Josh Johanson is listed in Donald Trump’s Iowa Faith Leader Coalition as an “evangelist” in Emmet County, Iowa.
The only record of Johanson engaging in any acts of evangelicalism that might qualify him as a “faith leader” is from another county, when late last year Johanson delivered a couple of guest sermons at the Bethany Evangelical & Reformed Church in Ledyard, Iowa, which is in Kossuth County.
In Emmet County, the only public record to be found regarding Josh Johanson is of a statement he made to the Armstrong City Council about a desire he had to purchase some property on Golf Course Drive there. It seems there was some controversy about whether Johanson might want to build a gym on the land, though he denied he would do so. The council voted to delay selling the land, hoping that someone other than Johanson would buy it.
People talk a lot about Christian Nationalism in the abstract, but a new Donald Trump’s Army of God: Christian Nationalism in the Iowa Faith Leader Coalition, provides an analysis of Christian Nationalism that is grounded in what Christian Nationalists actually say and do.
Forget the theory and theology. This case study is based solely on information about the 317 members of the Iowa Faith Leader Coalition.
You wouldn’t expect Iowa to be the source of stories about Nazi propaganda, murder-suicide, terrorism, money laundering and business fraud, monsters and magic spells, faith healing and guns, ancient prophecies of eternal torture, and a growing Christian Nationalist hunger for global genocidal war. Defying expectations, that is just what the authors found.
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.