Book Review of Shepherds for Sale & A Defense of Author Megan Basham

A book that I have long awaited for, even before hearing of its publication, came out last week and is now available wherever you buy books. Shepherds for Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded the Truth for a Leftist Agenda.

In recent years, several authors have responded to the infiltration of leftism into evangelicalism, especially after the scab was torn off around 2019-2020, when those inside BigEva showed us exactly who they really were during Covid-19, the 2020 election and its aftermath, including January 6, 2021. Basham builds on their work with her own research, finding where money from leftist billionaires like Pierre Omidyar and (as usual) George Soros, have funded evangelical groups not to aid in spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ, but instead bring and convert evangelicals to the secular and false religion of Leftism.

Basham notes that evangelical Christians are the largest voting bloc in America. It is also the last cultural institution in America that the Left has not completely taken over. As such, evangelicals have been the roadblock to leftist causes like gloBULL warming legislation, the sexual anarchy of the LGBTQRS agenda, and open borders being enacted. Even internal emails Basham has mentioned from a Soros organization have conceded this point. Which explains why the Left has over the last 15 to 20 years slowly started to creep into evangelicalism. Two of the biggest instances of the Left using the church to push their radical agenda has been seen in the last few years: the Covid-19 outbreak and the use of CRT in unBiblical racial reconciliation “ministries” that employ sinful race shaming for which there is no grace or mercy, only “doing the work” of social justice and a heretical idea called “antiracism.”

With Covid-19, Basham expands on her groundbreaking articles on BigEva’s embrace of Francis Collins at the NIH, and how the Biden Regime used several evangelicals to push getting the experimental vaccine by using Jesus’ words as nothing more that an empty virtue signal: “love your neighbor.” In fact, so much of the Leftist agenda is being pushed using those three words, or the other much misused phrase “unto the least of these….” (Matthew 25).

Basham uses personal stories from regular churchgoers who have contacted her about what they have encountered in their own churches, as well as what she has seen in her own denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention. If there is one critique I have of Basham’s book, it is one that she even admitted in her conclusion: what she covered in her book only scratched the surface of the rot taking place in the evangelical church. Then again, if she had waited to cover everything that was going wrong in evangelicalism, she would still be writing a book that is long overdue for American Christians.

This is a book that is a must have for all Christians, and especially those in Christian leadership, so they can know what to expect and have the courage to take a stand against this Leftist woke infiltration. Since 2024 is an election year, the woke BigEva crowd are doing all they can to influence voters not to vote for Donald Trump, who they go after as “immoral,” but they will support the Democrat Party ticket that pushes an ungodly and immoral worldview. If there is ever a time where Christians need to stand up, resist, and name and shame these false teachers, it is now.

To illustrate how timely and right on the money Basham’s book is to our current day, BigEva has employed a full-on effort to discredit Basham personally, as well as her work. Some of the individuals she has mentioned have had armies of astroturfers attack her book in online reviews, and comments on podcasts. These attacks say a lot, because what they show is just how true Basham’s claims are (and she has the receipts). It is also proof of the old adage (illustrated below) that the flak is always the worst when you are over the target.

I find it hypocritical that these BigEva types talk out one side of their mouth against evangelicals “seeking power” or supposed patriarchal behavior, yet here they are bulling a woman with their typical Alinskyesque attacks.

I have never met nor talked with Ms. Basham, however I can vouch for so much of what she has illustrated in Shepherds for Sale. I recently left a church I had been a member of for the last five years. It is part of a newer denomination created as a break away from the Episcopal Church over heresies like ordination of homosexual bishops. What I wanted to wish as “disagreements among my brothers” over a few things I heard in 2019 blew up into serious questions about false teachings in the summer of 2020. It didn’t help matters how I also saw one individual Basham mentioned in her book as a member of the church who was influential in special events held at the church on elections. The church also counts as a ministry partner an organization who has received six figure grants from George Soros’ Open Society Foundation that seeks to change evangelical minds about the state of Israel. The church also held a reading of Jemar Tisby’s CRT based book “Color of Compromise” that has accused the evangelical church, via cherry-picked stats and historical accounts, of being complicit in white supremacy. A few months after speaking with the pastor of my concerns and how the church was patterning with ministries and presenting material that was more based in leftist thought than Biblical principles, what I heard after the demonic attack on Israel that occurred October 7 was the last straw. What is even more frightening is how hard it is these days to find churches, especially in large metropolitan areas, who are grounded in solid Biblical principles.

Maybe some of you who read this may have encountered a similar church. If you have or know someone, please have them read Shepherds for Sale, and read it for yourself as well.