She used to be pro-choice — until a Facebook comment changed her mind



As one of the most vocal conservative advocates for the pro-life cause, it may come as a shock to some that Allie Beth Stuckey used to be pro-choice — but without realizing it.

“I’ve always considered myself pro-life. I just have known reflexively and because I was raised in a Christian household that abortion is wrong, that it’s killing a human being, and that that is wrong, but I also knew that there were these rare exceptions that I thought needed to happen sometimes,” Stuckey explains on “Relatable.”

“I posted something to that effect on Facebook; I guess maybe I just adopted the general Republican position that yes, abortion is wrong, should be illegal, but there’s rape, there’s incest, there’s fetal anomalies. And I thought that was a sophisticated, nuanced, but fully pro-life position,” she continues.


When Stuckey posted this to Facebook, someone replied in the comments asking what the difference is between a baby conceived in rape and a baby not conceived in rape.

“That comment stopped me in my tracks,” she recalls. “I think that really had a big effect on how I started thinking about abortion, but I realized either in that moment or just over time that I was thinking about abortion, even as someone who called myself staunchly pro-life, as an abstract issue, as a political issue, and not from the perspective of the baby, and not really as murder.”

When she changed the lens through which she was viewing what she thought was just a “procedure,” she ultimately changed her mind.

“I wasn’t thinking about it in realistic, stark, terms, and that is that it murders a child and that the humanity of that person that’s being killed does not change based on the circumstances surrounding its conception,” she explains.

“I don’t know who that commenter was, but I’m thankful for them,” she continues, adding, “And you just never know how God is going to use your insistence upon speaking the truth in love.”

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American Girl converts to Islam



If you’re an American woman, there’s a high likelihood you grew up playing with the classic American Girl dolls — where each doll came with a story depicting a historical, pure Americana tale.

But if you’re a young girl in today’s America, that’s all changing.

The classic American Girl doll has taken a turn for the politically correct, with its latest Instagram post featuring an American Girl doll celebrating the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Fitr as a part of its “Cultural Celebrations” outfit line.

Allie Beth Stuckey of “Relatable” grew up playing with the dolls and devouring their stories, so she's more than a little disappointed that her daughters won’t experience the same magic that once was.


“I’m a girl mom who has three little girls who love dolls and would love American Girl. I would love to take them to the American Girl store. I grew up reading the American Girl books. They were some of my favorite books. I remember their lives; I remember their stories and all of their different personality traits,” Stuckey recalls.

“They always championed basic virtues and also just showing appropriate confidence as a girl and the value and the uniqueness of being a girl,” she continues. “But we’ve started seeing some sketchy things over the years, because as we know, as a principle, if an institution is not explicitly biblical, not just explicitly conservative, but explicitly biblical, it will end up veering into degeneracy.”

“It will end up veering to the left, questioning basic realities like gender, breaking down the moral values that we have agreed upon at least as culturally Christian Americans for a very long time,” she adds.

Stuckey’s concern is that Islam is now being seen as a formidable part of American society.

“When I look at Muslim-majority countries everywhere, most of them are completely rot with archaic violence and chaos and oppression of the most vulnerable. When we look at all of the major terrorist groups around the world,” she says, “all of these terrorist groups, save a couple, are Islamic in nature.”

“When we look at the religious affiliations of the groups most violently persecuting both Jews and Christians around the world, it’s all Islam,” she continues. “That is not to say that every person who is Muslim is violent; that is not to say every person who is Muslim is going to be a terrorist or is going to be a radical extremist, but obviously we see the common denominator there.”

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Should Austin Metcalf’s dad forgive his murderer?



Austin Metcalf was a 17-year-old who was murdered last week at a high school track meet in Frisco, Texas, allegedly by Karmelo Anthony, who allegedly stabbed Metcalf in the chest following a brief altercation.

Anthony was reportedly sitting in the wrong tent, one that was not designated for his school, and he was asked to move. Some reports claim Anthony replied “touch me and see what happens,” while others claim he said “make me.”

Metcalf then allegedly went to grab Anthony’s backpack, which Anthony was still wearing, which is when Anthony allegedly pulled a knife and stabbed him. Metcalf died in his twin brother's arms. When Anthony was apprehended by Frisco police, upon being referred to as a suspect, he said, “I’m not alleged; I did it.”


While a devastating and tragic loss, Metcalf's murder has sparked a heated debate online — one that is cultural, political, and racial.

The debate really began after Metcalf’s father gave an interview about his son’s murder.

“I want to make this very clear. This is not a race issue. This is not a black and white issue. I don’t want someone stepping up on a soapbox trying to politicize this. I don’t appreciate some of the remarks I’ve seen online that people say there was this fight. They don’t know; they weren’t there,” Metcalf’s father said.

“Some people were mad in thinking that he was defending the murder,” Allie Beth Stuckey of “Relatable” explains. “I don’t think that’s what he’s doing. I think that he doesn’t want this very real human tragedy to be a part of a political discussion.”

The father also said, “This is murder. I don’t know. I know they have someone in custody, and you know what? I already forgive this person. Already. God takes care of things. God’s going to take care of me. God’s going to take care of my family.”

“I do not think it is correct to say the Christian is called to unconditionally and immediately forgive, no matter what. Now, that might be scandalous to say. I don’t think that that is the biblical example or the explanation that we are given for Christian forgiveness,” Stuckey says.

“I think if we read in context, we are not just talking about blanket unconditional forgiveness immediately in every circumstance. We are talking about, within these interpersonal relationships, especially with our fellow Christians, people who are seeking our forgiveness, people who are repenting,” she continues.

While Stuckey does not believe unconditional forgiveness right away is the answer, she does believe refusing to hold on to anger is.

“Even if someone has not repented, even if Karmelo Anthony is proud of what he has done, even if he has not repented, I still think that the father is right to let go of bitterness and to say the justice system is going to work how it’s going to work, and God avenges, and he’s going to take care of me,” she explains.

“I wonder if it is possible to say, ‘I have not forgiven that person yet, but I have let it go, but I’m not allowing it to crush me any more, I am not allowing it to make me bitter or resentful because I trust in God’s goodness, I trust that he is going to take care of wickedness once and for all,’” she adds.

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‘Two white ladies’ reveal the prosperity gospel’s grip on black churches — and ignite a fire storm



The prosperity gospel is taught everywhere, but in a recent interview with Melissa Dougherty on “Relatable,” Allie Beth Stuckey pointed out that it's interestingly prevalent in many majority-black churches as well.

As no truth goes uncontested, Stuckey’s comments sparked some controversy — but she has the stats to back her claims up.

“I started getting some random messages on Instagram from people who didn’t follow me, maybe a week or so after that episode came out, saying basically, ‘Where do you get off on saying that the prosperity gospel is in the majority of black churches?’” Stuckey explains, adding, “Which is not what I said.”

After a little digging, she realized the negative reaction was ignited by a post on X by Pastor Eric Mason.


“I just watched a clip with two white women saying that the majority of black churches are prosperity churches and theologically unsound,” Mason wrote.

“If you do an etymology of the prosperity movement which @PreachDamon did in our book on urban apologetics you’d see that it began and was spread by whites for the last 100yrs. This type of stuff makes me angry. Y’all pray for me bc I get in the flesh and wanna say unwholesome things …”

“This is not 2020. That finger-wagging and manipulation doesn’t work around here, and I encourage all of you out there to take that same position,” Stuckey says, before diving into some statistics to back up her case.

According to a 2023 study by Lifeway of Protestant churchgoers, roughly 71% of black American churchgoers report their church teaches aspects of the prosperity gospel.

In a 2021 Pew Research study, roughly 60% of black American churchgoers attend a majority-black church, and an additional 25% attend a multicultural church. And in a 2015 YouGov study of 1,000 American adults who described themselves as born-again Evangelicals, 45% of black Americans believe that prayer can make one wealthier compared to 19% of all churchgoing Americans.

On the question of whether or not wealth is a sign of God’s favor, 9% of white Americans agreed, while 34% of blacks and 24% of Hispanics said definitely or probably.

“So of those surveyed, black Christians are most likely to say that wealth is a sign of God’s favor,” Stuckey comments.

And in an article from the Gospel Coalition by Joe Carter, he claims that black evangelicals held more favorable opinions of prosperity preachers who were not black.

“Many of these white prosperity preachers have congregations that are largely black, which is interesting,” she says, noting that in another survey, black Christians were more likely to have a very or somewhat favorable view of Joel Osteen at 51%, while only 22% of white Christians view him favorably.

All these stats back up Stuckey’s initial comments, which is why she’s not apologetic in the slightest for asking questions.

“The data backs up this observation, by the way, and if you care about the souls of people, if you care about the lives of people, if you care about the gospel, you should be saying yes and amen when anyone, especially someone with a platform, no matter the color of their skin or their ‘suburban face,’ ‘two white ladies,’ according to Eric Mason, that makes him want to say ‘unwholesome things’ in his ‘flesh,’” Stuckey says.

“You should be rejoicing that this is something that is being discussed,” she adds.

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From book burnings to child abuse, ex-cultist unmasks Two-by-Two’s dark secrets



On her latest episode of “Relatable,” Allie Beth Stuckey was joined by author and ex-cult member Elizabeth Coleman, who shared the story of her childhood spent in a mysterious cult with no name and no traceable presence.

Thirty years ago, Coleman left the international group, which some ex-members call the “Two-by-Twos,” and is spreading the word not only about the horrors she experienced but also how she came to truly know Christ.

The cult, Coleman explains, is predicated on the belief that it is the only way to Christ and that all other denominations are literally satanic.

“We did go to a secular school, and the reason for that is we're really strongly conditioned against other Christians and other churches,” she tells Allie. “All other churches were literally called churches of the devil and false churches, so we were actually quite scared of other Christians and other churches.”

Fueling the belief that the Two-by-Two faith is the only path to salvation is the notion that it is “the only church not started by a man — that [it] went all the way back to the original apostles.”

However, that claim quickly falls flat when you look at the cult’s origins. A Scottish-born Irish evangelist named William Irvine founded the group in the late 1800s in Ireland. He believed that he had an “epiphany” that the two-by-two (hence the cult’s name) missionary structure mentioned in some of the gospels was “Jesus’ plan for ministry for all time.”

“He started to believe that he was the chosen one risen up by God to restore his true way on the earth,” says Coleman.

Irvine was eventually excommunicated from the group. Other members went to great lengths to erase him from history, destroying all the records of his letters. As the faith spread to other parts of the world, church planters pretended that he had never existed.

Then in the 1980s, a man named Doug Parker, who was set to join the ministry, got into an argument with high-ranking members of the cult about his plans to take a family trip to Ireland. Apparently they were scared he would uncover the origins of the cult and Irvine. Parker, smelling trouble, then researched the cult in depth, discovered Irvine, and self-published a book called “The Secret Sect” that exposed the Two-by-Two faith.

The cult’s response to Parker’s exposé was to forbid members to read it. However, they were ordered to purchase copies of the book and burn them so that non-cult members couldn’t read them either.

But the truth, as it always does, got out.

Documentaries have since been produced on the Two-by-Two faith, and ex-members, like Coleman, are sharing their experiences.

Coleman tells Allie that according to cult doctrine, the ministers or “workers” — the celibate preachers who travel in pairs — believe they are the “middlemen” between the people and Jesus, who is regarded as a “perfect example” but not a deity. Thus obedience to them is paramount. Any law they make, however arbitrary it might be, must be rigidly adhered to.

“Women could not cut their hair” or “wear makeup or jewelry”; “no television, no recorded music, no sports — watching it or playing it,” were some of the rules.

Church meetings could not be missed for any reason. Coleman tells the story of a young boy who died from appendicitis because his parents chose to attend a meeting rather than address his excruciating stomach pains.

The “workers,” who were forbidden to have a home or possessions, traveled around to different Two-by-Two communities and stayed with various families of the faith.

“They had absolute authority in our lives, so they would ring and say, ‘We are coming on Wednesday; we are staying three nights,’ and you didn't argue,” says Coleman.

“Asking questions” about literally anything — rules, Scripture, the conduct of the workers, etc. — “was about the worst thing you could do.”

It wasn’t until after she had left the cult that she found out about the sexual abuse allegations against many of these workers.

Two years ago, “one of the most revered overseer workers was found dead in a motel room.” It turned out that he “had a credit card” and “had been meeting multiple sexual partners, including underage partners, for a very long time.” After that, some of the female workers came forward and admitted that they had been abused by him as well.

The scandal “opened the floodgates to a whole Me Too movement within the Two-by-Twos,” says Coleman.

“We had people coming forward in the dozens and then the hundreds and then the thousands, and last year the FBI announced a worldwide investigation into the group because workers who had abused were often then shifted across state lines and across countries to reoffend in other places, so they would take the offender, move them somewhere else, try to smooth things over in the local area,” she explains, noting that these kinds of cover-ups were made possible by the unquestionable authority of the workers.

But thanks to social media and streaming services exposing the rampant corruption in the Two-by-Two faith, “they're starting to be recognized on the world stage for the first time.”

To hear more about Coleman’s story, including the wild way she met her husband, her departure from the cult, and her coming to faith in the real Jesus Christ, watch the episode above.

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Robot wombs and trendy eugenics: A moral emergency



Artificial intelligence has been threatening livelihoods for years now, and this threat is not only growing — but mutating.

While still a hypothetical scenario, some are suggesting that technology is not only about to take jobs, but it is on the brink of being able to grow human children in a robotic incubator of sorts, rather than in a woman’s womb as God intended.

The conversation surrounding the potential “progress” was kicked off by a post that went mega viral on x, where a man posted a fake photo of a robot with a baby where a woman’s womb would be.

“Once they successfully make this robot that can give birth, it’s over for you, ladies,” the man wrote in the post.


Shockingly, many of the responses to the post were women pleased with the idea that men could impregnate a robot instead of themselves.

“So you see, that the feminist dream, the feminist idea, is that a woman’s body is actually oppressive to us. That our amazing capability to create, bear, and then sustain life is actually a form of oppression that women need to be liberated from via this kind of dystopian technology,” Allie Beth Stuckey of “Relatable” comments.

While the image in the post was fake, the desire to create this kind of technology is very real.

A 2023 article from the MIT Technology Review only confirms this, with the headline “The first babies conceived with a sperm-injecting robot have been born.”

“One of the engineers with no real experience in fertility medicine, used a Sony PlayStation 5 controller to position a robotic needle eyeing a human egg through a camera. It then moved forward on its own, penetrating the egg, and dropping off a single sperm cell,” the article reads.

“The goal of automating IVF is to make a lot more babies. Full automation of IVF is still a long way off as IVF involves over a dozen procedures, and the sperm injecting robot only partially performs one of them,” the article continues, adding, “There is some evidence to suggest that fertility machines like the sperm injecting robot could eventually evolve into artificial wombs, but the technology is not there yet.”

Stuckey is horrified.

“There is a reason why so much dystopian fiction creates these scenes where the beginning of life is artificial,” she says. “I mean this is ‘Brave New World.’ In ‘Brave New World,’ these babies are created in pods. We don’t know exactly how they’re made, but they are disconnected from their biological parents.”

“We’re not supposed to be mimicking dystopian fiction. We are supposed to be learning from it and running away from it,” she continues. “It is a misunderstanding and mistreatment of human dignity and the human experience and human purpose.”

“When we play God in this way, and when humans intervene, there will be consequences. Not only consequences on the individuals that are without their consent being treated as a science experiment, in this case babies, but also on society in general,” she adds.

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Should children have sleepovers? Why technology completely changes the answer



No parent is perfect, but exactly how one should parent has become a highly contentious topic of debate — especially when it comes to giving kids space and allowing them to learn as they go.

Most holistically minded parents would agree that keeping your children in the safety of your home at all times, occupying them through screens, and hovering over their every move will result in children who don’t know how to think, or do, for themselves.

But what about sleepovers?


“I did do sleepovers growing up, like early, I don’t know about as young as kindergarten, but I feel like first, second grade, I was definitely sleeping over at friends' houses and they would sleep over at my house,” Allie Beth Stuckey of “Relatable” recalls.

“My parents' rule was if I went over to anyone’s house, whether it was spending the night or not, they had to know their parents, not just, ‘I talked to them once on the phone,’ but like really know them,” she continues, adding, “I think that’s a good boundary.”

But things are different now than they were when Stuckey was a child.

“You should not only know their parents, but if your kid is going over to a house at any point of the day, you should also know their siblings, you should know what access to technology they have and what they’re going to be doing, what their rules are,” she explains.

“My stance is different than my parents', in that I say no to sleepovers,” she continues. “I do believe it’s a good general rule, especially with the access to technology that kids have today.”

Some children are exposed to horrific imagery, like pornography, at sleepovers — which can leave a devastating mark on a child’s psyche that follows him all the way into adulthood.

“I think there are good risks, and then unnecessary risks,” Stuckey says, adding, “I think it’s Jordan Peterson that said, ‘Let your kids do dangerous things safely,’ and I think that’s a pretty good rule of thumb.”

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Pastor’s new youth LGBTQ training program is highly disturbing



A training video from Pastor Andy Stanley’s North Point Community Church has been leaked to the public — and to Allie Beth Stuckey’s horror, it’s not biblical in the slightest.

“This training that they are now implementing, that they are now showing to their youth leaders at their church called ‘Transit’ is very troubling to me, because it uses words that sound good while ultimately not affirming what scripture actually says about LGBTQ identity,” Stuckey says on “Relatable.”

The training videos, which were supposed to be private, seem to instruct the youth leaders to ignore self-declared transgender status of children and teenagers in order to make kids struggling with gender deception more comfortable.


“We know that middle school can be complicated. Students are growing up fast and need a place where they can learn how God sees them,” the Transit website states. The training videos include Transit director Britt Kitchen instructing small group leaders on how to handle issues related to their upcoming teaching series on sexuality.

“If we found out that OK, North Point is addressing this issue from a biblical perspective, they’re not ignoring it, I would be applauding and saying, ‘Yes,’” Stuckey says, “However, how they go about this I really, really disagree with.”

Kitchen begins the videos by giving three main principles that the youth leaders try to emphasize as they teach middle schoolers about topics related to sexuality. The first is to “honor God with your body,” the second is “don’t be mastered by anything,” and the third is “don’t sexualize any relationship outside of marriage.”

While Stuckey agrees with all three of these principles, it’s not the principles themselves but the explanations that she takes issue with. Like when Kitchen begins discussing sexual identity — he never supports his statements with biblical teachings.

“Now, gender dysphoria, this is a weird term. We don’t hear this a lot. Basically, this is the clinical term for anyone who is unsure about their gender,” Kitchen says in the video, adding, “Dysphoria is the opposite of euphoria. Euphoria is joy, happiness, content, and excitement. Gender dysphoria is like they’re not comfortable, they don’t have joy over it, they’re not sure where they land.”

“I mean, how many people honestly have ‘joy’ over their gender?” Stuckey asks. “Even putting this dichotomy up there, euphoria or dysphoria, I think causes a lot of confusion because you might have a kid out there that’s like, ‘Well, I don’t feel euphoric about being a girl or boy,’ especially in middle school.”

“I mean, that automatically is going to make kids wonder, ‘Well, what am I categorized as? If I’m not euphoric, then am I really transgender?’ But this is not the definition of gender dysphoria, by the way,” she continues.

In the video, Kitchen also discusses a real-life scenario where a family left their church and began going to North Point Community Church because their previous church wouldn’t “affirm” their child’s identity.

“He is saying that it was wrong that their local church would not affirm this child in being the opposite sex, would not call this child by pronouns that do not correlate with his God-given biological reality, and this person, who is the head of middle school ministry at North Point Church in Atlanta, led by Andy Stanley, is saying that was wrong, that church was not a safe place, that person, that child, had to pretend to be something else,” Stuckey says, shocked.

“That is sowing confusion in those kids,” she continues, adding, “That is so damaging to their understanding of God, and themselves, and others, and reality, and morality.”

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‘The darkness hates the light’: Why Christians must persevere in the public sphere



While a majority of Americans identify as Christians, many of them have been misled to believe in a version of Christianity that is not biblical — for fear of how they’d be treated in the public square.

“We are told over and over again that if you, as not just a Christian, but a conservative Christian, bring your worldview into the public square, into politics, if you allow what you believe about the Bible to influence your politics, you are a fascist, you are a dictator, you’re trying to bring in ‘The Handmaid’s Tale,’ you are a Christian nationalist,” Allie Beth Stuckey tells author and apologist Natasha Crain on “Relatable.”

However, the opposite is true for progressives.


“If you’re a progressive that uses some decontextualized Bible verse to support your immigration policy or your abortion policy or your socialistic policy, that’s not Christian nationalism, that’s fine, that’s true, good Christianity,” Stuckey continues.

“It’s only when a Christian might say, ‘Well, you know, Psalm 139 makes it pretty clear that babies inside the womb are valuable or made by God, so I don’t think that it should be legal to murder them,’ all of a sudden that is prohibited in a form of tyranny,” she adds.

“I think Christians get very confused on this because we see that there’s so many different ideas out there of what is good. People start saying that what we believe is harmful and toxic and that we’re misogynous and we’re oppressors,” Crain says. “We have all these insults that are hurled at us because of our ideas about the common good.”

“What the world calls good may be evil, and what the world calls evil may be good,” she adds, noting that many Christians get dissuaded from preaching what they believe is good because others don’t like them for it.

“Jesus said, ‘If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own,’” Crain says. “So he was warning his disciples before they went out on mission. He didn’t give them warm and fuzzies and say, ‘Hey, this is going to be great.’”

“He actually gave an explanation for why they would be hated by saying, ‘If you were of the world,’ and to be ‘of the world’ literally means to be under the governing rule of Satan. Scripture is very clear that you are either of Satan or of God. You’re a child of Satan or a child of God,” she continues.

“Those who are children of Satan, they want to go their own way. It’s their own wills, their own desires. They are slaves to sin. And people who are slaves to sin are always going to hate those who are slaves to righteousness, who are children of God, because the darkness hates the light,” she adds.

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