The phrase was a rallying cry for Christian Crusaders against Muslims in medieval times] Hegseth’s church, Pilgrim Hill Reformed Fellowship outside Nashville, Tennessee, is a member of CREC, according to Tennessee Lookout, which has congregations in nearly all 50 states and several foreign countries.
The pastor of an evangelical church with ties to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth once claimed slavery promoted “affection between the races” in the South.
Pastor Douglas Wilson, of the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches, made the statements in his 1996 book Southern Slavery: As It Was.
The Independent has also reached out to representatives for Hegseth for comment about Wilson’s work, and the Defense Secretary’s association to his church.
“Slavery as it existed in the South was not an adversarial relationship with pervasive racial animosity,” Wilson wrote in his book.
