Ep 1136 | Christianity Today, Be the Bridge, & the Evangelical Underbelly of USAID Funds | Guest: Megan Basham

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey

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News, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, News Commentary

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🗓️ 6 February 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Today, we sit down with our good friend Megan Basham to discuss everything going on with so-called "charitable" Christian organizations supposedly receiving government funding through USAID. We go over Christianity Today taking government grants and the left-leaning publications that followed as well as whether NGOs can truly call themselves Christian if they're taking secular funds to promote overseas abortions. And we also briefly go over Trump's most recent executive order banning men from competing in women's sports. Buy Megan's book, "Shepherds for Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded the Truth for a Leftist Agenda": https://a.co/d/6oH2sz0 Buy Allie's new book, "Toxic Empathy: How Progressives Exploit Christian Compassion": https://a.co/d/4COtBxy --- Timecodes: (02:10) Trump signs EO protecting women’s sports  (10:45) USAID funding for Christian organizations (20:40) World Relief and charities promoting birth control overseas (30:43) USAID enabling illegal immigration (40:47) Other charities receiving government funding (49:56) Trump rooting out anti-Christian bias (53:40) How Megan’s doing after her diagnosis --- Today's Sponsors: Patriot Mobile — go to PatriotMobile.com/ALLIE or call 972-PATRIOT and use promo code 'ALLIE' for a free month of service! America's Christian Credit Union — Switch to America's Christian Credit Union today for faith-aligned banking with exceptional rates and nationwide access. Visit https://www.americaschristiancu.com/allie to get started! --- Related Episodes: Ep 1134 | World Relief, USAID & the Nefarious Network of Humanitarian Aid https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-1134-world-relief-usaid-the-nefarious-network/id1359249098?i=1000689042415 Ep 1044 | Andy Stanley, Francis Collins & the Plot to End Evangelicalism | Guest: Megan Basham https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-1044-andy-stanley-francis-collins-the-plot-to-end/id1359249098?i=1000664069017 --- Buy Allie's book, You're Not Enough (& That's Okay): Escaping the Toxic Culture of Self-Love: https://alliebethstuckey.com/book Relatable merchandise – use promo code 'ALLIE10' for a discount: https://shop.blazemedia.com/collections/allie-stuckey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.1	Christianity today and other Christian organizations have been revealed to be receiving a lot of money from the very progressive
0:39.8	government entity USAID. We talked about USAID and the charity World Relief earlier this week
0:48.7	and some of the corruption that these institutions seem to be playing a part of. And now it seems like there are other
0:57.0	Christian organizations that are all a part of this scheme. Megan Basham, journalist and
1:03.6	author, is with us here today to uncover those details. But we've also got some amazing news
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1:46.8	Hey guys. Welcome to Relatable. Happy Thursday. I hope everyone is having a wonderful week so far. So if you are watching this, you can see that I am not in studio today. I am recording remotely. I mentioned earlier in the week that all of my kids have been hit with the flu, which is super sad. They are on the mend. But this morning when I woke up, I felt like I was
1:53.7	starting to get some symptoms. It's not super terrible yet, but I can feel it coming on. And so I just wanted to play it safe and record
2:04.6	from home today. But we've got a really big episode for you. I'm going to be joined by one of
2:10.8	your favorite guests in just a minute, Megan Basham to talk about all of the craziness with USAID
2:16.4	and Christianity Today and Be the Bridge and all of the craziness with USAID and Christianity today and Be the Bridge
2:19.6	and all of those entities that have been railing against conservatism, President Trump,
2:27.0	and really forms of conservative Christianity for a long time. But before we get into that, I just want to share some more
2:36.8	good news. I'm still just so excited every day by what Trump is accomplishing and by what he's doing.
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