Megan Basham’s Shepherds for Sale is an engaging, revealing, often depressing exposé of evangelical ministers who have sold out themselves and their flocks to the agenda of the secular Left. What makes Basham’s tale so sad is that many of the ministers she covers began as conservatives—or at least not as left-wingers. But in due course, they capitulated to the progressive Left, especially on issues like race, sex, and gender. These morally and intellectually compromised pastors have ladled up the whole alphabet soup, from CRT (Critical Race Theory) and DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion), to LGBTQIA2S+ (the latest embellishment on an ever more ornate sexual panoply).

Basham is a reporter, most notably for The Daily Wire. Her main beat is the evangelical movement, a subject she has covered at The Wall Street Journal, First Things, National Review, WORLD Magazine, and The American Spectator, among many other venues. She does real and often courageous digging to come up with firsthand sources. The chapters of this book typically open with anecdotes from her own reporting on topics ranging from climate change to illegal immigration, abortion to COVID, CRT to #MeToo and the LGBTQ movement. In each area, she highlights examples of actual people she has met who have been severely hurt by their wayward pastors.

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