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http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/tls_selections/religion/article2400899.eceHaven’t read this. Looks interesting.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/29/163234/559/495/579213

A look at the home website of Palin’s church tends to be revealing. Among other things, a particular Assemblies buzzword associated frequently with Hillsong A/G and New Zealand Assemblies churches shows up (”Destiny”, here, is a buzzword for “Joel’s Army”, and is being preferred even as the phrase “Joel’s Army” is getting enough negative spin that even the Assemblies is now having to do some rather massive spin control); cell churches are promoted (of the same sort that are linked to short-term and longterm psychological damage and are among the most coercive tactics ever documented in spiritually abusive groups). The church, like a number of other large Assemblies churches, is the center of a dominionist broadcast TV center whose programming is carried across multiple channels in Alaska.In a trend that has been recently documented by no less than Southern Poverty Law Center (in its recent report on the Joel’s Army movement), the church operates a Seven Project-esque targeted recruitment campaign aiming at teens (this is common across the Assemblies and across “Joel’s Army” groups in general; fully a third of the documented national-level front groups operated by the Assemblies target teens). And…believe you me, Palin’s church is definitely “Joel’s Army”.

More interesting stuff1. “Sarah Palin,” Wikipedia, Accessed August 29, 2008 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin2. “McCain Selects Anti-Choice Sarah Palin as Running Mate,” NARAL Pro-Choice America, August 29, 2008 http://www.moveon.org/r?r=17515&id=13661-8071182-33W079x&t=13. “Sarah Palin, Buchananite,” The Nation, August 29, 2008 http://www.moveon.org/r?r=17736&id=13661-8071182-33W079x&t=2 4. “‘Creation science’ enters the race,” Anchorage Daily News, October 27, 2006 http://www.moveon.org/r?r=17737&id=13661-8071182-33W079x&t=3