Evangelical tussling over anti-Trump editorial escalates
Source: AP
By ELANA SCHOR
As the political clamor caused by a top Christian magazines call to remove President Donald Trump from office continues to reverberate, more than 100 conservative evangelicals closed ranks further around Trump on Sunday.
In a letter to the president of Christianity Today magazine, the group of evangelicals chided Editor-in-Chief Mark Galli for penning an anti-Trump editorial, published Thursday, that they portrayed as a dig at their characters as well as the presidents.
Your editorial offensively questioned the spiritual integrity and Christian witness of tens-of-millions of believers who take seriously their civic and moral obligations, the evangelicals wrote to the magazines president, Timothy Dalrymple.
The new offensive from the group of prominent evangelicals, including multiple members of Trumps evangelical advisory board, signals a lingering awareness by the presidents backers that any meaningful crack in his longtime support from that segment of the Christian community could prove perilous for his reelection hopes. Though no groundswell of new anti-Trump sentiment emerged among evangelicals in the wake of Christianity Todays editorial, the president fired off scathing tweets Friday accusing the establishment magazine founded by the late Rev. Billy Graham in 1956 -- of becoming a captive of the left.
FILE - In this Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2019, file photo, President Donald Trump listens to a question during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington. As the political clamor caused by a top Christian magazines call to remove Trump from office continues to reverberate, more than 100 conservative evangelicals closed ranks further around Trump on Sunday, Dec. 22, 2019. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci, File))
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MyOwnPeace
(16,927 posts)Yes, indeed, your defense of IQ45 is quite "offensive!"
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)#ETTD running warp speed now!
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scarytomcat
(1,706 posts)come on evangelists you know he is not religious in any way. If this is the best your god could come up with. Time to become a monk, if you guys want to shut the world out.
DanieRains
(4,619 posts)And helps them fund themselves.
DanieRains
(4,619 posts)Not golden.
CrispyQ
(36,478 posts)Ilsa
(61,695 posts)Notice I didn't say "bull."
certainot
(9,090 posts)safeinOhio
(32,688 posts)Gospel of John Galt to the letter.
LuvNewcastle
(16,846 posts)William Seger
(10,778 posts)Duh!
kacekwl
(7,017 posts)MineralMan
(146,317 posts)Very few people read it in the first place.
"Christianity Today magazine has a print circulation of approximately 130,000, of which approximately 36,000 is free, and readership of 260,000."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_Today
yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)This will leave a mark.
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)than fundamentalists.
Kali
(55,013 posts)MineralMan
(146,317 posts)I think the magazine was more influential decades ago before the far right evangelicals took over evangelical Christianity. It was a staple publication in most Protestant churches, and was read by a good percentage of Protestant pastors, both mainstream and evangelical. It's not really a magazine that targets lay church members, although some read it then and read it now, no doubt.
It's goal was always to reach Protestant ministers, and it did that pretty well. It has been a very long time since I paid any attention to church things. I became an atheist in 1965 and stopped bothering with what pastors thought about, pretty much.
Cognitive_Resonance
(1,546 posts)share their copy (much more so than typical for a magazine). It is influential within a segment of the evangelical protestant world that tends to be less political, but more focused and true to core elements of their Christianity than for instance the radicals who signed the counter letter. The media exposure on the CT editorial ensures it's getting full attention within its sphere of influence. I think this is extremely important toward having a chance to see a rational branch of the evangelical movement break from the crazies.
Canoe52
(2,948 posts)Maybe they were on his side to start with?
djacq
(1,634 posts)White Evangelicals got what they wanted out of Trump. He, Pence, and Moscow Mitch are packing the courts with conservative judges and blurring the lines of the seperation between church and state.
"the spiritual integrity and Christian witness of tens-of-millions of believers who take seriously their civic and moral obligations,
It's a big fat insincere joke.
Where were they on any other time that Trump was immoral?
the_sly_pig
(741 posts)For realism.
Pantagruel
(2,580 posts)when after the "grab 'em by the pussy" tapes they chose to support the self-admitted sexual predator anyway. They can't take that back now.
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)Vacant eyes, devoid of talent, intelligence and empathy.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)failings. They had problems with his anti-Christian policies. The editorial was right to call Christians out for the transactional nature of their support. IOW, they've sold out to the devil.
yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)Now everybody wants to read the CT editorial and apparently the magazine is getting three new subscriptions for every one that gets cancelled.
onecaliberal
(32,863 posts)Initech
(100,080 posts)Glad that Christianity Today was the one to do it.
DeminPennswoods
(15,286 posts)nt