Megan Basham: Simultaneously Battling Culture and Cancer

The Daily Wire’s Megan Basham isn’t one to shy away from a challenge — and she’s currently facing two monumental ones at the same time.

Formerly a reporter for World Magazine, the popular socially conservative Christian commentator is the author of two books: Beside Every Successful Man: Getting the Life You Want by Helping Your Husband Get Ahead (Crown Forum, 2009), and Shepherds for Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded the Truth for a Leftist Agenda (HarperCollins, 2024).

Every writer is a product of their personal history, and the Southern Baptist Basham comes at her subjects and topics with the fervor and sincerity of someone who has been on both an ideological and spiritual journey.

Writing for First Things in 2022, Megan shared that it was in college when, not unlike many her age, she threw off the “moral restraints of my Christian upbringing.” She explained: 

“I experimented with all manner of substances and licentiousness—even with feminist theory, which almost proved intellectually fatal. I was at work on a term paper excoriating the patriarchal and oppressive Promise Keepers movement when an encounter with the Lancelot-Grail awoke my long-anesthetized conscience.”

Ironically it was in the study and writing of that assignment when the penny dropped for her, where she was convicted by how “careless” she had been with her faith and Christian testimony. 

In her role at the Daily Wire, Megan has a lot to say about a lot of things. Following her on X can be an eye-opening reminder of man’s depravity. Culture never stops churning and spinning, and sometimes it can be difficult to keep up. Like we do at the Daily Citizen, Megan Basham wades through all the news so you don’t necessarily have to. 

Although she doesn’t quibble with suggestions that she’s a happy warrior in the “culture war” she’s also been wise to define the term. She retweeted last year:

“By ‘culture war’ many really mean: disagreeing with the left on anything publicly.”

But Megan Basham is also embroiled in a war of another kind, and a very personal one at that: cancer.

Originally diagnosed with Stage III colon cancer just after Thanksgiving in 2024, the Daily Wire commentator underwent chemo-radiation therapy. As she was able, she kept working, writing, and posting.

Megan Basham is married and has two children, so she kept on mothering, too: school assignments, dance recitals, church activities.

This past August, she shared the good news that follow-up scans found no evidence of the disease. 

But then came another scan late last year of an abnormality in the lung. It was suspicious of cancer. She shared on X:

“My oncologists have encouraged me not to panic, because it’s just the one, we will get it removed, and they are assuring me that all Stage Four is not the same and I can still reach long-term remission, so that’s what we’re praying for!

“Living the life of a Christian doesn’t mean you don’t have hard days or news like this won’t cause you to spend a few days curled up like Elijah … But it does mean that you wrestle through it with the Lord. And you take these disappointments and fears to Him, the great Physician, knowing that He is ultimately the only one who can heal spiritually, emotionally, and physically.”

Over the weekend, Basham tweeted an update that a follow-up test found no tumor DNA circulating in her blood. She writes, “That suggests no additional hiding nasties in there and I’m still on a curative path. Thank you to all of you praying. It means more to my family and I than I could ever express.”

Megan Basham then got back to tweeting and working.

That’s one of the peculiar yet ageless aspects of health and other concerns that threaten to consume us. Whether we get a cancer diagnosis, are praying through a prodigal child who is far from the Lord or caring for an elderly parent — the many challenges of life still go on. We are all simultaneously battling wars on many fronts.

This is why God’s Word provides reams of counsel for “keeping on keeping on” when it comes to the many challenges we all face. Wrote the Apostle Paul, “Therefore we do not lose heart… For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all” (2 Cor. 4:16-18). James struck a similar chord: “Consider it pure joy… whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance” (James 1:2-4). 

Please join us in praying for Megan Basham — for healing and strength, and for resolve and renewed vigor as she continues to answer the personal and professional calls the Lord has placed on her life.