# Evidence Map Full-vault sweep, 2026-07-20: three parallel searches (Readwise corpus; non-Readwise vault; theology-wiki inventory) across ~45 NAR-related terms plus variants. Genuine-match totals: ~214 Readwise highlight notes (+ ~73 unique full-text bodies), ~80 non-Readwise files, ~200 theology-wiki pages. Below: the load-bearing sources by evidence tier, with attribution verified from file metadata (never assumed from vault ownership). ## Tier 1 — Primary sources (NAR-associated leaders' own words) | Source | Author (verified) | Location | |---|---|---| | *When Heaven Invades Earth* | Bill Johnson (Bethel) | [[4. Archives/Book reviews/When Heaven Invades Earth\|Book review]] · [Kindle](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01A63AXZM) | | *Culture of Honor*, *Unpunishable* | Danny Silk (Bethel) | [[4. Archives/Book reviews/Culture of Honor\|review]] ([Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0768431468)), [[4. Archives/Book reviews/Unpunishable\|review]] ([Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/dp/1947165763)) (May 2026 critical reassessment) | | *Building an Apostolic People* | John Kingsley Alley (Peace Apostolic Network) | [[3. Resources/Readwise/Books/Building an Apostolic People\|Kindle highlights]] · [Kindle](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CKFT5OK) | | *The Removal of Restraint* | Sam Soleyn | [[3. Resources/Readwise/Books/The Removal of Restraint\|Kindle highlights]] (highlighted 2013 — pre-exit) · [Kindle](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BF77ZGJL) (2022 reissue; original 2013 ASIN delisted) | | *My Father! My Father!* | Sam Soleyn & Nicholas Soleyn | [[3. Resources/Readwise/Books/My Father! My Father!\|Kindle highlights]] — the dedicated spiritual-fathering text · [Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DCZ9M1SN) (current edition; original ASIN delisted) | | *Spiritual Java* | Bill Johnson, Kris Vallotton, Kevin Dedmon, Beni Johnson, Danny Silk, Banning Liebscher | [[3. Resources/Readwise/Books/Spiritual Java\|Kindle highlights]] · [Kindle](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00513PL5K) | | Bill Johnson defends TPT (Rediscover Bethel, 2021) | Bill Johnson, on Bethel's own channel | [[2026-07-16-bill-johnson-defends-passion-translation]] | | Kris Vallotton sermons; Bethel official statements | Vallotton; Bethel Church | Readwise Articles + Full Document Contents | | Church self-descriptions (statements of faith, network pages) | WHO Chambersburg; DOVE International; Overflow | Religious Research dossiers | | Wagner's framework (via chapter authorship: Kreider in *The New Apostolic Churches*, 1998) | C. Peter Wagner / Larry Kreider | [[DOVE International]], [[C. Peter Wagner]] | | *Warfare Prayer* · *The New Apostolic Churches* · *Spiritual Warfare Strategy* · *Discover Your Spiritual Gifts* | C. Peter Wagner | Four primary texts reviewed in-vault 2026-09-04 with page/paragraph anchors: [[4. Archives/Book reviews/Warfare Prayer\|Warfare Prayer]] ([Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0768431077)), [[4. Archives/Book reviews/The New Apostolic Churches\|The New Apostolic Churches]] ([Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0830721371)), [[4. Archives/Book reviews/Spiritual Warfare Strategy\|Spiritual Warfare Strategy]], [[4. Archives/Book reviews/Discover Your Spiritual Gifts\|Discover Your Spiritual Gifts]]. First two now on the guide page. | ## Tier 2 — First-person accounts (former members, survivors, family) | Source | Person (verified) | Location | |---|---|---| | Welton Academy exposé — nine named survivor/witness accounts (Renee Lorraine, Eric Gregson, Lindsay Wallace, Don Weaver, Ashley McCreary, Eileen Corona, Jill Monaco, Steve Hogan, anonymous "Jane Doe") | speakers named in video; notes by Courtney | [[2026-05-19-bethels-book-platformed-a-wolf-video]] + [[1. Projects/Religious Research/Bethel - Book Platformed a Wolf - Video Notes\|full video notes]] | | Bethel survivor "Sarah" (Ben Armstrong case) | "Sarah" (pseudonymous survivor) | Readwise Full Document Contents (2 items) | | Harvest Rock exit | Pia Hugo | [[3. Resources/Readwise/Articles/Escaping the Cave Pia Hugo on Harvest Rock, and Spiritual Abuse Podcast Episode 592\|Ep. 592]] + Ep. 659 | | Potter's House exit (37 years) | Dennis Crosby, interviewed by John Collins | [[2026-06-20-leaving-the-message-potters-house-escape-ep636]] | | BSSM graduate on TPT reception inside Bethel | Dusty May Taylor | [[2026-07-16-bethel-alumni-calls-out-passion-translation]] | | Ex-NAR insiders (intercessory-prayer control) | Desjardins family | wiki source 2026-06-20 ep637 | | Apostolic-network exit after 30 years (Kenosha, WI congregation; the network's apostle is a family member) | John & Korey Cooper (Skillet), interviewed by Alisa Childers — **note the attribution trap: Reader records `author: Alisa Childers`, the interviewer; the first-person witnesses are the Coopers** | [[3. Resources/Readwise/Articles/Skillet's John and Korey Cooper Break Their Silence About NAR & Church Abuse\|full analysis]] ([watch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GwayjaKqfQ)) · added 2026-09-09 | | Deconstruction memoirs | April Ajoy; Michael Gungor; Cara Meredith | Book reviews (Star-Spangled Jesus; This; Church Camp) | ## Tier 3 — Scholarly / expert analysis | Source | Expert (verified) | Location | |---|---|---| | *A New Apostolic Reformation?* + *Counterfeit Kingdom* | Holly Pivec & R. Douglas Geivett | Readwise Books + wiki source pages · [Kindle 1](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07HCVBLP7), [Kindle 2](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BH8PS3FS) | | *The Violent Take It by Force* | Matthew D. Taylor (ICJS) | [[3. Resources/Readwise/Books/The Violent Take It by Force\|Kindle highlights]] + podcast Ep. 45 full text · [Kindle](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CTJHYQ9J) | | *The Rise of Network Christianity* (INC Christianity) | Brad Christerson & Richard Flory (Oxford, 2017) | cited in [[Translocal Networking, Local Isolation]] — **not yet fully ingested** | | *Combating Cult Mind Control* (BITE model) | Steven Hassan | Book review + [[BITE Model]] · [Kindle](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00V9DU340) | | *The New Charismatics* (1992) | Michael G. Moriarty | Reading notes, 3. Resources/Reading | | DARVO framework | Jennifer Freyd | [[DARVO]] | | Religious Trauma Syndrome | Marlene Winell | cited in WHO report + [[Religious Trauma]] | | Worship formation scholarship | Monique Ingalls; Valerie Hobbs; Gerardo Marti | wiki entities/concepts ([[Hillsongization]]) | | TPT scholar reviews | Longman, Gupta, Bock, Blomberg, Moo, Rydelnik (via Winger's Passion Project) | Readwise Articles/Podcasts | | Investigative journalism | Kathryn Joyce; Roys Report; Christianity Today | Readwise Articles | ## Tier 4 — Commentary (discernment media, podcasts, YouTube) Largest bloc (~150+ files): Mike Winger, The Remnant Radio (Joshua Lewis), Leaving the Message / WBHR (John Collins), Charismania episode series (389–659), Holly Pivec's podcast, "NAR the Series" (11 episodes), Jed Hartley, Minor Prophets Podcast. **Added September 2026:** WBHR Ep. 699, [[3. Resources/Readwise/Articles/What Is the New Apostolic Reformation The History Behind the NAR Revival Exposed 699\|"What Is the New Apostolic Reformation? The History Behind the NAR"]] ([watch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1B48isiufw)) — a *historical* rather than doctrinal account tracing three streams (Dowie's restoration/healing, Latter Rain incl. Branham, charismatic networks via Wimber/Wagner/Bickle); and WBHR Ep. 696, [[3. Resources/Readwise/Articles/How Religious Leaders Make Themselves Untouchable John McKinnon Podcast Episode 696\|"How Religious Leaders Make Themselves Untouchable"]] ([watch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_9YzcxFozE)) — built on a single primary document, Branham's 30 June 1958 letter to C. Parker Thomas. **Treated as weakest tier throughout** — used for leads and pattern-corroboration, flagged `source-caution` in wiki source notes. Note the metadata trap: YouTube-sourced Readwise notes carry `author: YouTube`; real channel recovered from title/URL. ## Tier 5 — Courtney's own research and analysis Verified by frontmatter (`author: Courtney R.`) or provenance: - [[1. Projects/Religious Research/World Harvest Outreach|World Harvest Outreach report]] (Nov 2025, ~7,900 words) — local hard-pole audit + NAR primer. - [[1. Projects/Religious Research/DOVE International and Overflow Community Church|DOVE/Overflow audit]] (2026-07-19) — soft-pole network audit. - [[3. Resources/Literature Notes/Worship as Manipulation in the NAR and a Framework for Liberation|When the Music Is the Message]] — worship research report (author: Courtney R.). - WHO sermon corpus analysis — 663 sermons, 13,327 coded fallacy instances → [[NAR Fallacy Taxonomy]]. - ~40 Permanent Notes + ~18 Literature Notes (see [[NAR and Charismatic Authority Critique MOC]]). - "Translocal networking, local isolation" field formulation (now scholarly-grounded in the concept page). ## Attribution corrections & traps (verified during this project) - Readwise YouTube/podcast notes: `author:` = platform, not creator. Always recover the speaker from title/URL/`show_author`. - Kindle-highlight notes: attribute to the **book's author** (e.g., *The Removal of Restraint* → Sam Soleyn), never the vault owner. - The Welton video notes are Courtney's paraphrase of the Speak Up podcast (John Mark, Ron Caner) — three layers: video host ≠ note author ≠ survivors quoted. - `Prince of Peace Spoken Word.md` is by Courtney Robertson (vault owner as author — the exception, verified in frontmatter). - Do not confuse DOVE International (Lancaster, PA) with Dove World Outreach Center (Terry Jones, FL) — flagged in the DOVE dossier. ## Where sources disagree (carried into the page) 1. **Does the NAR exist as a coherent thing?** Wagner/insiders: yes, gladly (1990s); many current leaders: no, critics' label; Pivec/Geivett & Taylor: yes, as networks and shared theology. Page resolves by describing structures, not litigating the label. 2. **Prophecy and psychic-adjacent practice:** demonic-power reading (some discernment critics) vs. cold-reading/naturalistic reading (Pivec's magician interview). Page avoids adjudicating; treats directive prophecy as a governance problem either way. 3. **Continuationism vs. cessationism:** Remnant Radio (continuationist insiders) critique Bethel while defending the gifts; G3/Aniol condemn the whole stream. Page keeps charismatic practice per se out of the risk list. 4. **Positive testimony vs. structural risk:** DOVE/Overflow audit found no survivor accounts; WHO corpus shows heavy fallacy density without public abuse cases. Page states both: beliefs create risk conditions; governance decides outcomes.