Which seems to be, honestly, a heaping measure of Cope, pressed down, shaken together, spilling out over Twitter. For, au contraire dear Pastor Miller, both Jesus and John Wayne and Shepherds For Sale are a very big deal. J & JW did spawn a whole movement of deconstruction. Du Mez shaped a version of American Christianity that, for far too many people “explained everything.” Worse, she castigated the sheep for clinging to their old, faithful religion while opening the gate for apostasy and the embrace of the lgbtq heresy. On the other end of the scale, in SFS (for that is what I am calling Shepherds For Sale, given what a very very big deal it is) Basham exposes the rotten corruption enfeebling Christians all over America. Day after day, Christians have watched their leaders sell away the Gospel for Climate Change, Revoice, the And Campaign, Critical Theory, and the gentle scolding of Francis Collins. Sunday after Sunday they’ve endured bad preaching and watered-down Sunday school.