Megan Basham

In the year before his death, Charlie Kirk increasingly raised the alarm about the progressive drift in America’s Christian colleges and seminaries. He particularly focused his warnings on one of the largest and most trusted evangelical universities in the country — Southern California’s Biola University. In one exchange during a stop on his 2024 Brainwashed Tour, he argued that the school had “slipped in its stature as a Christian school” because many of the students graduating “do not believe in the core tenets of the Christian faith.” “There’s a lot of deconstructionism in the last five years that has been introduced at Biola,” Kirk said.The recent Biola grad who asked the question looked perplexed as he stood squinting in front of TPUSA’s iconic “Prove Me Wrong” tent on the sunny University of Nevada quad. He said this wasn’t an accurate summary. In his experience, Biola was as Christian and conservative as it had ever been. While Biola’s administration maintains this same

Though Billy Graham said he founded Christianity Today in 1956 to offer a conservative alternative to the liberal Christian Century, his magazine has developed a reputation for trending toward the Left, with its editorial staff making donations to Democrats. Despite that, Christianity Today has always claimed it maintains a pro-life ethic. But financial records unearthed after Christian publisher Canon Press offered to buy the magazine call that commitment into question, showing that it is being heavily funded by a massive left-wing organization that spends millions to support the nation’s leading abortion advocate, Planned Parenthood.Since 2022, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation has become a major patron of Christianity Today, donating well over $1,000,000 to the outlet, records show. Included in the contributions is $400,000 for general operating support, $75,000 to develop a mobile app, and $600,000 to cover U.S. elections. This makes Hewlett one of the magazine’s top disclosed donors, even

In 2016, Russell Moore, then head of the political lobbying arm of the largest Protestant denomination in the United States, wrote in The Washington Post that Donald Trump had “snuffed out” the “Religious Right.”Support for Trump, Moore argued, had so discredited the old moral majority establishment that the next generation of evangelicals would throw off the misguided notion that they should engage in political activism to ensure that the nation’s laws and customs reflect Christian values. “They are not replicating themselves in the next generation,” Moore said with blithe assurance of the James Dobsons and Jerry Falwells of yesteryear. “The evangelical next generation rejects their way.”Instead, Moore said, younger Christians would be so put off by the partisanship of their forebears that they would embrace the death of cultural Christianity and resign themselves to being a religious minority. Beautiful losers, so to speak.Moore was joined in this view by a number of evangelical luminaries

The brutal murder of a 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee on a North Carolina bus has become a flashpoint in national discussions about urban safety, with President Donald Trump weighing in on the tragedy.“I give my love and hope to the family of the young woman who was stabbed in Charlotte by a madman, a lunatic,” Trump said in a speech at the Museum of the Bible on Monday. “Just viciously stabbed, she’s just sitting there.”“There are evil people,” the president added. “We have to be able to handle that. If we don’t handle that, we don’t have a country.”The victim, Iryna Zarutska, came to the United States in 2022. She was returning from her job at a local pizzeria when Decarlos Brown stabbed her repeatedly in the neck. The video of the attack is profoundly disturbing and has circulated widely online, amplifying concerns about Charlotte’s escalating violent crime.According to recent data, the city experienced a 25% increase in homicides last year — the second-high

This summer marked the end of an era in American Christianity. Within weeks of each other, pastor John MacArthur and psychologist James Dobson, two of the most influential evangelical leaders of the past half-century, passed away. MacArthur died on July 14 at the age of 86, followed by his friend Dobson on August 21 at 89. Their distinct but complementary approaches to faith and culture reshaped churches, families, and politics in profound ways.Both men launched their ministries into the national spotlight in 1977, debuting radio programs at a time when evangelical broadcasting was entering a golden age. MacArthur’s verse-by-verse exposition of Scripture with “Grace to You” and Dobson’s biblical counsel on marriage and parenting with “Focus on the Family” would eventually reach tens of millions of households across the globe.Troy Miller, president of the National Religious Broadcasters, told The Daily Wire that both men not only mastered radio but also foresaw the digital transitio

Dr. James Dobson, the influential Christian psychologist and Focus on the Family founder, died Thursday at age 89. The Dr. James Dobson Family Institute announced that Dobson had passed away in Colorado Springs following a brief illness.A seminal proponent of family values in the 1980s and 90s who served as advisor to five Presidents, Dobson helped mobilize a conservative movement on issues like abortion, pornography, and gay marriage.Born on April 21, 1936, in Shreveport, Louisiana, Dobson was the son of Myrtle Georgia and James Clayton Dobson Sr., both of whom were prominent figures in the Nazarene Church. Raised in a devout Christian household, he developed an early passion for understanding human behavior and faith. Dobson earned a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Pasadena College (now Point Loma Nazarene University) in 1958 and later a PhD in Child Development from the University of Southern California in 1967, laying the foundation for his influential career.Dobson’s national breakthrough came i

In 2020, as state authorities across the country were closing down churches and dictating worship practices — No singing! No more than fifty people! — my editor at a Christian magazine offered me an assignment. Would I interview renowned preacher John MacArthur, who at that time was making national headlines for opposing California Governor Gavin Newsom’s shutdown orders?I could not have said “yes” faster.My editor was unaware, but from the time I became a Christian some 20 years earlier, no public figure’s work had meant more to my life. No ministry had shaped me in greater ways than his international radio and podcast ministry, Grace to You. Like millions of other Christians around the world, his daily teachings had been the backdrop of mundane domestic tasks, long car rides, and sleepless nights. His books were the first resources I turned to when dealing with a crisis or trial. When I received a Stage 3 colon cancer diagnosis, his messages on suffering and prayer played through the wee

On the surface, Victoria Sinis is indistinguishable from so many other marketing professionals.Young, vivacious, and personable, the twenty-something Australian seems like she does PR for a cosmetics company or a trendy tech startup.But Sinis’ job was something else entirely. For eight months, she trolled social media sites for girls who seemed underage or “barely legal,” and coaxed them into posting explicit content on OnlyFans.The job was easier than it may seem. All she had to do was lie.“If we had approached them with the truth and said, ‘Hey, do you want to sign up to do porn? We’ll take 20% of your income. You’re probably not going to earn a lot. You’re going to have to do some really extreme things. You’d be like, ‘No!’” Sinis told The Daily Wire.Instead, she and the other recruiters messaged potential porn performers about their positive “vibe,” and invited them to lavish parties on yachts or fly them in to stay at villas in exotic locales.Recruiters “show girls

Andrew Klavan’s new book arrived in my inbox with providential timing. Only a few hours before I started perusing The Kingdom of Cain: Finding God in the Literature of Darkness, I’d signed a publishing contract for my first novel — a story of murder, prostitution, and the many debased things that fallen man is willing to do in pursuit of his ambitions.But a tiny part of me blushed at the plot I was preparing to put down on paper — what would compel a Christian, a self-professed church lady no less, to tell such a sordid tale?  What compels other Christians to read them? Klavan, as might be expected from an award-winning crime writer and very public Christ-follower, has long been thinking about such questions and now provides an answer.“We should look at the question from the other direction,” Klavan says, “what good does it do anybody to write about the world as it’s not?” And the world, as he details through the true stories of three notorious killers — including history’s first ki

Illinois’ Wheaton College has long traded on its reputation as a doctrinally conservative Christian institution. Its landing page promises prospective students that they will “find [their] Christ-centered calling” at the school. And its alumni list reads like who’s who of evangelical leaders. But the college is unwilling to honor the accomplishments of one famous son ...