{"id":87161,"date":"2026-10-02T07:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T11:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=87161"},"modified":"2026-10-02T07:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T11:42:09","slug":"defense-secretary-launches-office-of-religious-affairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/defense-secretary-launches-office-of-religious-affairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Defense Secretary Launches Office Of Religious Affairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From AP:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/1e089a9\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/5687x3791+0+0\/resize\/320x213!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2Fe0%2Ff5%2F75debc4979ed34005ac784953e02%2F823ad57b819f46b8947a70910554835c\" alt=\"Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth gives a State of the Force address at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2026 in Quantico, Va. (Alex Wong\/Pool Photo via AP)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is launching an office of religious affairs, the latest of his faith-related reforms at the Pentagon.\u00a0He announced <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/hegseth-pentagon-generals-job-cuts-67a20b026ee858895c7e5ff7fadbc029\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">in a speech<\/a><\/span> Wednesday that the office will help offer \u201cfirst-class religious support\u201d and will report directly to him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur department is, you might say, putting on the full armor of God, because while we wage physical war, we all know the real battle is spiritual,\u201d he said.\u00a0Hegseth has infused his <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/pete-hegseth-crec-church-christian-nationalism-wilson-e71c3ea072fa959b5bee09a4d2093f1a\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">evangelical Christianity<\/a><\/span> into his <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/pete-hegseth-pentagon-christian-nationalism-iran-war-f246bca60f2927336b5d06b2c9daee80\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">leadership of the Pentagon<\/a><\/span>, hosting <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/pete-hegseth-pentagon-christian-worship-service-30db48b6ceb8af5e6172fb3ba2eafaa0\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">Christian worship services<\/a><\/span> for employees and often speaking of the United States as a Christian nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From AP: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is launching an office of religious affairs, the latest of his faith-related reforms at.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-87161","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87162,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87161\/revisions\/87162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}