Ortland laments that Megan didn't present her view of climate change and his view and actually begin a true dialogue.

But ironically, that's exactly what Ortland failed to do.

He says it would have been more productive if Megan had presented both sides and see exactly where they agree or disagree.

He says that would have been more productive.

He something about pots and kettles and calling them black. Introduction. So my friend Megan Basham's book,pherds for Sale, how evangelical leaders traded the

truth for a leftist agenda, has just dropped and the interwebs have gone up in a sheet of flame.

When I started writing this, the book was sitting at number 17 on the Amazon sales list,

and hopefully this article, this episode,

convinces another handful of folks to go out and buy their own copy now.

This isn't a full review, this is just a brief excursion into the initial fray caused by the book and as it happens tied to

Bashim's work in chapter one. Chapter one is on climate change and the ways

evangelical leaders have been suckered into that particular leftist agenda. ways evangelical who dropped a video earlier this week arguing that Basham had misrepresented him in

chapter one of her book when she critiqued a video he published a couple of years ago

about climate change. The Sitch. So Basham summarizes

Ortland's video beginning with his concern that many Christians,

tending to be politically conservative, have simply dismissed climate change

based on sociopolitical associations, specifically political

liberalism, without studying the issues carefully.

And Ortland says he thinks that's why most Christians aren't active in leading the

charge on something like climate change.

But Ortland cautions strongly against that since human-caused climate change, he argues, is the consensus of most scientists.

While Ortland says he just wants to have a conversation, and later in the video insists he doesn't mean to be depressing or cause panic,

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