God’s Army Is Hiring

This story originally appeared in The Stranger’s 2026 Queer Issue.On April 19, 2026, Russell Johnson, the founder and lead pastor of the right-wing megachurch Pursuit NW, took to Instagram, as he often does, to deliver two important messages to his congregation.He told them the church needed $52 million to purchase a building and parking lot, and that two luminaries in the Christian supremacist movement, Ross Johnston and Jay Koopman, would be joining as pastors.To those of us who watch t