What is key to understand about the insurgent religious tradition espoused by at least three out of four of Sarah Palin's Alaska churches is that, first, it was denounced by the Assemblies of God, as a heresy and unbiblical, both in 1949 and again in 2000.

The New Apostolic Reformation movement considers itself to be the only valid religious belief system on Earth. Adherents not only of non-Christian religious beliefs,...