Megan Basham’s new book Shepherds for Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded the Truth for a Leftist Agenda briefly notes that the Arcus Foundation from 2013-2018 gave $2 million to the LGBTQ advocacy group Reconciling Ministries Network, which worked to liberalize church teaching on marriage and sex in the United Methodist Church. Since the church split over sexuality, she surmises the money was “well spent.” (This part of her book is excerpted here.)
As my friend Karen Booth wrote in her 2012 book Forgetting How to Blush: United Methodism’s Compromise with the Sexual Revolution, the Arcus Foundation was already giving RMN hundreds of thousands of dollars prior to 2013. In 2009 and 2011, there were grants of $300,000. In 2007, there was a $100,000 grant.
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