The Justice Briefing with Dr. Jemar Tisby
Oct 2, 2026 · 59 min · 16 segments
In a rare guest interview, Dr. Jemar Tisby sits down with Dr. Matthew D. Taylor, author of the new book Defying Tyrants: Following Jesus in a World of Christian Antichrists. They discuss Christian…
Jemar TisbyHost
But before we do, and by way of entering into that discussion, I want to talk about the latest news with Pete Hegseth.
So yesterday, Hegseth gave what I believe they are now calling the State of the Force or State of the Forces.
And I'll just note, too, there have been reports that it was a hand-selected audience.
So they were purposely trying to bypass— certain elements of the general corps because he then was very critical of a lot of the generals in order to get some of the younger enlisted folks who would be much more gung-ho about this stuff.
He's like a peacock version of General Patton, right? Big American flag behind him and digital screen.
But in the midst of that, not only did he make multiple egregious appeals to Christian nationalism and to the Bible.
But he also did announce the formation of this Office of Religious Affairs that would be, as far as from what he said, it sounds like directly under his command, reports directly to him, and will be a reorganization of the Chaplain Corps, but also a more instilling these religious narratives in our military.
And Whatever your feelings are about Christianity and how important Christianity is to individual lives or maybe spirituality of people in the military, this is an extremely dangerous thing that Pete Hegseth is doing.
Because in a liberal democracy, in a pluralistic democracy as diverse as the United States, the military is supposed to represent and be drawn from everyone.
Their purpose is to defend the United States of America and all Americans.
And this is an ideological consolidation that Hegseth is doing of the military, not only under white supremacy, not only under male supremacy, but also under Christian supremacy.
And Hegseth is... maybe the most dangerous cabinet secretary in the Trump administration.
It's very easy to look at the things he says, the way he says them and say, he's an idiot.
But before we do, and by way of entering into that discussion, I want to talk about the latest news with Pete Hegseth.
So yesterday, Hegseth gave what I believe they are now calling the State of the Force or State of the Forces.
And I'll just note, too, there have been reports that it was a hand-selected audience.
So they were purposely trying to bypass— certain elements of the general corps because he then was very critical of a lot of the generals in order to get some of the younger enlisted folks who would be much more gung-ho about this stuff.
He's like a peacock version of General Patton, right? Big American flag behind him and digital screen.
But in the midst of that, not only did he make multiple egregious appeals to Christian nationalism and to the Bible.
But he also did announce the formation of this Office of Religious Affairs that would be, as far as from what he said, it sounds like directly under his command, reports directly to him, and will be a reorganization of the Chaplain Corps, but also a more instilling these religious narratives in our military.
And Whatever your feelings are about Christianity and how important Christianity is to individual lives or maybe spirituality of people in the military, this is an extremely dangerous thing that Pete Hegseth is doing.
Because in a liberal democracy, in a pluralistic democracy as diverse as the United States, the military is supposed to represent and be drawn from everyone.
Their purpose is to defend the United States of America and all Americans.
And this is an ideological consolidation that Hegseth is doing of the military, not only under white supremacy, not only under male supremacy, but also under Christian supremacy.
And Hegseth is... maybe the most dangerous cabinet secretary in the Trump administration.
It's very easy to look at the things he says, the way he says them and say, he's an idiot.
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