Rebuttal of Christianity Today’s Trump Editorial Leads to a Resignation

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Rebuttal of Christianity Today's Trump Editorial Leads to a ResignationA second evangelical site, The Christian Post, sharply denounced the editorial, prompting its own political editor to resign in protest.A scathing anti-Trump editorial published by the prominent evangelical magazine Christianity Today continues to provoke fierce debate. A response in The Christian Post on Monday denounced the editorial, prompting an editor there to resign in protest.Christianity Today, a leading publication founded by the Rev. Billy Graham, published the anti-Trump editorial on Thursday, following the House vote to impeach President Trump on charges that he had abused his power and obstructed Congress.The magazine's editor in chief, Mark Galli, argued that it was "profoundly immoral" that Mr. Trump had attempted to persuade his Ukrainian counterpart to investigate a political rival, and called for the president's removal from office.The Christian Post rebuttal, published on Monday, noted the "firestorm of criticism and dissent" the editorial had provoked, noting that white evangelicals have strongly supported Mr. Trump despite repeated controversies. The authors, John Grano and Richard Land, wrote that Christianity Today's "disdainful, dismissive, elitist posture toward their fellow Christians may well do far more long-term damage to American Christianity and its witness than any current prudential support for President Trump will ever cause."This apparently proved too much for an editor at The Christian Post, Napp Nazworth, who wrote on Twitter on Monday that he was "forced to make the difficult choice" to leave the site, which lists him as a politics and opinion editor. He did not immediately respond to a message on Tuesday. "They decided to publish an editorial that positions them

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