The idea that a lack of power excuses wilful, knowing sin is found nowhere in the Bible. Quite the opposite. Megan Basham

The BioLogos vaccine pledge was just the beginning of [Francis] Collins’s campaign to use churches to convince average people in the pews to comply with government orders. He also leveraged the relationships he had with key church leaders and relied on herd respectability to cow the rest. Megan Basham

Thanks to the single-issue voters who cast ballots for Donald Trump, tens of thousands of babies are alive today who otherwise would have been fed to the abortion machine. And the way has been made so that many millions more may yet find rescue. Megan Basham

These attempts to name anything and everything a pro-life issue only serve to minimise the unique horror of abortion, which has taken more than fifty million lives in the United States since 1973—three times the number killed in the Nazi, Soviet, Rwandan, and Cambodian genocides combined. There is no moral equivalent. Megan Basham

Pastor Rick Warren boasts of his role as a “global influencer” to the United Nations and the World Economic Forum.25 Christianity Today’s editor in chief, Russell Moore, opens his latest book26 with an off-topic recollection of being a guest at President Obama’s White House Christmas party. Is it a coincidence that both these men now habitually push progressive views that directly conflict with the feelings of the men and women the media claims they represent? Megan Basham

When the guy who created the Christian children’s program VeggieTales starts arguing that evangelicals should take a more “nuanced” position on abortion,23 and when two successive presidents of the Southern Baptist Convention say the Bible only “whispers” about sexual sins,24 something is badly off in mainstream evangelicalism. Megan Basham

Whether it’s the LGBTQ movement, climate change, or illegal immigration, again and again, polling research shows that evangelicals still stand as a fortress in the way of the political left. Megan Basham

If churchgoers can be convinced there’s something shameful and unchristian in bringing their values to the democratic process, first, it will blunt their influence on the culture. Second, they will be distracted from noticing the secular left’s long and well-documented history of infiltrating churches and buying influence among church leaders—a history that still marches on today. Megan Basham

I will not be disheartened or weakened in my spirit because the completed healings haven’t happened yet. In fact, I resolve to believe and decree even that much more! Rachel Shafer