USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins sent Easter email to staff touting ‘Jesus’ and ‘God’

The email was the subject of a thread on the social media site Reddit, where one commentator wrote, “I am a fed and a Christian and fully offended by this crap!!! It makes me want to puke how they use Christ as an excuse to behave so badly.”

Another commentator wrote: “Christ is Risen indeed. But, that’s as a Lutheran that I say that.”

“It’s disgraceful to advocate religion as a civil servant,” that commentator wrote. “My faith guides my life, it is immaterial for the service I provide as a government employee and I would be doing a disservice to the Warfigthers who believe differently than me if I were to actively advocate for Christianity.

Rollins, in an interview with the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association’s Decision magazine published in June 2025, said, “God’s hand has been the driving force in everything I’ve ever done. God has been, for as long as I can remember, such a massive part of everything, even in times when I didn’t really want to.”

The interview was headlined: “QA with Brooke Rollins: Fighting for the Soul of America: USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins builds policy on Biblical teaching.”

“Through all the years — as an agricultural major at Texas AM and then earning a law degree at the University of Texas, I really thought I’d end up at seminary and be a youth minister, that’s where my heart was,” Rollins said in the interview.

In the same interview, Rollins talked about her participation in studying the Bible with other Cabinet members.

Asked if there was a passage from the Bible that she often thinks about, Rollins replied, “Right now, the one that’s really speaking to me is Romans 13:12, putting on the armor of light.”

“And I feel that very sincerely. There is just a lot of darkness — not with this White House or my current boss, President Trump, or our Cabinet, but with government in general, and with the other side fighting for the soul of America,” she said.

On Monday, President Donald Trump told reporters that he believed God supports the U.S. against Iran, which is predominantly Shiite Muslim.

“I do, because God is good,” Trump said at the White House in response to a reporter’s question. “And God wants to see people taken care of.”

At the same briefing, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had compared the rescue of a downed U.S. airman in Iran to the story of Jesus’s resurrection.

“You see, shot down on a Friday, Good Friday; hidden in a cave, a crevice, all of Saturday; and rescued on Sunday,” Hegseth said. “Flown out of Iran as the sun was rising on Easter Sunday, a pilot reborn.”

On Easter Sunday, Trump, in a Truth Social post, had warned Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz or “you’ll be living in Hell — JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah.”

Allah is the Arabic name for God in Islam.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt opened a briefing on March 30 by telling reporters, “Could you hear our ‘amen’ in there?, We just had a little loud prayer as a team.”

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