There Can Be No Peace Or Unity With A Violent, Unrepentant Left

Enough with the false, lazy rhetoric blaming 'both sides' for political violence in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder.

David French Will Say Anything For A Paycheck

David French's schtick is too obvious now to pretend he’s doing anything but a 'real conservative' minstrel show for pay.

David French’s Lazy Lies About Russiagate Docs Show He Has No Idea What He’s Talking About

Members of the propaganda press like David French are scrambling to peddle ignorant and disprovable lies about the damning Russiagate documents that were recently declassified. Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley recently released the declassified appendix to Special Counsel John Durham’s 2023 report. The Durham report vindicated President Donald Trump and others who insisted the FBI acted improperly […]

Chip and Joanna Gaines just gave Christians a test — and backlash confirmed it



Are Christians really trying to "cancel" Chip and Joanna Gaines?

The Magnolia power couple faced backlash last month over their new reality show, "Back to the Frontier," because it features a homosexual couple with two children acquired via surrogacy. Understandably, Christians voiced dismay and disapproval that Chip and Jo — who once faced leftist wrath for being members of an evangelical church that opposed LGBTQ ideology — had capitulated to the rainbow mafia.

It's possible to love people while still being honest about sin. Christians do this every day.

But according to New York Times columnist David French, the backlash is not about concerns over biblical fidelity. No, it's really an example of "Christian cancel culture."

In his telling, conservative Christians are behaving "exactly like their cultural opponents" because they feel "powerful" and wield "influence" to abuse it. And, of course, French accuses conservative Christians of hypocrisy because many of them support President Donald Trump.

Worse yet, French describes these Christians as "budding authoritarians."

French's broadside is as predictable as it is shallow (he regularly smears conservative Christians). He paints biblical conviction as "hypocrisy," hides behind the "But Trump!" distraction, and pretends that calling sin by name amounts to silencing people.

But this isn't an example of cancel culture. This is Christians exercising biblical discernment and refusing to support what God calls evil.

Not cancel culture

Everyone knows what cancel culture is. We've all seen it. It's about seizing on people's worst moments and erasing them: silencing them, destroying their careers, and driving them out of the public square.

But that's not what's happening here. Christians aren't trying to strip Chip and Jo of their Magnolia empire, remove them from television, or erase them from polite society. Christians are not even demanding that "Back to the Frontier" be canceled.

What's happening here is quite different — but much simpler.

Faithful Christians are calling out Chip and Jo — whom Christians have supported for more than a decade — for giving a platform to an anti-God lifestyle that harms children by depriving them of God's design for a mother and father, a lifestyle the Bible explicitly condemns and Christianity has never endorsed.

That's not cancel culture. It's moral clarity and biblical accountability.

RELATED: Chip Gaines tells us not to judge — but we won’t pretend any more

Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Warner Bros. Discovery

French deliberately blurs this distinction because his argument collapses without it. He wants his audience to believe that public disagreement with someone's decision is equivalent to the mob-driven erasure tactics of progressive cancel culture.

But scripture makes this distinction clear. When public sin is celebrated, public correction is often the prescribed remedy. Such accountability is not about "cancellation" but protecting the witness of the church and encouraging fellow Christians back to the truth.

The Christian problem with "Back to the Frontier" is obvious: Chip and Joanna Gaines decided or agreed to use their platform — one that Christian support helped build — to normalize sin. This is bad because it confuses believers, distorts the gospel, and damages the church's witness.

'But Trump!'

Like a playlist on repeat, French can't resist making this, in some form or another, about Trump. In his view, conservative Christians lack the moral credibility to critique Chip and Jo because many of those same critics also support Trump.

But this is a tired and overused false equivalence.

I dare say not a single Christian voter who supports Trump endorses his sins — just as they don't endorse the sins of anyone else. Voting for a candidate in an election is not the same thing as endorsing the candidate's personal decisions. In fact, many Christians who support Trump vote for him in spite of his moral flaws. And, of course, the truth is that many Christians believe Trump's policies more closely align with a biblical worldview than whatever gobbledygook the Democrats have on offer.

Here's the real hypocrisy: While French lectures Christians about morality, he supports Democrats whose worldviews, ethics, morals, and political platforms are empty of anything that resembles Christian ethics or a biblical worldview.

How can someone who endorsed Joe Biden and voted for Kamala Harris seriously lecture other Christians about the morality of their vote, then use that vote as a cudgel to smear them? If French were serious about rooting out Christian hypocrisy, he'd start with his own politics.

A time for courage

Christians don't want to cancel Chip and Jo. We're simply being clear about what's true and false, what's good and evil in an age where everything is upside down.

Now is the time for Christians to stand up and courageously proclaim God's truth with love.

What we cannot do is celebrate, excuse, justify, or normalize sin, especially sin of this magnitude, an issue that is foundational to creation and shapes the very fabric of society. And we definitely shouldn't capitulate to the culture for the sake of pluralism, as French suggests we do. That's not cancel culture. It's what Jesus calls being "salt" and "light."

After all, what good is salt if it has lost its saltiness?

On this issue, French is like a light hidden under a basket. He is not only dead wrong about his conclusions, but his framing is dishonest. This isn't about cancel culture or partisan politics. The real issue here is whether Christians will be faithful to God and His ways or whether they will bend to a culture that hates God and His truth.

It's possible to love people while still being honest about sin. Christians do this every day. Love does not require complicity.

The Christian faith isn't a private hobby. It's a comprehensive worldview that speaks to every part of life. If God's design for sexuality and family is true — and it is — then pretending to be neutral in the public square is just another form of surrender.

That's why Christians must reject French's false equivalences and cheap moralism. Because in the end, this isn't about Chip and Joanna Gaines. It's about whether the church will have the courage to tell the truth and discern the difference between light and darkness.

Chip and Jo just gave Christians a test. The backlash — epitomized by David French's absurd accusations — only confirmed how urgent it is for Christians to pass that test with flying colors.

A man says he’s a woman — and his brain scan ‘proves’ it?



Transgender economist Brian Riedl, who now goes by “Jessica,” claims that his brain scans prove he’s neurologically female.

“Typical male and female brains contain subtle but real differences. And because our genes contain a full blueprint for both male and female development, it is possible even for some people with XX or XY genes to experience chemical changes in the womb that alter some of the gender development signals, particularly to the brain,” Riedl wrote in a post on X defending his transgenderism.

“I knew from age 4 that something was off with my gender, and later participated in several gender medical studies that confirmed a more female brain chemistry/architecture/functioning, hormone levels, and other biological characteristics,” he continued. “Most people who transition are merely aligning the rest of their body with other observable biological gender aspects (mostly in the brain) that emerged before birth.”


BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey is disturbed that even some conservatives are falling for Riedl’s claims.

“This idea that brain scans can prove that you have a female brain — that’s just not true, and it’s not possible,” Stuckey says on “Relatable.” “Now, it could be possible that someone has true, true gender dysphoria.”

“But the remedy for that is to help someone accept their biological reality, not to get them to reject their biological reality, to try to change their outward appearance and try to force everyone else to accept something that will never be true, that a man can become a woman or a woman can become a man,” she continues.

“All of us have different kinds of things wrong with our brain or wrong with our thinking or ways in which our thinking is incongruent with reality. But we don’t try to bend reality to try to fit what our brain wrongly thinks,” she adds.

Riedl also claims that his family life with his wife and children hasn’t changed at all since he transitioned, but Stuckey isn’t buying it.

“I don’t believe you,” she says. “You have two young children, and you think that they accept this. They miss their dad, and this is sowing confusion in their lives. And you are sacrificing their stability on the altar of your desire, and that is the height of selfishness.”

Want more from Allie Beth Stuckey?

To enjoy more of Allie’s upbeat and in-depth coverage of culture, news, and theology from a Christian, conservative perspective, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

Trans ideology's newest victim



While writing for the National Review in 2018, David French refused to use the name Chelsea for former army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning, arguing that to do so did not align with his Christian beliefs.

However, times have changed, and French unfortunately appears to have fallen, as the mighty often do. This was hinted at when French publicly referred to Brian Riedl, a Manhattan Institute fellow who claims to have a “female brain,” as Jessica.

In a social media post on X, French congratulated “Jessica” for his new position at the Dispatch, writing, “This is great news for the Dispatch. Nobody is better on fiscal policy than Jessica.”


While French did not use Riedl’s preferred pronouns in the tweet — which BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey of “Relatable” believes he did to avoid conflict — he did use Riedl’s preferred pronouns in an article for the New York Times.

“Jessica might be one of the nation’s foremost experts about the federal budget and about America’s fiscal realities, and she has taught me an enormous amount about those issues,” he wrote.

“Now, you could say the New York Times would never allow him to use male pronouns for someone who identifies as a woman, but if you are so principled and you are so on the side of truth and reality, David French, would you really allow an editorial team at the New York Times or anywhere to compel you to lie? Because that’s what you have done,” Stuckey comments.

When French argued against using preferred pronouns in 2018, he wrote in an article titled “The transgender debate: Conservatives cannot compromise truth” that “the transgender debate is not about tolerance, it’s about truth.”

“Conservatives cannot, must not, compromise on the biological reality of sex, and they cannot pretend that surgically or chemically altering the body somehow changes that reality,” he continued, adding, “To use female pronouns is to endorse fiction.”

French also wrote that the push to mandate preferred pronoun usage is “a direct assault on free speech and religious liberty.”

“It’s not just a social norm, it’s tyranny,” he added.

“The irony is, in all of this, David French has been arguing for years that evangelicals have accepted a tyrant in Trump because he has promised to give us some of the things that we want,” Stuckey says.

“And yet, here he is, submitting to what he has called tyranny by calling a man ‘she,’” she adds.

Want more from Allie Beth Stuckey?

To enjoy more of Allie’s upbeat and in-depth coverage of culture, news, and theology from a Christian, conservative perspective, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

Russell Moore And David French Work Overtime To Divide Christians

There's nothing Christian about Never Trumpers' smear tactics against faithful believers.

David French And The Never-Trump Faction Don’t Care About Free Speech At All

If you think America is just an idea, then you’ll gladly sacrifice the rights of Americans for the ‘rights’ of foreigners.

Trump Is Right: There Is Nothing You Can Do To Make Democrats Happy

The only way to earn praise from Democrats is to become one.

Christians Who Opposed Trump Should Examine Their Hearts After His Week Of Big Biblical Wins

Trump’s actions pave the way for Christians to live out obedience to God without the retribution guaranteed by the Biden administration.