Overview
- At a recent Pentagon briefing, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth closed by quoting Psalm 144 and ended his remarks with “Amen.”
- Reporters detail monthly worship services tied to Hegseth and note his public appeals for Americans to embrace a specific evangelical expression of Christianity.
- Some members of Congress are calling for a Department of Defense investigation into officers allegedly invoking the Bible in pursuit of the Iran war.
- Military promotional materials reportedly overlay Bible verses on imagery of weapons and service members, prompting questions about sectarian recruiting.
- Hegseth’s record features years of combative anti-Iran rhetoric, praise for the 2020 killing of Qasem Soleimani, and a 2020 book casting Iran as part of an existential Islamist threat.