Megan Basham talks about her book "Shepherds for Sale"
Conversations That Matter
Jon Harris
4.3 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Megan Basham is a journalist and cultural critic known for her work in various media outlets. She has contributed to publications such as World Magazine, where she served as the entertainment editor, and has written extensively on topics related to film, television, and popular culture. Basham's insights often focused on the intersection of media and society, offering thoughtful commentary and analysis.
Now Basham focusses on compromise in evangelical institutions, especially when directed by Leftist actors intent on pushing churches to the Left. Her journalistic work at the Daily Wire as well as her latest book "Shepherd's for Sale" contribute to an ongoing conversation about the influence of social justice ideology in evangelical institutions.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone welcome once again to the conversations that matter |
| 0:16.0 | podcast I'm your host John Harris and many of you have reached out to me |
| 0:20.7 | really now over the last probably year and a half and you've said you need |
| 0:25.0 | to have Megan Basham on the podcast. |
| 0:26.7 | She's doing some great work and some of you have asked me have I heard of Megan Basham. |
| 0:30.2 | You've sent me links and the answer to that is yes I have heard of Megan |
| 0:33.4 | Basham in fact I really appreciate Megan Basham I've read her a new book |
| 0:38.0 | Shepherds for sale and she is joining me now in the podcast to talk about the book. |
| 0:43.3 | Welcome, Megan. |
| 0:45.0 | I know it does seem incredible that I haven't been here because offline, hopefully I'm not |
| 0:50.0 | like associating you with nefarious people, but we communicate a lot offline. |
| 0:54.7 | Yes, well you said it so but you mentioned it in the book as well that there were you know it's |
| 1:01.2 | not just me there are some other folks that |
| 1:03.2 | have been tracking some of the compromise in evangelicalism and let me just say |
| 1:09.7 | this before we get to any of the books. I want to talk about the book, |
| 1:13.2 | but if people want to follow you at Megan Basham, |
| 1:16.4 | you work for the daily wire, |
| 1:18.2 | so you have this institutional, I think credibility |
| 1:20.5 | you bring to this, but they can follow your work at |
| 1:24.0 | Morning Wire as well which by the way that's like one of the biggest |
| 1:28.0 | podcasts now in conservative media right? Yeah I think we're in the top 10 and we're in the top 10 of I know Apple and Spotify's general news categories. |
| 1:37.4 | So like if you would you'll see NPR, New York Times and us. |
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