<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Daily Wire reporter Megan Basham’s new book “</span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Shepherds-Sale-Evangelical-Leaders-Leftist-ebook/dp/B0CRQGNLMY"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Shepherds for Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded the Truth for a Leftist Agenda</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">” hit the New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists on Wednesday after the book was released last week. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Shepherds for Sale” reached the #12 spot on the </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/combined-print-and-e-book-nonfiction/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">New York Times</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> bestseller list and the #109 spot on the </span><a href="https://www.usatoday.com/booklist/type/nonfiction/date/2024-08-07"><span style="font-weight: 400;">USA Today</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> list among all books, competing with new releases such as Jonathan Haidt’s “The Anxious Generation” and Erik Larson’s “The Demon of Unrest.” It’s the first time Basham has hit the bestseller lists.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;Seeing &#8216;Shepherds for Sale&#8217; hit the New York Times bestseller list is incredibly encouraging,” Basham said. “Despite Big Eva and today&#8217;s establishment powerbrokers&#8217; efforts to dismiss the truth exposed in the book, Christians all over the country are waking up. There is a hunger for genuine biblical truth and newfound courage to resist conforming to the world&#8217;s gospel of leftism. Thank you to everyone who has backed this book and embraced this vital discussion.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The book, which hit the shelves at the end of July, “documents how progressive powerbrokers — from George Soros, to the founder of eBay, to former members of the Obama administration — set out to change the American church. Their goal: to co-opt evangelicals for political purposes.” Basham’s book quickly jumped to the #1 bestseller in the Christian Church Leadership category on Amazon. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Shepherds for Sale” also details how a megachurch pastor pushed fellow pastors to move their views on sexuality to the Left and how leftist talking points on climate change and “systemic racism” have crept into American churches. Following the book’s release, Basham urged evangelical leaders to “get serious about tracing the secular Left influences in any number of evangelical institutions.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Basham’s book caused a stir on social media after its release as some of the evangelical leaders exposed in “Shepherds for Sale” have pushed back against the Daily Wire reporter. One pastor, Gavin Ortlund, even released a podcast episode on Basham’s book after she highlighted some of his troubling comments on climate change in “Shepherds for Sale.” Despite some pastors’ efforts to discredit Basham’s work, many Christians have heaped praise on the book.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“When church leadership does not know who is behind an organization, they should not agree to sign their public statements or participate in their coalitions. Also, the time for politely ignoring what is going on has come to an end,” Basham said. “It is time to follow the model of J. Gresham Machen in the 1920s and begin to directly call out compromise, capitulation, and infiltration. As he has stated, liberalism is an altogether different religion than Christianity.”</span></p>

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