religion, politics, and culture. RD covers topics of religious thought, past and present, that underwrite social structures (with a special focus on inequality and injustice). It was founded in 2007. The founders were Gary Laderman, a religion studies scholar from Emory University; Linell Cady, a religion studies scholar from Arizona State University; and Evan Derkacz, a journalist who formerly wrote for ''AlterNet''. Lisa Webster, an editor and religion scholar, joined Evan as co-editor just before the magazine's launch in February 2008. RD has won three Religion Newswriters Association (RNA) awards for Excellence in Religion Commentary and Analysis, a Wilbur Award for outstanding work by secular communicators on religion, and a Science for Religion Writers award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The website was also recognized as an official Nominee for Webby Awards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chuck Pierce
Charles D. Pierce is the founder and current president of Glory of Zion International Ministries. He is most known for his "prophecies," including a successful prediction that Donald Trump would be elected to the US presidency and a failed prediction that Donald Trump would be reelected in 2020. Pierce is an author of several books of prophecy and frequent speaker on the subject. In 1999 he was a founder, and is one of the current leaders of, the New Apostolic Reformation. Early Ministry As of 1999, Pierce was vice president of Global Harvest Ministries. Glory of Zion International Ministries Pierce is the founder and current president of Glory of Zion International Ministries, located in Corinth, Texas. Glory of Zion International Ministries is a Vertical apostolic network. It includes a former Boeing aircraft factory as its headquarters and Sunday worship center; 600 house churches where small groups meet to view the services online; 1000 associated 501(c3) nonprofits; an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Goll
James W. Goll (born July 3, 1952), formerly known as Jim Goll, is a New Apostolic Reformation Christian evangelist in the U.S. Early life and education James W. "Jim" Goll was on born July 3, 1952, in Missouri. Career Goll has worked as a Christian evangelist in the United States, as a part of the broader New Apostolic Reformation. Goll was listed, in 1999, as a member of the Apostolic Council of Prophetic Elders, with Cindy Jacobs, Chuck Pierce, Dutch Sheets, and C. Peter Wagner. Goll's ministry focuses on prophecy, and he has been termed one (as one of the Kansas City Prophets). He is an adviser and a voice in the global prayer and prophetic movements. In addition, he is an author, and the founder of Global Prayer Storm, and God Encounters Ministries. He is also coordinator of Encounters Alliance, co-founder of Encounters Network, an instructor at C. Peter Wagner's Wagner Leadership Institute, and a member of the Harvest International Ministries apostolic team. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cindy Jacobs
Cindy Jacobs (born August 1951) is an American Independent Charismatic prophet, speaker, author and teacher, and member of C. Peter Wagner's New Apostolic Reformation movement. With her husband, Mike Jacobs, she cofounded Generals International, a prayer and spiritual warfare organization, in 1985. The couple has two children, Daniel and Kyrin. She has been called "one of the most influential American prophets" by ''The New York Times''. Early life and education Jacobs was born in San Antonio, Texas, and grew up in a Baptist family. From a young age, Jacobs felt she was supernaturally gifted; she also states that when she was only nine years old, she heard a call from God to read Psalm 2:8, and that this was decisive for her future as an international speaker. She attended Grand Canyon University, where she began to engage in aspects of Charismatic belief such as speaking in tongues. In 1973 she married Mike Jacobs. Two years later, she earned a B.A. in Music from Pepperdine Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Bickle (minister)
Michael Leroy Bickle (born July 17, 1955) is a former American evangelical leader and founder of the International House of Prayer (IHOPKC)''.'' Once the leader of IHOPKC, Bickle oversaw several ministries and a Bible school until his dismissal in December 2023 after confessing to sexual misconduct. Bickle has also been accused of child sexual abuse. Ministry Bickle became an evangelical Christian at fifteen at a Fellowship of Christian Athletes student conference in Colorado. Bickle claims to have had several encounters with God during his ministry, including hearing the audible voice of God and being taken to heaven twice. Bickle's accounts of supernatural encounters were disputed following his confession to sexual misconduct. In 1999, Bickle stopped working for the church that he was pastoring, Metro Christian Fellowship, and started the International House of Prayer (IHOPKC). IHOPKC is known for its daily prayer meetings that are held 24 hours a day since September 19, 1999. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
