REPLAY | Churches: Beware of the 'After Party' Trojan Horse | Guest: Megan Basham

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🗓️ 6 June 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Allie was joined by Megan Basham, culture reporter for the Daily Wire, to discuss her investigation into the After Party, a curriculum written by Curtis Chang, David French, and Russell Moore, which is being pushed onto churches in an effort to bring Christians of different political backgrounds together. Megan shares how this curriculum not only fails at its objective but is funded by secular progressives: Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors. We discuss why Rockefeller’s interest in bankrolling Bible studies is a red flag, including the fact that among the other initiatives funded are organizations that are pro-LGBTQ and pro-abortion. What's in the After Party curriculum and what message is it really sending? We also look at the "AND Campaign" and how it is also funded by the Rockefellers. We explain how politics is a way to love our neighbor and why getting it right matters for the church. --- Timecodes: (01:12) What is The After Party? / Rockefeller funding (07:50) What are their motivations? (15:00) What's in the curriculum? (32:28) The AND Campaign / moral equivalence (42:53) X / Twitter exchange about abortion / politics in Christianity (49:20) Can Christians vote Democrat? Links: Megan Basham: "Follow the Money to The After Party" https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2024/01/follow-the-money-to-the-after-party --- Relevant Episodes: Ep 607 | John MacArthur, Hillsong Documentary & SBC Drama | Guest: Megan Basham https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-607-john-macarthur-hillsong-documentary-sbc-drama/id1359249098?i=1000558899144 Ep 920 | Russell Moore, David French & the Fake Threat of Christian Nationalism | Guest: John Cooper https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-920-russell-moore-david-french-the-fake-threat/id1359249098?i=1000638231068 Ep 508 | My Response to John Piper, Tim Keller & Big Eva https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-508-my-response-to-john-piper-tim-keller-big-eva/id1359249098?i=1000539092606 Share the Arrows 2026 is on October 10 in Dallas, Texas! Tickets are on sale now at: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://sharethearrows.com⁠⁠⁠Share the Arrows is sponsored by:A'del Natural Cosmetics: AdelNaturalCosmetics.comRange Leather: RangeLeather.com/ALLIEWe Heart Nutrition: WeHeartNutrition.comBuy Allie's book "Toxic Empathy: How Progressives Exploit Christian Compassion": ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.toxicempathy.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ---► Buy Allie's book, "You're Not Enough (& That's Okay): Escaping the Toxic Culture of Self-Love": https://alliebethstuckey.com/book► Subscribe to the podcast:iTunes: https://apple.co/2UVssnPSpotify: https://spoti.fi/2FwkXxj► Connect with Allie on Social Media: https://twitter.com/conservmillenhttps://www.instagram.com/alliebstuckey/https://facebook.com/allieBlazeTV/► Relatable merchandise – use promo code 'ALLIE10' for a discount: https://shop.blazemedia.com/collections/allie-stuckey

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0:00.0	A new curriculum called After Party is being pushed onto churches, promising to bring Christians of different political backgrounds together and back to the fundamentals that Jesus taught.
0:17.0	Unfortunately, this curriculum does not deliver on this promise and actually is funded by secular progressives.
0:25.4	Here today to uncover all of this and more is Megan Basham.
0:29.0	She has a reporter for The Daily Wire.
0:31.7	Fascinating conversation.
0:33.1	You are going to learn a lot from this.
0:35.1	I know I did.
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0:41.1	code Alley. Megan, thank you so much for joining us again. I really appreciate it. Thank you. It's always good to be here. Yes. Okay. Tell me about this. This is right up our alley. I know my audience is going to be really interested in learning about this. Let's start with, okay, what is the after party? What is it? I bet most people listening
1:11.7	to this have no idea what that is. Right. And they might find out soon what it is. So the after
1:17.2	party, it's a Bible study curriculum that was developed by Curtis Chang, who is a former pastor
1:25.7	and a Duke Divinity consulting professor.
1:29.3	I believe he's done some work in Silicon Valley,
1:31.3	but he really became known for the website, Christians and the vaccine.
1:36.5	So he was working in partnership with the federal government
1:40.8	to sort of spread the message that Christians needed to not be
1:44.3	afraid of the COVID vaccine, needed to get vaccinated. And he had a fairly viral video that went out
1:50.4	that said, if you were concerned about it being derived from aborted cells, at one point,
1:57.9	you know, way back in its history, you should look at it as the, as like
2:02.1	an image of Jesus' redemption of sinners. So the vaccine was a redemption of that sin. It was very
2:09.3	bizarre, but it kind of went viral. And so he in partnership with David French and Russell Moore
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