Why did Christianity Today receive over $1 million from USAID?



The Department of Government Efficiency’s findings have blown the lid off what appears to be some seriously strange goings-on when it comes to why and how our hard-earned tax dollars are spent — and it just keeps getting worse.

This is particularly true for USAID, a government agency that most Americans believe simply does charitable work overseas.

“In fact, it’s not that,” Megan Basham tells Allie Beth Stuckey on “Relatable.” "It does a little bit of that, but it does a whole lot of other stuff, too, and so what it actually stands for is the U.S. Agency for International Development.”

“As people have been searching through this, they found some things that look like, OK, that didn’t turn out to be anything,” she continues, adding, “and other things that are not really explained, like why did Christianity Today show up taking 1.8 million from the federal government in their 2023 tax return?”


“And some things came up that confirmed what we already knew but showed it to be worse than we already knew,” she continues, referencing “The After Party.”

“One thing I can tell you is that I knew, and we have talked about in the past, that left-wing foundations were funneling money into this political Bible study that Curtis Chang, Christianity Today editor in chief Russell Moore, and New York Times writer David French developed to bring onto Christian college campuses and churches,” she explains.

The Bible study received several hundred thousand dollars from Bill Kristol’s Defending Democracy organization, which is a political organization that was named the top source of dark campaign spending in 2020 by the watchdog group Open Secrets.

“It just doesn’t seem like a coincidence to me that these organizations like 'The After Party,' like Christianity Today, and others, are taking money from the same government that has been pushing the idea for the past few years that white Christian nationalism is the greatest terroristic threat and threat to democracy that exists,” Stuckey comments.

“I’m not saying that all organizations that are taking funding from this entity are pushing this idea, but it doesn’t seem like a coincidence, especially when you see that Christianity Today started taking money in 2023. Over a million dollars, didn’t get that in 2022,” she continues.

Basham couldn’t agree more.

“Christianity Today has been very much on the front lines in both their editorial coverage and their news coverage, of banging this drum against Christian nationalism,” Basham says.

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How left-wing billionaires INFECTED Christianity to suppress the religious vote



In a shocking survey by the Barna Group, it’s been revealed that 32 million church-attending Christians are planning to sit this election out and not show up at the ballot box.

“There’s a really important data point in that Barna research, and it’s that it’s not just Christians that are sitting out, it is regular churchgoers, so it’s not just the people who culturally identify as Christians,” bestselling author and Daily Wire reporter Megan Basham tells Liz Wheeler of “The Liz Wheeler Show.”

But why is it happening?

“One, obviously, we have to acknowledge the abortion issue. I think the Republican Party’s conflicting messaging on this cycle has depressed enthusiasm a little bit,” Basham explains.


“But, there’s also something else that I think is more significant going on and that is the fact that a lot of this voter suppression, lack of enthusiasm, has been deliberately orchestrated by left secular foundations and billionaires,” she continues.

Basham believes “they have been working for the last few years to try to convince Christians, ‘Hey, you don’t need to vote. It’s not important that you play a part in the political process. In fact, it could be political idolatry.’”

One example is a Bible study curriculum called “The Afterparty,” which was created by David French, the editor in chief of Christianity Today, and a Democrat Party Duke Divinity professor.

“All three never-Trumpers, two of whom are supporting Kamala Harris openly,” Basham says. “They created this supposed political Bible study curriculum to go into conservative churches, conservative college campuses. There was an effort to get it on 185 conservative college campuses, and it teaches Christians that politics are really complex.”

“‘It’s not always clear who you should vote for, and what we really need to do is turn down the rhetoric, and, in fact, we don’t know how we should vote except on the issue of alleged racial injustice,’” she says, giving an example.

“It makes it pretty clear when you read the curriculum who they want you to vote for, and that curriculum is exclusively funded by hard left secular foundations, Rockefeller philanthropy advisers, and the Hewlett Foundation, which also backed Planned Parenthood and transgender initiatives for youth and things of that nature,” Basham explains, adding, “These are not Christians, and they are funding these kind of operations in order to, I would say, really suppress that Christian vote.”

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3 Ways Democrats Manipulate Christians’ Goodwill For Partisan Ends

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George Soros, Andy Stanley, and the left-wing plot to END Evangelicalism



Evangelical leaders are selling out to the LGBTQ agenda, and Daily Wire reporter Megan Basham, who just released her new book “Shepherds for Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded the Truth for a Leftist Agenda,” has the receipts.

“You have organizations that claim to be ministries that are taking funding from secular, left-wing, gay lobbying groups,” Basham tells Allie Beth Stuckey on “Relatable,” noting that the Arcus Foundation is one of them.

The Foundation was founded in 2000, and it’s the country’s largest LGBTQ grant maker.

“What that foundation started to do, the Arcus Foundation, was look at, ‘Okay, how can we reform church doctrine in conservative ministries and in conservative denominations,’ and that’s what they did,” Basham says.

“They’re bringing this curriculum in,” she continues. “I think a lot of churches don’t realize that activists are being trained to come change your doctrine on this.”

Stuckey knows of one pastor in particular who’s embraced this change, referencing a recent sermon pastor Andy Stanley gave.

“He basically said that homosexuality is different than any other sin because saying that homosexuality is a sin is saying that who someone is is a sin,” Stuckey says. “Which is a completely unbiblical way to look at sexuality and identity.”

A more widely known name has also been pushing a left-wing agenda on the church.

That name is George Soros.

“His foundation started funding a secular-left immigration NGO called the National Immigration Forum, and around 2013, 2015, they realized that they needed to move the evangelical vote on this particular issue if they wanted to get some of these immigration reform policies, what I would call very lax border policies, across the finish line,” Basham tells Stuckey.

So, they partnered with the National Association of Evangelicals and launched what Basham calls a “front group”: the Evangelical Immigration Table.

“Its purpose, to be very clear, is not to do things like spread the gospel to illegal immigrants. It’s not to feed and clothe people regardless of how they got there,” Basham explains. “It’s specifically policy-focused.”

Groups like the ERLC and the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities have also been heavily involved in these groups.

“They all became involved with this group,” Basham continues, “that is under the umbrella of a secular left immigration NGO that is taking funding from people like George Soros in this program that was specifically designed to target conservative voters, specifically evangelical.”


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