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Democrats Close Campaign with Porn

Megan Basham

In the final days of the 2024 election, the Democrats have at last hit on a pitch they believe will make inroads with young men: Vote for us, the party...

The Plot to Queer Evangelical Churches

Megan Basham

The following essay is adapted from Shepherds for Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded the Truth for a Leftist Agenda. In September 2019, in Mesa, Arizona, pastor Ryan Visconti was...

Follow the Money to the After Party

Megan Basham

Secular news outlets from NPR to the New York Times are hailing Tim Alberta’s new book, The Kingdom, The Power, and the Glory, for furthering the popular thesis that...

Rooting Out the Weeds

Megan Basham

Bear the standard for religious orthodoxy with First Things. Make your contribution to our 2023 spring campaign today at firstthings.com/donate. Recently I fell into the role of chronicler of evangelical compromise. This...

Prodigal Daughter

Megan Basham

Like many a wayward daughter of middle-class America, when I was in college I took up academic culture’s invitation to throw off the moral restraints of my Christian upbringing....