Evangelical Christians make up roughly 30% of the electorate, leading the legacy

media to name them America's most powerful voting block. In the past, they have

overwhelmingly supported the GOP, but recent elections suggest that could be changing, thanks in part to secular foundations on the left that have devoted significant money to capturing evangelical institutions and changing

evangelical votes. In this episode I talk with a guest many of our

listeners will know well, MorningWire's own culture reporter Megan Basham,

about her new book Shepherds for Sale, how

evangelical leaders traded the truth for a leftist agenda. She explains how

left-wing billionaires and secular influencers are infiltrating and

transforming churches. I'm Georgia

Howe it's July 28th and this is a Sunday edition of Morning Wire. Joining me to discuss her new book is Megan Basham. So Megan, this was such a

fascinating read and part of what struck me was the history that you start out

with. This is not actually a new thing for American

churches. It's something familiar that happened in the 1930s and 40s with the Communist Party

USA. Why don't you start there with a little bit of that history?

Yeah, you know, so I thought it was really important to start the book out with that because you want to remind people that this is not the first time that we've seen activity like this.

So in the 30s and 40s you saw the Communist

Party USA infiltrate churches in a very deliberate way in order to sway their

views on politics and on social justice and on Marxism and

later this kind of information came out in congressional testimony and

what's fascinating about it is that at that time Congress called some of the

organizations that mainline Christian churches and denominations had become

involved with some of the most seditious organizations in the United States. In fact, eventually government

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