Christianity Today sees boost in subscriptions after calling for Trump's removal
Christianity Today Editor in Chief Mark Galli has said that his leading evangelical Christian publication has seen a surge in new subscriptions since it called for US President Donald Trump’s removal from office.
One day after the House of Representatives voted to impeach the president, Christianity Today published a scathing editorial calling for President Trump’s removal from office.
“A stereotypical response is ‘thank you, thank you, thank you’ with a string of a hundred exclamation points — ‘you’ve said what I’ve been thinking but haven’t been able to articulate, I’m not crazy,‘” Galli told MSNBC on Sunday.
“We have lost subscribers, but we’ve had 3 times as many people start to subscribe,” he continued.
The magazine drew backlash last week from prominent evangelical leaders following the article.
"It’s obvious that Christianity Today has moved to the left and is representing the elitist liberal wing of evangelicalism," said Franklin Graham, CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and Samaritan's Purse.
Trump also lashed out at Christianity Today. In a series of tweets on Friday, Trump went after the publication and said the flagship evangelical magazine was “very far left” and claimed he had done more for evangelicals than other presidents.
“A far left magazine, or very ‘progressive,’ as some would call it, which has been doing poorly and hasn’t been involved with the Billy Graham family for many years, Christianity Today, knows nothing about reading a perfect transcript of a routine phone call and would rather have a Radical Left nonbeliever, who wants to take your religion & your guns, than Donald Trump as your President,” Trump wrote in a pair of tweets.
"No President has done more for the Evangelical community, and it's not even close," Trump added.
In an editorial on Thursday, Christianity Today said that Trump is "morally lost and confused" and should be removed from office.
Christianity Today, founded in 1956 by the late Reverend Billy Graham, wrote in an editorial carrying the headline “Trump Should Be Removed from Office” that it could no longer stand on the sidelines following Trump’s impeachment.
“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,” the editorial read.
“That is not only a violation of the Constitution; more importantly, it is profoundly immoral,” it said.
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