Pastor Doug Wilson wants America to become a Christian theocracy. And, eventually, a world fully converted to Christianity. He plans to get there “by peaceful means” such as preaching the gospel, he told CNN in a recent report .

Wilson, who leads Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho, does not shy away from the label Christian nationalist, he said. And his profile is getting bigger: his network of over a hundred churches now stretches from the Pacific Northwest to Washington, D.C., where he recently opened a new congregation. Pete Hegseth, the current Secretary of Defense, attends a Tennessee church that belongs to Wilson’s ministry.

As previous State of Faith newsletter writer Kelsey Dallas wrote , Christian nationalism “is a catch-all term for a complex web of intertwined beliefs. It refer

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