Hegseth Brings Christian Nationalist to Pentagon to Pray for Christian Revival
Doug Wilson's sermon cast the military as the unlikely spark for a Christian national reformation. Not everyone in the building was comfortable with that.
Doug Wilson arrived at the Pentagon on Tuesday with a message for the world’s most powerful military: America is God’s chosen nation, and the men and women in uniform may be the unlikely instruments of its Christian reformation.
Wilson, the controversial Idaho pastor who leads Christ Church and has called for reshaping the United States into a nation governed by Biblical law, delivered a sermon at the Defense Department’s monthly worship service in the Pentagon’s main auditorium, an event organized by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
Hegseth didn’t hear a word of it.
The defense secretary arrived late, held up, he said, by meetings at the White House. But he rushed to the stage when Wilson finished, embraced the pastor, and thanked him for his “mentorship.”
Hegseth said he’d catch the sermon on tape. He’d missed hearing Wilson cast his Pentagon audience as soldiers in a spiritual battle, invok…
