Daily Wire reporter Megan Basham was presented with the 2024 Boniface Award from the Association of Classical Christian Schools (ACCS) last weekend for her “fearless and faithful journalism.” 

Basham, a regular fixture on The Daily Wire’s “Morning Wire” podcast, was honored with the award just weeks before her explosive new book “Shepherds for Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded the Truth for a Leftist Agenda” gets released on July 30. The book is already the #1 New Release in the “Christian Ministry” category on Amazon.  

The Daily Wire reporter received the Boniface Award at the 2024 Repairing the Ruins conference in Atlanta.

“Few things are more encouraging than the work of the Association of Classical Christian Schools, which is engaged in the best kind of troublemaking. The same kind of troublemaking Nehemiah was engaged in—rebuilding a culture that honors the transcendent, permanent things. And to be the recipient of the same award as Rosaria Butterfield, Voddie Baucham, Al Mohler, ADF President Michael Farris, and Doug Wilson is an honor I hardly feel deserving of, but am incredibly grateful for,” Basham wrote on X.  

Few things are more encouraging than the work of the Association of Classical Christian Schools, which is engaged in the best kind of troublemaking. The same kind of troublemaking Nehemiah was engaged in—rebuilding a culture that honors the transcendent, permanent things. And to… https://t.co/CO0uuRwstw

— Megan Basham (@megbasham) June 22, 2024

The ACCS is “the primary public advocate for classical Christian education.” The organization presents the Boniface Award to “a public figure who has stood faithfully for Christian truth, beauty, and goodness with grace.” 

“Like St. Boniface, recipients chose to publicly speak or act on a matter that could cost them personally. The award is presented at our annual ACCS conference, Repairing the Ruins, in June of each year,” ACCS says on its website. “To be nominated, the recipient will have, on one or more specific occasions, taken a stand for the Christian viewpoint, even in the face of negative public opinion. And, the recipient engaged in this action without bitterness and in a godly and grace-filled way.”

Basham has made a name for herself among Evangelicals for exposing the Left-ward drift among pastors and leaders in traditionally conservative Christian circles, such as the Southern Baptist Convention. From her reporting on Christianity Today’s staff donating extensively to Democrats to revealing how church leaders aligned themselves with Dr. Anthony Fauci during the COVID pandemic, conservative Christians have come to trust Basham’s straightforward writing.

Basham’s newest book focuses on how powerful leftists have influenced the American church. “Shepherds for Sale” is available for pre-order now on Amazon. 

The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a challenge to Tennessee’s ban on transgender medical services for children.

The justices will weigh an appeals court ruling that upheld the state’s ban on puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and gender surgery for minors.

The court will take up the case during its next term, which starts in October and ends in June of next year.

Depending on the ruling, the decision could affect not only Tennessee’s ban but other state bans on the same transgender medical interventions for minors.

More than 20 states with Republican-led legislatures have similar bans.

This is not the first time the high court has waded into the raging controversies around trans-identifying minors. In April, the court allowed Idaho to enforce its ban on transgender medical interventions for minors except on the two teenagers who sued over the law.

However, the court has avoided many other previous opportunities to get involved in the culture war issue.

The plaintiffs in the Tennessee case, which include trans-identifying teens and their families, claim the state’s ban violates the Constitution’s 14th Amendment, which requires that everyone is equally treated under the law, by preventing them from accessing medical treatments that are available to others. They also claim the ban violates parental rights to make health care decisions for their children.

So far, federal appeals courts have been divided on whether state bans on these transgender medical interventions for children are unconstitutional.

In the Tennessee case, a federal district judge initially blocked the ban. Then the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals combined the Tennessee case with a similar case out of Kentucky and ruled in favor of the bans.

“This is a relatively new diagnosis with ever-shifting approaches to care over the last decade or two. Under these circumstances, it is difficult for anyone to be sure about predicting the long-term consequences of abandoning age limits of any sort for these treatments,” wrote Jeffrey Sutton for the 6th Circuit.

The Biden administration then joined the lawsuit against Tennessee and urged the Supreme Court to take up the case, saying the court’s opinion was “urgently needed” since the confusion among federal courts has resulted in “profound uncertainty.”

“Absent this Court’s review, families in Tennessee and other States where laws like SB1 have taken effect will face the loss of essential medical care,” the Justice Department wrote in a petition to the Supreme Court.

Both puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones come with serious health risks. Puberty blockers can affect bone growth and density and cause sexual dysfunction, voice damage, and infertility, among other issues. Cross-sex hormones can cause infertility, deadly blood clots, heart attacks, increased cancer risks of the breasts and ovaries, liver dysfunction, worsening psychological illness, and other serious conditions.

Gender surgeries like phalloplasty, vaginoplasty, and double mastectomy are irreversible and often come with serious complications.