Posted on 12/20/2019 2:04:25 PM PST by SeekAndFind
On Thursday, Christianity Today's Editor-in-Chief Mark Galli called for the removal of President Donald Trump in the impeachment process. He cited the late renowned evangelist Billy Graham, the magazine's founder. Many evangelical leaders, notably including Billy Graham's son Franklin, condemned the op-ed and insisted that Christianity Today no longer speaks for evangelicals.
"In our founding documents, Billy Graham explains that Christianity Today will help evangelical Christians interpret the news in a manner that reflects their faith. The impeachment of Donald Trump is a significant event in the story of our republic. It requires comment," Galli wrote. He again referenced Graham, saying that the founder encouraged Christianity Today to "make our own opinions on political matters clear ... with both conviction and love." He insisted that the magazine's staff do "love and pray for our president."
Yet Galli went on to demand Trump's removal from office — either through the impeachment process or by the voters in 2020. He insisted that "the facts in this instance are unambiguous: The president of the United States attempted to use his political power to coerce a foreign leader to harass and discredit one of the president’s political opponents. That is not only a violation of the Constitution; more importantly, it is profoundly immoral."
This framing is extremely debatable, and even if it is true, Trump's action arguably does not rise to the level of high crimes and misdemeanors — since an investigation into Joe Biden's dealings with Ukraine (from which his son Hunter profited handsomely) is arguably in America's interest.
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Speaking for myself, I let my subscription end NLT 1990. CT has been off the rails for a long time.
I dropped my subscription to CT around the time of the NIV/TNIV gender-pronoun debacle (circa 1999). Later they jumped on the global-warming bandwagon and went downhill from there.
I switched to Midnight Call, an Evangelical magazine that had a strong Christ-centered Bible-centered focus that covers modern trends in Christianity from a Biblical perspective.
https://midnightcall.com/archive/midnight-call/
Pretty good description of American Jurisprudence today when dealing with the “progressives”
Excellent Points. I made similar comments over at HotAir.com. Galli is a self-righteous narcissist who proved that he doesn’t really care about the CT staff who will now lose their jobs. He is primarily interested in making himself feel better about himself and his PC views.
Same damn thing happened to magazine run by William Buckley then taken over by Bill Kristol now is a POS I think as a matter of fact has gone out of business!! I can’t remember the name of the publication having a senior moment !!!!
It never did speak for evangelicals.
Not sure that will happen. Pretty much the only people reading CT anymore are already leftist social justice types who don’t understand the Gospel and have no concept of who Christ is, so.... But at least Trump won’t be hurt by this. Those who read this rag were never his base anyway.
I thought Kristol was associated with the Weekly Standard, now defunct. William Buckley’s magazine was National Review.
Thank you you are correct I am wrong OOPS!!!
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