There isn’t even any record of Raven Stuefen expressing a desire to become a minister.

What is on the record is this: In 2021, Raven Stuefen wrote an article a short-lived student publication at Mount Mercy University in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. IN that article, she explained that she had recently enrolled in Mount Mercy, even though she is in her 50s, with the goal of obtaining a degree in journalism. She wrote that before enrolling, she needed to quit her job “a factory worker” because of an illness. Prior to that, she said, her working life had consisted of “30 years of customer service and retail experience”.

Nowhere in this article did she write of any experience or interest in working as a religious professional.

This article was written on September 16, 2021. That’s just two and a half years ago.

It doesn’t seem plausible that Raven Stuefen would, in the last two and a half years, have quit her journalism studies, finished a degree in theology instead, and obtained a job as a minister. The fact that there’s no mention anywhere online of any association of Raven Stuefen with religion, except in her inclusion in the Trump campaign’s Iowa Faith Leader Coalition, makes the idea that she is actually a minister hard to believe.

Then there’s the content of Raven Stuefen’s TikTok channel, which includes short clips with messages such as, “Have you ever met someone for the first time, and wanted to buy them a toaster for their bathtub?” It’s not the sort of content that fits with the image of a Christian minister. That message was posted in January 2023.

Raven Stuefen is an ardent fan of Donald Trump, as shown in her 2022 TikTok clip with the words: “Trump 2024! MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!! Hilary sucks!… But not like Monica!”

It seems that Stuefen had forgotten that Hillary Clinton isn’t running for President in 2024.

None of this material references religion at all.

The obvious question is how Raven Stuefen became a member of Donald Trump’s Iowa Faith Leader Coalition, when she clearly isn’t a faith leader of any kind.

Could anyone go to a Trump rally in Iowa and just sign a piece of paper declaring themselves to be a religious leader, and be admitted to the Iowa Faith Leader Coalition, no questions asked?

If that’s the case, it’s no wonder Donald Trump gained over 300 “faith leaders” so quickly. As is often the case with Trump’s projects, the dramatic boasts he made about his Iowa Faith Leader Coalition are a thin veneer that barely conceals a sloppy hodge podge of exaggeration and outright lies.