Edward Ray is listed by the 2024 Trump campaign as an “elder” in Polk, County, Iowa…
…but there is no online record of anyone named Edward or Ed Ray taking any leadership role in any church or other religious organization anywhere in Iowa.
Donald Trump says that the United States is a Christian nation. What will that mean in practice, if Trump gains the power of the Presidency?
A new book on the subject avoids abstract political philosophy and theology. Instead, the pages of Donald Trump’s Army of God: Christian Nationalism in the Iowa Faith Leader Coalition are occupied with a detailed examination of the actual Christian Nationalists who propelled Donald Trump to victory in the Iowa caucuses of 2024, enabling him to seize the Republican Party presidential nomination.
What emerges is a case study in magical thinking, an obsession with demons, fantasies of sacred torture and holy wars, and a movement filled with people who believe that they are capable of delivering a new generation of Christian prophecies that carry equal weight to anything found in the Bible.
This is a story that America cannot afford to ignore.
The Iowa Faith Leader Coalition is a radical political organization that violates the law
Let’s learn more about the radical Christian Nationalists who are members of the Iowa Faith Leader Coalition.