In a keynote speech laden with biblical references and patriotic fervor, Secretary of Warfare Pete Hegseth addressed the Nationwide Spiritual Broadcasters’ (NRB) Freedom 250 Celebration by drawing a direct line from the Bible to the founding of the USA.
Billed because the headline speaker for the NRB 2026 Worldwide Christian Media Conference on the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Conference Middle in Nashville, Tennessee, Hegseth, 45, started his handle by crediting God and praising President Donald Trump as “a fierce defender of Christians and other people of religion.” He highlighted administration actions like rescinding a so-called gender-affirming care steerage, ending taxpayer-funded abortions in sure contexts, and supporting spiritual liberty.
Hegseth famous that ideas like particular person dignity, pure rights, restricted authorities and spiritual freedom stem from Christianity — not secular or collectivist ideologies. Quoting John Adams, he warned that the U.S. Structure fits solely a “ethical and spiritual individuals,” and invoked George Washington’s faith-driven management, together with the 1775 institution of the Chaplain Corps.
“You see, with out an inner compass, we want the leviathan of huge authorities,” he added. “As we have fun our nation’s 250th 12 months, it is necessary to know that the very cloth of our founding paperwork are woven into the threads of Christian and biblical rules.”
Hegseth pointed to what he referred to as a “direct by means of line from the Previous and New Testaments … to the event of Western civilization and the USA of America,” and denounced opposition to the Gospel message by what he termed the “godless left.”
“Historic and godless societies considered the person as subordinate to the state or the collective. The godless left as we speak nonetheless sees it that method,” he stated. “However the Christian perception that each individual is created within the picture of God established a brand new understanding of humanity. It was not a declaration of worldly financial fairness or social justice, however a profound recognition of the transcendent inherent dignity of each particular person.”
“From this core precept,” he added, “come particular person liberty and pure rights.“
Turning to the army, Hegseth celebrated reforms beneath Trump: month-to-month Christian prayer providers on the Pentagon, revitalizing the Chaplain Corps, and purging what he referred to as “godless and divisive DEI” and “gender-bending fairness.”
“Our nation is celebrating 1776 this 12 months and rightfully so. However after all, on the Warfare Division, we’re within the 1775 enterprise,” he stated. “That is the place we picked up the rifles to defend these concepts, but it surely’s additionally once we went to Bended Knee with the founding of our chapel. To serve the religious wants of the pressure, Washington acknowledged that religion gives consolation, steerage and resilience within the face of hardship and hazard.”
He contrasted this with prior steerage on gender ideology from earlier administrations, declaring, “we practice our troops, we not trans our troops,” and affirmed, “We’re one army, one preventing pressure, one nation beneath God. We’re not ‘in woke we belief,’ we’re ‘in God we belief.’”
Hegseth urged Christian communicators, together with broadcasters, podcasters and influencers, to withstand efforts to silence biblical views on life, borders, gender and tradition. He insisted such stances are “not political, it is biblical,” and proclaimed, “Christ is King. He died for our sins. … He’ll come once more in glory. Amen.”
Hegseth concluded by calling for daring, virtuous citizenship rooted in religion, not authorities energy, and invoked Psalm 18: “The Lord is on my aspect. I can’t worry.”
Commissioned as an infantry officer within the U.S. Military Nationwide Guard after graduating from Princeton College in 2003, Hegseth served in quite a few active-duty deployments throughout his time in service, together with operations in Guantanamo Bay, Iraq and Afghanistan. Hegseth additionally served in a number of workers positions within the Nationwide Guard.
Along with incomes two Bronze Star Medals, the Joint Commendation Medal, two Military Commendation Medals, the Fight Infantryman Badge (CIB) and the Knowledgeable Infantryman Badge (EIB), Hegseth has authored 5 books, together with the New York Instances’ 2024 bestseller The Warfare on Warriors.
He’s additionally stirred controversy over his hyperlinks to Idaho pastor and theologian Douglas Wilson. Final 12 months, Hegseth attended Wilson’s church plant in Washington, D.C., alongside his spouse and kids, which gave the impression to be an endorsement of Wilson’s outspoken Christian nationalist views that embrace advocating for a theocratic U.S., repealing girls’s suffrage and criminalizing homosexuality.
In a keynote speech laden with biblical references and patriotic fervor, Secretary of Warfare Pete Hegseth addressed the Nationwide Spiritual Broadcasters’ (NRB) Freedom 250 Celebration by drawing a direct line from the Bible to the founding of the USA.
Billed because the headline speaker for the NRB 2026 Worldwide Christian Media Conference on the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Conference Middle in Nashville, Tennessee, Hegseth, 45, started his handle by crediting God and praising President Donald Trump as “a fierce defender of Christians and other people of religion.” He highlighted administration actions like rescinding a so-called gender-affirming care steerage, ending taxpayer-funded abortions in sure contexts, and supporting spiritual liberty.
Hegseth famous that ideas like particular person dignity, pure rights, restricted authorities and spiritual freedom stem from Christianity — not secular or collectivist ideologies. Quoting John Adams, he warned that the U.S. Structure fits solely a “ethical and spiritual individuals,” and invoked George Washington’s faith-driven management, together with the 1775 institution of the Chaplain Corps.
“You see, with out an inner compass, we want the leviathan of huge authorities,” he added. “As we have fun our nation’s 250th 12 months, it is necessary to know that the very cloth of our founding paperwork are woven into the threads of Christian and biblical rules.”
Hegseth pointed to what he referred to as a “direct by means of line from the Previous and New Testaments … to the event of Western civilization and the USA of America,” and denounced opposition to the Gospel message by what he termed the “godless left.”
“Historic and godless societies considered the person as subordinate to the state or the collective. The godless left as we speak nonetheless sees it that method,” he stated. “However the Christian perception that each individual is created within the picture of God established a brand new understanding of humanity. It was not a declaration of worldly financial fairness or social justice, however a profound recognition of the transcendent inherent dignity of each particular person.”
“From this core precept,” he added, “come particular person liberty and pure rights.“
Turning to the army, Hegseth celebrated reforms beneath Trump: month-to-month Christian prayer providers on the Pentagon, revitalizing the Chaplain Corps, and purging what he referred to as “godless and divisive DEI” and “gender-bending fairness.”
“Our nation is celebrating 1776 this 12 months and rightfully so. However after all, on the Warfare Division, we’re within the 1775 enterprise,” he stated. “That is the place we picked up the rifles to defend these concepts, but it surely’s additionally once we went to Bended Knee with the founding of our chapel. To serve the religious wants of the pressure, Washington acknowledged that religion gives consolation, steerage and resilience within the face of hardship and hazard.”
He contrasted this with prior steerage on gender ideology from earlier administrations, declaring, “we practice our troops, we not trans our troops,” and affirmed, “We’re one army, one preventing pressure, one nation beneath God. We’re not ‘in woke we belief,’ we’re ‘in God we belief.’”
Hegseth urged Christian communicators, together with broadcasters, podcasters and influencers, to withstand efforts to silence biblical views on life, borders, gender and tradition. He insisted such stances are “not political, it is biblical,” and proclaimed, “Christ is King. He died for our sins. … He’ll come once more in glory. Amen.”
Hegseth concluded by calling for daring, virtuous citizenship rooted in religion, not authorities energy, and invoked Psalm 18: “The Lord is on my aspect. I can’t worry.”
Commissioned as an infantry officer within the U.S. Military Nationwide Guard after graduating from Princeton College in 2003, Hegseth served in quite a few active-duty deployments throughout his time in service, together with operations in Guantanamo Bay, Iraq and Afghanistan. Hegseth additionally served in a number of workers positions within the Nationwide Guard.
Along with incomes two Bronze Star Medals, the Joint Commendation Medal, two Military Commendation Medals, the Fight Infantryman Badge (CIB) and the Knowledgeable Infantryman Badge (EIB), Hegseth has authored 5 books, together with the New York Instances’ 2024 bestseller The Warfare on Warriors.
He’s additionally stirred controversy over his hyperlinks to Idaho pastor and theologian Douglas Wilson. Final 12 months, Hegseth attended Wilson’s church plant in Washington, D.C., alongside his spouse and kids, which gave the impression to be an endorsement of Wilson’s outspoken Christian nationalist views that embrace advocating for a theocratic U.S., repealing girls’s suffrage and criminalizing homosexuality.
In a keynote speech laden with biblical references and patriotic fervor, Secretary of Warfare Pete Hegseth addressed the Nationwide Spiritual Broadcasters’ (NRB) Freedom 250 Celebration by drawing a direct line from the Bible to the founding of the USA.
Billed because the headline speaker for the NRB 2026 Worldwide Christian Media Conference on the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Conference Middle in Nashville, Tennessee, Hegseth, 45, started his handle by crediting God and praising President Donald Trump as “a fierce defender of Christians and other people of religion.” He highlighted administration actions like rescinding a so-called gender-affirming care steerage, ending taxpayer-funded abortions in sure contexts, and supporting spiritual liberty.
Hegseth famous that ideas like particular person dignity, pure rights, restricted authorities and spiritual freedom stem from Christianity — not secular or collectivist ideologies. Quoting John Adams, he warned that the U.S. Structure fits solely a “ethical and spiritual individuals,” and invoked George Washington’s faith-driven management, together with the 1775 institution of the Chaplain Corps.
“You see, with out an inner compass, we want the leviathan of huge authorities,” he added. “As we have fun our nation’s 250th 12 months, it is necessary to know that the very cloth of our founding paperwork are woven into the threads of Christian and biblical rules.”
Hegseth pointed to what he referred to as a “direct by means of line from the Previous and New Testaments … to the event of Western civilization and the USA of America,” and denounced opposition to the Gospel message by what he termed the “godless left.”
“Historic and godless societies considered the person as subordinate to the state or the collective. The godless left as we speak nonetheless sees it that method,” he stated. “However the Christian perception that each individual is created within the picture of God established a brand new understanding of humanity. It was not a declaration of worldly financial fairness or social justice, however a profound recognition of the transcendent inherent dignity of each particular person.”
“From this core precept,” he added, “come particular person liberty and pure rights.“
Turning to the army, Hegseth celebrated reforms beneath Trump: month-to-month Christian prayer providers on the Pentagon, revitalizing the Chaplain Corps, and purging what he referred to as “godless and divisive DEI” and “gender-bending fairness.”
“Our nation is celebrating 1776 this 12 months and rightfully so. However after all, on the Warfare Division, we’re within the 1775 enterprise,” he stated. “That is the place we picked up the rifles to defend these concepts, but it surely’s additionally once we went to Bended Knee with the founding of our chapel. To serve the religious wants of the pressure, Washington acknowledged that religion gives consolation, steerage and resilience within the face of hardship and hazard.”
He contrasted this with prior steerage on gender ideology from earlier administrations, declaring, “we practice our troops, we not trans our troops,” and affirmed, “We’re one army, one preventing pressure, one nation beneath God. We’re not ‘in woke we belief,’ we’re ‘in God we belief.’”
Hegseth urged Christian communicators, together with broadcasters, podcasters and influencers, to withstand efforts to silence biblical views on life, borders, gender and tradition. He insisted such stances are “not political, it is biblical,” and proclaimed, “Christ is King. He died for our sins. … He’ll come once more in glory. Amen.”
Hegseth concluded by calling for daring, virtuous citizenship rooted in religion, not authorities energy, and invoked Psalm 18: “The Lord is on my aspect. I can’t worry.”
Commissioned as an infantry officer within the U.S. Military Nationwide Guard after graduating from Princeton College in 2003, Hegseth served in quite a few active-duty deployments throughout his time in service, together with operations in Guantanamo Bay, Iraq and Afghanistan. Hegseth additionally served in a number of workers positions within the Nationwide Guard.
Along with incomes two Bronze Star Medals, the Joint Commendation Medal, two Military Commendation Medals, the Fight Infantryman Badge (CIB) and the Knowledgeable Infantryman Badge (EIB), Hegseth has authored 5 books, together with the New York Instances’ 2024 bestseller The Warfare on Warriors.
He’s additionally stirred controversy over his hyperlinks to Idaho pastor and theologian Douglas Wilson. Final 12 months, Hegseth attended Wilson’s church plant in Washington, D.C., alongside his spouse and kids, which gave the impression to be an endorsement of Wilson’s outspoken Christian nationalist views that embrace advocating for a theocratic U.S., repealing girls’s suffrage and criminalizing homosexuality.
In a keynote speech laden with biblical references and patriotic fervor, Secretary of Warfare Pete Hegseth addressed the Nationwide Spiritual Broadcasters’ (NRB) Freedom 250 Celebration by drawing a direct line from the Bible to the founding of the USA.
Billed because the headline speaker for the NRB 2026 Worldwide Christian Media Conference on the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Conference Middle in Nashville, Tennessee, Hegseth, 45, started his handle by crediting God and praising President Donald Trump as “a fierce defender of Christians and other people of religion.” He highlighted administration actions like rescinding a so-called gender-affirming care steerage, ending taxpayer-funded abortions in sure contexts, and supporting spiritual liberty.
Hegseth famous that ideas like particular person dignity, pure rights, restricted authorities and spiritual freedom stem from Christianity — not secular or collectivist ideologies. Quoting John Adams, he warned that the U.S. Structure fits solely a “ethical and spiritual individuals,” and invoked George Washington’s faith-driven management, together with the 1775 institution of the Chaplain Corps.
“You see, with out an inner compass, we want the leviathan of huge authorities,” he added. “As we have fun our nation’s 250th 12 months, it is necessary to know that the very cloth of our founding paperwork are woven into the threads of Christian and biblical rules.”
Hegseth pointed to what he referred to as a “direct by means of line from the Previous and New Testaments … to the event of Western civilization and the USA of America,” and denounced opposition to the Gospel message by what he termed the “godless left.”
“Historic and godless societies considered the person as subordinate to the state or the collective. The godless left as we speak nonetheless sees it that method,” he stated. “However the Christian perception that each individual is created within the picture of God established a brand new understanding of humanity. It was not a declaration of worldly financial fairness or social justice, however a profound recognition of the transcendent inherent dignity of each particular person.”
“From this core precept,” he added, “come particular person liberty and pure rights.“
Turning to the army, Hegseth celebrated reforms beneath Trump: month-to-month Christian prayer providers on the Pentagon, revitalizing the Chaplain Corps, and purging what he referred to as “godless and divisive DEI” and “gender-bending fairness.”
“Our nation is celebrating 1776 this 12 months and rightfully so. However after all, on the Warfare Division, we’re within the 1775 enterprise,” he stated. “That is the place we picked up the rifles to defend these concepts, but it surely’s additionally once we went to Bended Knee with the founding of our chapel. To serve the religious wants of the pressure, Washington acknowledged that religion gives consolation, steerage and resilience within the face of hardship and hazard.”
He contrasted this with prior steerage on gender ideology from earlier administrations, declaring, “we practice our troops, we not trans our troops,” and affirmed, “We’re one army, one preventing pressure, one nation beneath God. We’re not ‘in woke we belief,’ we’re ‘in God we belief.’”
Hegseth urged Christian communicators, together with broadcasters, podcasters and influencers, to withstand efforts to silence biblical views on life, borders, gender and tradition. He insisted such stances are “not political, it is biblical,” and proclaimed, “Christ is King. He died for our sins. … He’ll come once more in glory. Amen.”
Hegseth concluded by calling for daring, virtuous citizenship rooted in religion, not authorities energy, and invoked Psalm 18: “The Lord is on my aspect. I can’t worry.”
Commissioned as an infantry officer within the U.S. Military Nationwide Guard after graduating from Princeton College in 2003, Hegseth served in quite a few active-duty deployments throughout his time in service, together with operations in Guantanamo Bay, Iraq and Afghanistan. Hegseth additionally served in a number of workers positions within the Nationwide Guard.
Along with incomes two Bronze Star Medals, the Joint Commendation Medal, two Military Commendation Medals, the Fight Infantryman Badge (CIB) and the Knowledgeable Infantryman Badge (EIB), Hegseth has authored 5 books, together with the New York Instances’ 2024 bestseller The Warfare on Warriors.
He’s additionally stirred controversy over his hyperlinks to Idaho pastor and theologian Douglas Wilson. Final 12 months, Hegseth attended Wilson’s church plant in Washington, D.C., alongside his spouse and kids, which gave the impression to be an endorsement of Wilson’s outspoken Christian nationalist views that embrace advocating for a theocratic U.S., repealing girls’s suffrage and criminalizing homosexuality.
