As Spokane City Council considers denouncing Mayor Woodward for her participation in a Christian nationalist concert, the worship pastor responsible is casting himself as a martyr and fundraising off the proposal.
The mayor has spent 3 weeks quietly trying to distance herself from Matt Shea and other Christian nationalists. Shea, his allies and congregants are helping her anyway.
The Inland Northwest is a promised land to some of the movement’s most devoted theorists, and prime real estate for those envisioning a Biblical nation-state.
