Ethnic narcissism: The hidden danger in modern church culture



Ethnic narcissism has infiltrated modern church culture, and it’s much more insidious than those who embody or celebrate it seem to understand.

“I think we can celebrate our differences, but when you’re talking amongst the brethren, we don’t need to ignore our ethnic differences, but we also don’t need to elevate them to a level of what I would call ethnic idolatry or narcissism — ethnic narcissism,” Christian content creator April Chapman tells BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey on “Relatable.”

Chapman explains that “ethnic narcissism” is where you view the world through an ethnic lens.

“Why are you looking at the world in that way? That is something that the pagans do, the unbeliever, because they don’t have an identity that’s hidden in Christ. They don’t have their sins atoned for,” she says.


While we can acknowledge that we’re different, Chapman explains, elevating something like race to “an unhealthy level” where “we’re now levying charges of sin against others who look different than us” is not right — and Stuckey wholeheartedly agrees.

“I just remember seeing this a lot in 2020 from the pulpit. There was one message of guilt that was given to white congregants and one message that was given to black congregants, and that message was one of alleviating any responsibility for anything at all that they themselves have done,” Stuckey recalls.

“And then for the white congregants, it wasn’t only responsibility for what you have done, but also, you should feel some level of shame and guilt for what some people — not even related to you, but that kind of maybe looked like you — 200 years ago did,” she continues.

“I just thought, okay, I don’t see a biblical basis for that, especially when we’re talking about justice, which is inherently supposed to be blind,” she adds.

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Therapist-in-training exposes nauseating secrets from the world of counselor education



Naomi Epps Best is a married Christian mother and graduate student in marriage and family therapy at Santa Clara University. Like anyone who enters the counseling profession, she wants to help people thrive.

Sadly, in today’s world, helping people thrive is often synonymous with affirming their delusions. On a recent episode of “Relatable,” Naomi sat down with Allie Beth Stuckey to share what future therapists are being taught about gender identity and care for minors.

“We were taught that if a child comes to us and they are experiencing extreme gender-related distress,” it is our “ethical obligation ... to affirm them in their belief and to not act as a gatekeeper for their medical treatment,” says Naomi. “That is what I am taught at [Santa Clara University], and that is what is being propagated down from the psychological governing bodies in this country.”

“I've talked to so many de-transitioners,” says Allie, “and every single one says that there was a therapist who didn't ask questions that checked off the boxes” and “uncritically affirm[ed]” their gender of choice. And even if the child also suffers from anorexia, bipolar disorder, or autism, the therapist is obligated to “ignore all of that, and say, ‘Yes, here is your letter of recommendation to go on puberty blockers, cross- sex hormones, [or] get your breasts cut off.”’

“Yes, exactly,” says Naomi. “[That methodology] is by design in this profession, and there are great therapists out there, who will ask deeper questions and will walk with a child who has gender dysphoria and provide them good care, but those individuals are going against the ethical standards and guidelines in our profession, and they're taking a risk by doing that.”

Earlier this month, Naomi published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal criticizing Santa Clara University’s Marriage and Family Therapy program, particularly its required human sexuality course. The article, titled “Santa Clara University’s Crazy Idea of Human Sexuality,” exposed explicit and coercive practices like assigning sadomasochistic erotica and mandatory sexual autobiographies, alongside ideological bias, unprofessional conduct, and racial stereotyping. Best argued these elements, coupled with denied accommodations, ethical violations, and retaliations against her, prioritize political agendas over neutral clinical training.

Just days after the article’s publication, Naomi was fired from her therapy internship. But before that, she was “summoned to a 15-on-one struggle meeting,” where her fellow “therapists-in-training” launched “character attacks” at her.

“These people called me unsafe. They called me a danger to the profession,” she tells Allie.

To hear more of Naomi’s wild story about what’s going on in the world of therapy education in our country, watch the episode above.

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From racism claims to pregnancy conspiracy theories — why Meghan Markle is ‘really messy’



Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been dominating headlines ever since their highly publicized departure from the royal family. And while much of their actions depict a couple who have cast themselves as the victims in their story — the public doesn’t seem to be buying it.

In fact, they appear to despise Prince Harry’s choice in wife.

Journalist Jessica Reed Kraus of House Inhabit, who has intensely covered their evolving story, believes the public is right in their assessment.

“I think it’s justified, because I do watch them so closely, I watched how it happened, and I saw mistake after mistake being made on their end,” Kraus tells BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey on “Relatable.”


“There’s a lack of self awareness there,” she continues, noting that to “publicly drag the family into that whole drama of the racism claims” was just “really messy.”

Markle became the center of tabloid drama across the world after sitting down with Oprah Winfrey for an interview and telling her that a member of the royal family expressed "concerns" to Harry about the color of her unborn child’s skin.

Winfrey responded with an astonished, “What?”

“I think that sort of set a really bad tone, where it’s like they were trying to break free, but they looked miserable while they were doing it. Like you want privacy, but then you actually want documentaries and podcasts and all these things, so I think nothing about them seems genuine, and when you don’t seem genuine at all, people don’t take you seriously,” Kraus says.

Markle also went viral recently for a video taken of her dancing in the hospital room while pregnant, where many viewers pointed out that her baby bump didn’t look natural, speculating that it could be fake.

“I don’t mind the criticism of her, but sometimes I’m like, OK, people are just looking for things to come up with,” Stuckey tells Kraus.

“Not all these conspiracies I like. I don’t like the fake pregnancy stuff, that was definitely her pregnant in the hospital to me, I thought it was sort of cringey,” Kraus says, adding, “because again, they made such a big deal about privacy, but now you’re releasing your most private home videos for the internet to see.”

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Dark politics changed her mind about Christianity



After covering a little too much darkness in the world, journalist Jessica Reed Kraus of House Inhabit has opened her Bible and started on a spiritual journey.

And BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey is not only thrilled to hear it but well-aware that encountering darkness can often lead someone to the light.

“I hear from a lot of people who previously, they didn’t believe, or maybe they were just agnostic, and they didn’t know that it was actually seeing evil, in whatever context, some people it’s Hollywood, for some people it’s politics, for some people it’s in their own life, that kind of turns the light on,” Stuckey tells Kraus on “Relatable.”

“And they’re like, ‘Oh, if there’s objective evil and darkness, then there must be objective goodness and light too,’” she adds.


“Absolutely,” Kraus agrees. “That’s sort of an underlying theme now, is good and evil and darkness and light and what you’re giving your energy to.”

Some of the darkness she had seen prior to beginning her spiritual journey is attributed to covering celebrities like Britney Spears, whose fall from grace has served as entertainment for the masses — and one she could no longer cover after a certain point.

“When it weighs me in a negative and sort of a dark way, I will usually kind of back away,” she says.

However, Kraus didn’t always feel drawn to the Bible, as growing up around liberals, the topic of God was “shunned.”

“You just kind of instinctively know not to bring up God and religion,” she explains, noting that when she was working on the campaign trail with the Trump team and the Kennedy team, it couldn’t have been more different, and people were very open with prayer and faith.

“It felt like it was a really cool thing to witness,” she adds.

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Parents beware: Horrific safety breaches in two popular childcare services



Boasting millions of users globally, Care.com is a leading platform for caregiving services, including childcare, senior care, pet care, and housekeeping. While this matching service may be a convenient way to book a quick babysitter, there’s something all users — but especially parents — need to know about the platform.

A few years ago, an independent journalist named Edwin Dorsey dug into Care.com after his friend, who was a babysitter on the platform, told him something didn’t feel right about the company. Dorsey set to work experimenting with the website. It wasn’t long before it became crystal clear that Care.com wasn’t at all what people thought it was.

On a recent episode of “Relatable,” Dorsey joined Allie Beth Stuckey to share his dark findings.

“Care.com claimed to be a very safe place to look for babysitters, and they claimed to be running background checks,” says Dorsey. But when he did his own experiment signing up to be a babysitter, it became clear that the background checks were a myth.

“The way I tested their process is by trying to sign up as Harvey Weinstein, who was in the news a lot at the time. So I used a photo of Harvey Weinstein, I used the email harveythebabysitter@gmail.com, I made up a social security number, ... and I consented to their background check on Care.com to be a licensed babysitter,” he recounts. “And to my amazement, I was approved.”

To make sure it wasn’t some one-off fluke, Dorsey applied to be a babysitter using the alias “Daffy Duck,” and again he was approved. “They're telling parents they're running background checks. They're charging people for background checks, and then they're not running the background checks,” he tells Allie.

When Dorsey wrote up these disturbing findings in an article that went viral, Care.com “called [his] college to get [him] in trouble” and “sent some legal letter to [his] parents' house.” But this only made Dorsey “dig in more.”

“So then I went to every state attorney general to get consumer complaints people had filed on Care.com, and I saw tons of safety issues,” he says. “I even go to some police departments, and I ask for all 911 calls that had Care.com mentioned in the transcript because I want to see how extensive all these abuses are.”

This digging resulted in shocking revelations.

“There’s a lot of people who had criminal histories who were approved to babysit on Care.com. There's a lot of people who had their kids taken away from them who then go become babysitters on Care.com. There's people who've been banned from running day cares who are listing their services on Care.com. There's people with DUIs and battery charges advertising themselves on Care.com — all unbeknownst to parents,” says Dorsey.

“Ultimately, there were eight kids who were given to Care.com babysitters with criminal histories, where the parents didn't know, and the kids ended up dying,” he adds.

Dorsey ultimately linked up with Gregory Zuckerman at the Wall Street Journal, who turned his research on Care.com into a front-page exposé.

Sadly, the disturbing events Dorsey uncovered aren’t isolated to the Care.com platform. Today, Dorsey is reporting on another caregiving service — KinderCare, a chain of childcare and early education centers in the U.S. serving military families and receiving tax dollars through government subsidies for low-income families.

His investigations have exposed issues such as toddlers escaping onto busy roads, children being left alone in locked buildings or buses, and allegations of physical, verbal, and sexual abuse at KinderCare facilities. And yet these stories are getting “literally zero media reporting,” he says.

To hear more about Dorsey’s investigations, watch the clip above.

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The sun isn’t toxic — but your sunscreen probably is



Founder of Primally Pure Bethany McDaniel has made it her mission to create efficient skincare products that do no harm in a market oversaturated with chemical poisons that do more harm than good.

Primally Pure sunscreen boasts all of the protection needed from the sun without the toxic chemicals and doesn’t rely on fearmongering about the sun as the main source of messaging, like most sunscreens do.

“The sun isn’t poison, but your sunscreen is,” reads one Primally Pure billboard.

However, that statement upset a lot of people and has now become the center of serious debate.

“The intention with it was to make a bold statement, get people’s attention,” McDaniel tells BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey on “Relatable.” “There have been so many bold statements for decades from the side of ‘slather sunscreen all over your body every second of the day so that you won’t get skin cancer and die.’”



While McDaniel wanted to point out that there’s much more nuance to the topic of sun exposure and sunscreen than we’ve previously been told, when their ad was released, people didn’t see it that way.

Rather, they saw her ad as “fearmongering,” despite the sunscreen industry using skin cancer as a reason to avoid the sun.

“There’s a lot of misinterpretation of the campaign itself, a lot of anger, like some crazy people are saying some crazy things on social media. There was one post that I reposted of a very unhinged woman telling me to go to hell for saying this,” she tells Stuckey.

“How have we gotten to a point where that is such a controversial thing to say? Like we have demonized the sun and demonized creation so much,” she continues. “I know I’ve been accused of fearmongering, but I would argue that people have fearmongered the sun for so long.”

Since the negative impact of spending time in the sun has been discussed endlessly, very few people seem to be aware of how incredible the benefits are.

“It gives us Vitamin D, it helps with our moods. We all feel it when we’re outside in the sun — we feel better. It regulates our circadian rhythms so that we’re more awake during the day and that our bodies are ready to sleep when the sun falls at night,” McDaniel explains.

“There’s so much to living in tune with the sun. I think that’s how we’re designed to live, but I also think there are risks to uninhibited sun exposure,” she continues.

Which is why McDaniel created her own sunscreen that uses a formula with 25% zinc oxide and nontoxic natural ingredients.

“In my opinion, zinc oxide is the safest option for sun protection. There are a lot of chemical filters out there, but the FDA now does not recognize any of them as being safe. The EPA also just came out with a study and found that only 25% of sunscreens on the market are both safe and effective,” she explains.

“So these chemical filters — there’s a lot of issues with them. They absorb, and then they are in the bloodstream at much higher limits than is considered safe. A lot of them are known to be hormone-disrupting and carcinogenic, or cancer-causing. They actually create a chemical reaction in the skin when the sun hits it,” she continues.

“The fearmongering thing really gets me, because this is just sharing information,” she adds.

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Newsom’s ‘spirit of darkness’: How this ministry is showing Los Angeles the light



Two weeks into the pandemic, founder of the Dream Center in Los Angeles Matthew Barnett was driving through the empty streets when California’s lockdown policy was announced.

“They said only essential workers can come and be involved with whatever they need to do, and I thought to myself, and I did the calculation,” Barnett tells BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey on “Relatable.” “We’ve given probably about $1.2 billion of aid to the community over the years, and so I just kind of deemed myself to be an essential worker.”

“So, just kind of blindly and just smiling, I just showed up and said, ‘We’re going to feed people.’ And people started showing up and putting stuff in people’s cars, and everyone’s like, ‘You can’t be doing this. They can’t be doing this,’” he continues.

“It kind of blew up, went viral all across the country, and people started showing up, and even some of the same politicians that told you not to do it, they were like, ‘I think I need to go down and get a photo op,’” he explains.


Through doing this, Barnett noticed that there was a "culture of fear," and most people were terrified.

And some of them had a right to be afraid, particularly the children in the housing projects whose social workers were no longer allowed to check in on them due to COVID policies.

That’s when the Dream Center took over for them — and what they saw in the name of safety was anything but safe.

“We saw kids joining gangs at a higher rate. We saw kids hungry. We saw a lot of pedophiles in the community that were taking advantage of them being home every single day. We saw food programs that were shut down to help the kids in the school system,” he tells Stuckey.

“So many policies — COVID policies, law enforcement policies, drug policies — are done in the name of compassion. They say that they are the ones that are actually helping the marginalized and the truly vulnerable,” Stuckey comments.

Barnett recalls one of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s comments regarding those "compassionate" drug policies that helped him realize there was no relying on the government to truly help those in need.

“One of the most discouraging statements ever made by our governor is when he said, ‘It’s irresponsible or reckless to think that somebody can truly live sober,’” he tells Stuckey.

“When I heard that comment, I’m like, we’ve given up, we have no belief that people can change, we have no belief that people can escape darkness,” he continues. “It was almost like something that was said that came from the spirit of darkness.”

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Whistleblower exposes forced sexual rituals at Catholic university



Naomi Epps Best is a Christian graduate student at Santa Clara University studying family and marriage counseling — and what she was forced to partake in was so inappropriate that she wrote a Wall Street Journal op-ed sounding the alarm about her experience.

“One of the final classes I have to do to graduate is called human sexuality, and that is a requirement for marriage and family therapists in California,” Best tells BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey on “Relatable.”

“But when I first enrolled in this course in summer of 2024, I dug into the syllabus, and I was shocked by the sexual ethic that was being not just presented but promoted. I immediately discovered sadomasochistic erotica,” she explains.

Sadomasochism is when people derive pleasure from inflicting pain on another person, or when people derive pleasure from being hurt.


When Best was forced to read an erotic story that went into disturbing detail as an example of this subject, she was told that it was “an inoculation to sexual content that we might one day come across.”

Even worse, Best was put into a group of four people, including a man, and they were told to “discuss their masturbation.”

“I said no,” she tells Stuckey. “Also in that class, the final exam was an 8-to-10-page comprehensive sexual autobiography. So they were asking us to answer questions like, ‘When did we first start masturbating?,’ ‘What are key sexual moments in our history?,’ ‘Detail our sexual past,’ and ‘What are our erotic goals for the future, and how will we achieve those?’”

“So, when I read that, I said, ‘I’m not writing my sexual inventory for anybody to read.’ So I tried to get an accommodation, and I was denied. The chair said that this requirement has been in place since the 1980s,” Best explains, noting that it’s a violation of the American Psychological Association’s ethical codes.

“As well, there was a pornographic illustration guide that was openly hostile to the Christian faith. It was written, quote, ‘as revenge for my Catholic upbringing,’” she continues. “There were just crude illustrations of all sorts of sex acts with however many number of people, and I didn’t want to read that. I think that it is probably illegal to force me to consume pornography.”

Not only was Best disturbed by the content, but she confirms to Stuckey that it was “purposefully titillating” material.

“So it was supposed to be turning people on,” Stuckey says, disgusted. “I mean, this is what pornography does — it rewires your brain to desire certain things.”

“I mean, the teachers just sound like perverts, and they’re forcing their students to play along in their fetishes. That’s what it sounds like,” she adds.

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Higher rates of autism? The harsh reality of being an IVF baby



In-vitro fertilization is sold as a cure-all for those struggling with fertility issues — but not only does it rarely work, it also can cause a myriad of issues in the mother and child when it does.

Jennifer Lahl, founder of the Center for Bioethics and Culture Network, is one of the leading voices sounding the alarm.

“IVF is fraught with risk. It’s risky to the woman’s health; it’s risky to the health of the unborn child,” Lahl tells BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey on “Relatable.” “You can just follow the CDC data, and for the last 10-plus years, overwhelmingly, all IVF cycles fail.”

Data is now coming out that IVF increases the chance of pregnancy-related complications, like preterm labor and birth defects.


“My grandson was born with a heart defect. And when his care was transferred to a big university hospital in California, two independent pediatric cardiologists there said, ‘Is he an IVF baby?’ He’s not, but in the medical literature, IVF babies have much higher rates of congenital heart defects at birth,” Lahl explains.

“Shouldn’t that be something that at least could make us pause and think? We know that pregnancy is risky; I know that, you know, any child that’s born healthy, praise God, because there’s a lot of things that can go wrong to make children born with all kinds of defects, but knowingly doing it, I think, is problematic,” she continues.

Stuckey has also done her research on the issues associated with IVF, and one of them is a higher prevalence of the child being diagnosed with autism.

“Specifically because there was a fertility problem on the father’s part. So that is because say a dad has basically immobile sperm. They’re just not fast enough, strong enough, to do what they have to do in the natural fertility reproduction process,” Stuckey says, noting that in IVF they “take the sperm and put it on the egg.”

“There is a reason that that sperm isn’t working. There’s an underlying issue there that will affect the baby that is born, because those sperm weren’t supposed to re-create, and when you force them to re-create, then the baby is going to inherit a lot of problems,” she adds.

“People like to say, ‘We’re playing God,’ and I always say, ‘Well, no, because God doesn’t play that way. We’re playing naughty people,'” Lahl agrees.

“There’s a natural order to how things are supposed to work and how our bodies are supposed to work, and even though the human body is incredibly resilient, our fertility is very fragile,” she adds.

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Trans activists get rude awakening when park officials thwart Yosemite stunt



On May 20, an enormous transgender pride flag was hung vertically from the summit of Yosemite’s El Capitan by a trans activist group that hilariously calls itself “Trans Is Natural.” The stunt was a protest against President Trump’s “anti-trans” policies, specifically the removal of mentions of “transgender” and “intersex” people from government websites.

The leader of the group, a bearded man wearing short shorts and drag makeup who goes by the name “Pattie Gonia,” posted a TikTok from the national park explaining the group’s activism.

Allie Beth Stuckey reacted to the video on a recent episode of “Relatable.”

“We carry the largest trans pride flag to ever be flown in a national park and unfurled it on the side of El Cap to prove a point: that trans is natural. The Trump administration and transphobes would love to have you believe that being trans is unnatural, but species that can transition sexes can be found on every continent and in every ocean on planet Earth,” he said, displaying an image of clownfish, which are protandrous hermaphrodites, meaning they are born male and can change into females later in life.

Allie dismantles his argument with one simple truth: “Humans are not fish.”

She reads between the lines of Pattie’s argument: “You see what he did there? He didn’t say ‘transition gender.’”

“For a long time the ridiculous and false assertion was that gender and sex are separate — that gender is how you identify and how you manifest your feelings about who you are, and your sex is biological. Now they're just saying you can actually transition your sex,” Allie explains.

Except that claim falls immediately flat when you consider that it’s literally impossible to change chromosomes and gametes.

Those “can't be transitioned, so even if it is true that other species can transition sex, the question is can humans transition sexes? And the answer is no,” says Allie, which means being “trans” is “actually the least natural thing in the world.”

“Gender and sex, by the way, are interchangeable. I don't buy this idea that … how you feel on the inside can oppose biological reality,” she adds, calling it a “religious, philosophical idea that is just not true.”

“If something is natural and obvious and observable, you don't have to declare it with a giant flag in a national park — you just don’t.”

Funny enough, Pattie didn’t get the declaration he hoped for. Just shortly after the pink, blue, and black monstrosity was hoisted, park officials ordered its removal, citing policies prohibiting unauthorized displays on park land. In less than two hours, hikers and tourists went back to looking at God’s creation — untainted by LGBTQ+ propaganda.

To see the footage of Pattie Gonia’s thwarted flag stunt and hear more of Allie’s commentary, watch the episode above.

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