The 2024 Trump campaign celebrates the endorsement of James Anderson, listing him as a pastor in Woodbury County, Iowa.
It is difficult, however, to tell exactly who this Pastor James Anderson in the Iowa Faith Leader Coalition is.
There is no online record of any pastor named James Anderson at any church in Woodbury County, Iowa.
There is a man named James Anderson who, in 2023, gave a series of lectures at New Freedom Church in Sioux City, Iowa. The church doesn’t describe Anderson as a pastor, though. They just call him a “Key Speaker”.
The pastor of the New Freedom Church is named Kevin.
So why does Donald Trump’s presidential campaign call James Anderson a pastor? Is there another man named James Anderson in Sioux City who is an actual pastor?
What is Christian Nationalism all about?
We need to look past the hype and theoretical debates. The new book Donald Trump’s Army Of God: Christian Nationalism in the Iowa Faith Leader Coalition investigates what Christian Nationalism looks like in practice. The authors detail the identities, beliefs, and activities of Donald Trump’s Christian Nationalist network.
Their work reveals the extremism that enabled Trump to seize the Republican nomination in the Iowa caucuses, and is clearing the ground for him to regain the White House in November 2024.
The Iowa Faith Leader Coalition is a radical political organization that violates American law
Let’s learn more about the extremist Christian Nationalists who are members of Donald Trump’s Iowa Faith Leader Coalition.