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Logan M. Isaac (born Logan Mehl-Laituri in 1981) is an Iraq veteran, author, and activist who earned masters degrees in theology from Duke University and the University of St Andrews. For ten years he ran a nonprofit called Centurions Guild which he dissolved in 2018 to create Pew Pew HQ, a social enterprise promoting human dignity for Christian soldiers. He is an outspoken advocate for military personnel and communities, applying principles of social justice to critique the way Americans treat veterans in particular and military culture more broadly.

Early Life and Military Service
Isaac grew up in Southern California and contracted infantile bronchitis within a few months after being born. He describes in Reborn on the Fourth of July that his agnostic parents were persuaded to attend St James Anglican Church after a priest visited them in the hospital. They attended until Isaac was about five years old, when the family moved to another city within Orange County. Just before he was about to enter High School, Isaac's parents split up and he began shoplifting, for which he was arrested. The experience led him to attend church at Trinity United Presbyterian Church in Santa Ana, CA throughout his high school studies.

After he was accepted into a few colleges, Isaac learned about educational incentive programs offered by the military. Isaac enlisted in the United States Army shortly before graduating, eventually becoming a Fire Support Specialist. After his initial training, Isaac was assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, NC as a paratrooper. When the towers fell on September 11, 2001, he was in the dentist chair following a field training exercise.

Academic Works

 * “How Realistic are Christian Politics? A Case for Eschatological Realism,” Between Being & Time: From Ontology to Eschatology (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019)
 * “The Burden of Killing” The Encyclopedia of War: Social Science Perspectives (SAGE, 2017)
 * “Desensitization” The Encyclopedia of War: Social Science Perspectives (SAGE, 2017)
 * “Peace Church” The Encyclopedia of War: Social Science Perspectives (SAGE, 2017)
 * Reborn on the Fourth of July: The Challenge of Faith, Patriotism, & Conscience (InterVarsity Press, 2012)