Welcome to the Alisa Childers podcast where we equip Christians to identify the core beliefs of historic Christianity

discern its counterfeits and proclaim the gospel with clarity, kindness, and truth.

And if you've been following this podcast, you know we've been talking quite a bit

about the book Shepherds for sale by Megan Basham.

We had her on the podcast a couple weeks ago.

And then last week I did a midweek podcast that expressed some further thoughts in response to some of the pushback that Megan has received over her book.

Of course, I expected a ton of pushback.

There is no shortage of attacks, Lander, and then there are some more thoughtful critiques where people are just

thoughtfully saying, hey, I disagree with this and I disagree with that. And it can be a lot to try to

parse through and follow. So my friend Frank Turick and I did a live stream with

Megan and just allowed her to respond to some of the more popular criticisms of

her book and I decided that I would just publish that to the feed for this week

because I think it'll just be very important for you as you decide you know what

you think about all these things and again I'll just reiterate what we did on the

live stream and then what I said in the midweek podcast I just can't strongly encourage you

enough to decide for yourself read the book follow the foot, decide what you think and don't let the

cacophony of voices distract you from the main claims that she's making which

is that there have been secular, radical secular

progressives that have provided funding and funneled that funding into evangelical institutions

with the sole purpose and mind of switching the church's stances on things like

LGBTQ, climate change, immigration, what else, all sorts of things. So if you're like me and over the past five years you've seen

some very confusing messages coming from evangelical leaders that you otherwise

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