Pentecostals' Political Warfare

I took my first stroll around the Capitol Building on January 3, 2021, the day after I moved into the neighborhood. The air was misty and the sky was gray. While there were not many tourists or pedestrians in the area, a small crowd of worshippers caught my attention. The group was playing contemporary Christian music and dancing. But this was not your average evangelical gathering. Several people wore Jewish prayer shawls, and one blew a shofar, a ram's horn Jews use in the fall during the High Holy Days. Standing in front of them, in between the Capitol Building and the Supreme Court, I knew this was a particular, yet grossly misunderstood, subset of the evangelical umbrella: the Pentecostal-charismatic movement.