Brandon Showalter
Opinion writer and social commentator
Brandon M. Showalter is a journalist and podcaster with The Christian Post who has reported extensively on topics of theological interest in the Church; bioethics issues such as euthanasia, assisted suicide, artificial reproductive technology, and surrogacy; and the developments of the "gender identity" movement and transgender ideology.
He was first inspired to pursue into a career in writing and journalism while mopping floors and scrubbing toilets as a church custodian in April 2015.
He earned a bachelor's degree in international studies and Spanish from Bridgewater College of Virginia in 2007, a Master of Arts in human rights from The Catholic University of America in 2022, and is a fellow of the John Jay Institute for Faith, Society, & Law. He is also a graduate (class of 2015) of a three-year, non-degree program at Bethel School of Ministry in Redding, California.
His favorite thing to do in life is to sing.
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No, Washington Post, you can’t memory-hole your support for trans insanity
Dear Washington Post editorial board, if you’re genuinely trying to break free from the clutches of transgenderism, let me help you out here with a fresh, heaping helping of unwavering clarity.
The reckoning of trans-ing kids: Most pressing pastoral care issue of our time
If anything unites a cross-section of Americans of all political stripes, it’s the medical scandal of so-called “gender-affirming care” for children.
With Trump as president again, is gender ideology facing its end?
When I asked her about the cross-partisan dynamics among the struggling parents in an online support group she's a part of, she told me: “Nobody cares about politics anymore, Brandon. We just want to save our kids.”
A colossal backfire against the trans industry
Rarely do I read legal opinions that put a smile on my face.
Unmasking ruthless spiritual warfare of transgenderism
The elite chattering class, which sadly includes much of the Christian intelligentsia in academia, seems to either ignore these issues or dismiss them as unimportant and it has left me and countless families I know stunned and bewildered.
CP docu-podcast season 4: Gender ideology meets resistance
When The Christian Post leadership asked me to co-produce a documentary podcast about gender ideology in the fall of 2022, I had no idea what it would yield.
The Song of Songs as tonic for religious abuse : A review of Aimee Byrd’s ‘The Hope In Our Scars’
In the fall of 2019, The Christian Post published an in-depth article series called “Leaving Christianity” and it was, in my view, some of the most illuminating and sobering reporting we’ve ever done.
The remarkable courage of whistleblowers exposing trans-medical crimes
Then, as now, speaking uncomfortable truths and putting one’s life and livelihood at risk is never pleasant.
The Supreme Court’s upcoming decision on trans-ing children hangs on Neil Gorsuch
The Supreme Court taking up L.W. v. Skrmetti is an important step in the long-awaited reckoning over what many, myself included, believe is some of the most atrocious child abuse and monstrous medical scandals in history.
I became a gym rat. Why I encourage young men to do likewise
Ten years ago, I was a skinny bag of bones. At age 29, I was 6 feet, 7 inches tall and I weighed 175 pounds.
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