"I wonder what new doors to evangelism might be opened in sophisticated, tolerant, politically correct America if Christians started expressing their faith by encouraging those who possessed artifacts of magic or unclean books to burn them publicly?" -- C. Peter Wagner, top leader in the emerging charismatic Christian New Apostolic Reformation movement, from The Book of Acts: A Commentary, page 441 (1994, Regal Books)

Bothowner-founder Stephen Strang, and the magazine's longtime editor J. Lee Grady have each served as apostles in the International Coalition of Apostles , one of the main apostolic bodies in the New Apostolic Reformation - a dominionist movement tied to draconian anti-gay legislation in the African nation of Uganda, and whose top leaders promote the doctrine that heretical books should be burned, with extreme prejudice:

In 2010 Creation House - one of the book publishing imprints of Charisma magazine founder and head Stephen Strang - published a book by Florida evangelist Terry D. Jones with the unsubtle title Islam Is of The Devil.

Pastor Jones has gained international attention for holding public burnings of the Koran, especially through his 2010 organizing of an event called "burn a Koran day". In 2013, Jones was arrested while transporting almost 3,000 copies of kerosene-soaked copies of the Koran, en route to a private site where Jones planned to carry out a mass-incineration of the Islamic holy text.

Jones had been involved in the controversial, cultic international ministry Maranatha, some of whose leaders (including longtime Charisma editor J. Lee Grady) went on to serve as apostles in the International Coalition of Apostles, possibly the biggest group of apostles in the emerging New Apostolic Reformation.

In a September 14, 2011 Talk To Action story I demonstrated that NAR doctrine holds that the burning of books, religious artifacts, and art is a necessary practice for spreading the faith. I wrote,

"Top NAR leaders, including C. Peter Wagner, Cindy Jacobs, Ed Silvoso and, Chuck Pierce, have repeatedly emphasized in their writings the need for believers to destroy or neutralize, by burning, smashing, or flushing down toilets, objects deemed to be unholy, including profane books and "idolatrous" religious texts (such as Books of Mormon), religious relics (such as statues of Catholic saints, the Buddha, or Hindu gods), and native art (such as African masks, Hopi Indian Kachina dolls, and totem poles.) According to New Apostolic Reformation doctrine, objects to be destroyed include those associated with Mormonism, Islam, Jehovah's Witnesses, Hinduism, eastern religions, Christian Science, native religions, and Baha'i."

My story included footage, from a 2008 church rally, that shows NAR prophet and apostle Cindy Jacobs calling upon believers to gather up so-called "witchcraft items" and bring them back to the church to be incinerated. During the same week-long event, Jacobs also conducted a mass-exorcism, to drive out spirits of homosexuality, bisexuality, and "perversion".

