This idea was the work of the apostles and prophets of the New Apostolic Reformation, a charismatic movement that began gathering momentum in the 1990s and is now the leading edge of the Christian right.
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Stephanie McCrummen,
The Atlantic,
18 May 2026
Like all prophets, The Storyteller arrives at an auspicious moment in human history.
Laqueur’s book dwells on the way that canines often function in art—as seers of things that people miss.
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Boris Kachka,
The Atlantic,
5 June 2026
Seeing around the bend in the river—or even knowing the river ahead does indeed bend—can require the sort of leap of faith that made Vannevar Bush insist that shamans, priests and spiritual seers are the antecedents of today’s engineering stars.
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