Kendall Meyer is pastor at the St. Paul Lutheran Church and School in Fort Dodge, Iowa.

Kendall Meyer has declared that all marriages in the United States must obey harsh Christian religious rules about who can be married and how married couples must behave. Meyer signed a letter sent to the Iowa state legislature demanding that the legislators submit themselves to the power of Christian leaders.

The letter stated that Christian rules about marriage must be obeyed by everyone:

Because God is God of all, there is no structural difference between religious and civil marriage. The essence of marriage remains the same in both the religious and civil realms. (Col. 1:15-19) The acknowledgement of, and reference to, marriage in the laws of our state and nation does not create a second realm of marriage that is somehow divorced from the only definition determined by God.

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.