Two trips to Iraq with the 101st Airborne taught Justin McLane things no seminary classroom ever could. He came home carrying the weight of what he had seen, and spent years searching for something solid enough to hold it. That search eventually led him to a faith he had spent 28 years actively rejecting — and the encounter changed everything.
Today he speaks from that intersection: the foxhole and the pulpit, the family estrangement and the reconciliation, the political fracture and the conviction that the Church is still the answer. His message is not theoretical. He knows what it costs to change your mind in a world that punishes you for it, and he knows how to speak that truth to audiences who are living it.
His 2026 book, God Is Personal: Finding the Father in a Crowded World, draws directly from that journey. It is not a theological treatise. It is a pastor's honest reckoning with what it means to know God when the world, and sometimes your own family, is working against it.
Justin McLane spent 28 years as a practicing pagan before encountering Jesus Christ in 2022. Raised in an anti-Christian household, he moved through Wicca, Druidism, and every tradition that promised meaning, and found each one wanting.
Two tours in Iraq with the 101st Airborne Division gave Justin a soldier's understanding of fear and loss. When his conversion came, it was not a quiet, private thing. It cost him his closest family relationships, and he paid that price without flinching.
He led a growing church in eastern Tennessee and speaks nationally on convictional resilience: the hard-won ability to stand firm under cultural, familial, and political pressure without losing your identity.
For men and women who know the right answers but still feel far from God. For those who feel beyond salvation. Join the company to help others find redemption.
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