The John School Movement

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Every chapter is a fascinating story that begins with one of these first person accounts. I heard or read somewhere you were raised Catholic but not super serious Catholic, I guess. And you at some point, I guess, abandoned that and now you're an agnostic or whatever you call yourself. Yeah. It seemed broadly agnostic with raised Catholic. But when my grandfather died when he was about 10, Mum said we don't have to go to church anymore on Sundays. So it seemed like a lot of people. Just try and tell a global story that has really gone under the radar.

Shermer and Hardy discuss: Hardy’s religious journey (raised Catholic, now agnostic) • origin of Pentecostalism and its biblical basis Pentecostalism in Korea North and South, and Israel • the structure of the Pentecostal church and how it differs from other churches • Seven Mountain Mandate • how religions grow • pentecostalism and politics • the psychology of the believer • dispensationalism and the Rapture • prophecy • glossolalia • snake handling • eschatology and end-times theology • sin and redemption • prostitution • Jordan Peterson and secular religion.

Elle Hardy is a journalist and foreign correspondent who has reported from the United States, the former USSR and North Korea, among a long list of places. Her work has appeared in GQ, Lonely Planet, Foreign Policy and Business Insider, and on ABC Australia. Her new book is Beyond Belief: How Pentecostal Christianity is Taking Over the World.