Christianity Today

==History==
The second issue of ''Christianity Today'' was created in the date of October 15, 1956, and the opening editorial, Why 'Christianity Today'?,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.christianitytoday.org/ministry/history/whychristianitytoday.html|title=Why 'Christianity Today'?|website=Christianity Today}}</ref> stated "''Christianity Today'' has its origin in a deep-felt desire to express historical Christianity to the present generation. Neglected, slighted, misrepresented—evangelical Christianity needs a clear voice, to speak with conviction and love, and to state its true position and its relevance to the world crisis. A generation has grown up unaware of the basic truths of the Christian faith taught in the [[Scripture]]s and expressed in the creeds of the historic evangelical churches."

Its first editor was [[Carl F. H. Henry]]. Notable contributors in its first two decades included [[F. F. Bruce]], [[Edward John Carnell]], [[Frank Gaebelein]], [[Walter Ralston Martin|Walter Martin]], [[John Warwick Montgomery]], and [[Harold Lindsell]]. Lindsell succeeded Henry as editor and during his editorial administration much attention centered on debates about [[biblical inerrancy]]. Later editorial leadership came from Kenneth Kantzer, Terry Muck, and David Neff. [[V. Gilbert Beers]] was hired as the fourth editor in 1982, reportedly to increase the magazine's lay readership.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Buursma |first=Bruce |date=June 19, 1982 |title=Author V. Gilbert Beers chosen to edit top religious periodical |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/387796715/?match=1 |access-date=2024-04-03 |website=Chicago Tribune |language=en}}</ref> The most recent editor in chief was [[Mark Galli]], who retired on January 3, 2020. His replacement as editor in chief is Daniel M. Harrell.<ref name=GalliRetire>{{cite news|last1=Olsen|first1=Ted|title=Mark Galli Announces Retirement as Editor in Chief of Christianity Today|url=https://www.christianitytoday.org/media-room/news/2019/mark-galli-announces-retirement-as-editor-in-chief.html|access-date=19 December 2019|publisher=Christianity Today|date=7 October 2019}}</ref>  Andy Olsen is managing editor of the print edition and Andrea Palpant Dilley is managing editor of online journalism. The publication now includes print and online versions and various ancillary products. Print and online contents include feature stories, news ranging from cultural issues from a Christian viewpoint to the global church, opinion, reviews, and investigative reporting.

In [[Billy Graham]]'s 1997 autobiography, ''Just As I Am'', he writes of his vision, idea, and history with ''Christianity Today''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.christianitytoday.org/ministry/history/envisioningct.html|title=Envisioning 'Christianity Today'|website=Christianity Today}}</ref> and his early meeting with oil company executive, [[J. Howard Pew|John Howard Pew]], to establish the publication.<ref>{{cite book|last=Graham|first=Billy|title=Just as I am: the autobiography of Billy Graham|location=Grand Rapids, Michigan|publisher=Zondervan|isbn=978-0060633875|page=[https://archive.org/details/justasiamautobio00grah/page/88 88]|year=1997|url=https://archive.org/details/justasiamautobio00grah/page/88}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MBtFlW8vxuwC&pg=PA71|title=The Westminster Handbook to Evangelical Theology|last=Olson|first=Roger E.|author-link=Roger E. Olson|publisher=[[Westminster John Knox Press]]|date=2004|access-date=September 19, 2023|page=71|isbn=0-664-22464-4}}</ref>

===Editorials on impeachments of U.S. presidents===
Most critics label it as a mainstream, intellectual, centrist evangelical publication.<ref name="Neuhaus 1999">{{cite web | last=Neuhaus | first=Richard John | title=Bill Clinton and the American Character | website=First Things | date=June 1, 1999 | url=https://www.firstthings.com/article/1999/06/bill-clinton-and-the-american-character | access-date=February 16, 2022}}</ref><ref name=lashes>{{Cite web|last=Pesce|first=Nicole Lyn|title=Trump lashes back at 'far left' Christianity Today — and says he'll stop reading 'ET'|url=https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-lashes-back-at-far-left-christianity-today-op-ed-and-says-hell-stop-reading-et-2019-12-20|access-date=2020-12-10|website=MarketWatch|language=en-US}}</ref><ref name="Martin 2020">{{cite web | last=Martin | first=Wes | title=Retired Christianity Today Editor Talks Backlash Over Editorial Advocating For Trump's Removal | website=WBUR | date=January 6, 2020 | url=https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2020/01/06/christianity-today-christian-post-editoiral-mark-galli-retires | access-date=February 16, 2022}}</ref><ref name="Lindsay 2007 pp. 883–909">{{cite journal | last=Lindsay | first=D. Michael | title=Ties That Bind and Divisions That Persist: Evangelical Faith and the Political Spectrum | journal=[[Political Science Quarterly]] | volume=59 | issue=3 | year=2007 | issn=0032-3195 | jstor=40068454 | pages=883–909 | url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/40068454 | access-date=February 16, 2022}}</ref>

On June 7, 1974, in an editorial entitled "Should Nixon Resign?", published during the [[Impeachment process against Richard Nixon|impeachment hearings]] of [[Richard Nixon|President Richard Nixon]], ''Christianity Today'' wrote "that the constitutional process should be followed, and followed with dispatch." The magazine did not call for his resignation, but instead stated that "If he is acquitted, the nation will have to wait out the term of a President whose ability to function has been seriously eroded."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/1974/june-7/editorials-should-nixon-resign.html|title=Should Nixon Resign?|website=ChristianityToday.com|language=en|date=June 7, 1974|access-date=2019-12-20}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MNbaDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT242|title=Evil Deeds in High Places: Christian America's Moral Struggle with Watergate|last=Settje|first=David E.|publisher=[[New York University Press]]|date=2020|access-date=September 19, 2023|page=242|isbn=9781479803170}}</ref>

On October 5, 1998, regarding the imminent [[Impeachment of Bill Clinton|impeachment]] of President [[Bill Clinton]], ''Christianity Today'' stated in an editorial that "Unsavory dealings and immoral acts by the president and those close to him" have compromised his administration's moral leadership,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/1998/october5/8tb036.html|title=The Prodigal Who Didn't Come Home|website=Christianity Today|language=en|date=October 5, 1998|access-date=December 20, 2019}}</ref> criticizing his televised August 17 confession as a "nonapology".<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zW6YDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA163|title=The Art of the Public Grovel: Sexual Sin and Public Confession in America|last=Bauer|first=Susan Wise|author-link=Susan Wise Bauer|publisher=[[Princeton University Press]]|date=2008|access-date=September 19, 2023|page=163|isbn=978-0-691-13810-7}}</ref>

In one such editorial, published a day after the [[U.S. House of Representatives]] [[First impeachment of Donald Trump|impeached President Donald Trump]] for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/18/us/politics/trump-impeached.html|title=Trump Impeached for Abuse of Power and Obstruction of Congress|first1=Nicholas|last1=Fandos|first2=Michael D.|last2=Shear|date=December 18, 2019|work=The New York Times|access-date=February 14, 2022}}</ref><ref name="Remove">{{cite web|last1=Galli|first1=Mark|title=Trump Should Be Removed from Office|work=Christianity Today|url=https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2019/december-web-only/trump-should-be-removed-from-office.html|date=December 19, 2019|access-date=December 19, 2019}}</ref> editor in chief [[Mark Galli]] asserted among other criticisms that he sought to leverage his political power "to coerce a foreign leader to harass and discredit" [[2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries|presidential candidate]] [[Joe Biden]]. "That is not only a violation of the Constitution," he argued, "more importantly, it is profoundly immoral."<ref name="Remove"/><ref name="guardian-19dec2019">{{cite news |last1=Ho |first1=Vivian |title=Evangelical magazine Christianity Today calls for Trump's removal after impeachment |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/19/trump-evangelical-christian-magazine-impeachment |access-date=December 19, 2019 |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=December 19, 2019}}</ref> The editorial received extensive media coverage and caught the attention of Trump and his allies, who in response sought to discredit the publication,<ref>{{cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j98eEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA373|chapter=Chapter 13 – Donald Trump and the Stigmata of Democracy: Adorno and the Consolidation of a Religious Racket|title=How to Critique Authoritarian Populism: Methodologies of the Frankfurt School|series=Studies in Critical Social Sciences|last=Brittain|first=Christopher Craig|publisher=[[Brill Publishers]]|date=February 18, 2021|access-date=September 19, 2023|volume=180|pages=373–375|isbn=978-90-04-44473-7}}</ref> with the former describing it as "far-left"<ref name=lashes/> and almost 200 evangelical leaders rebuking it for the editorial.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P_MeEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA212|title=The Republican Resistance: #NeverTrump Conservatives and the Future of the GOP|last1=Pieper|first1=Andrew L.|last2=DeWitt|first2=Jeff R.|publisher=[[Lexington Books]]|date=2021|access-date=September 19, 2023|page=212|isbn=978-1-7936-0745-4}}</ref>

=== Sexual harassment controversy ===
In 2022 the magazine published two articles announcing that a number of women reported demeaning, inappropriate, and offensive behavior by former editor in chief [[Mark Galli]] and former advertising director Olatokunbo Olawoye, whilst their behavior remained unchecked and the men were not disciplined, according to an external assessment of the ministry's culture.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Silliman |first=Daniel |date=2022-03-15 |title=Sexual Harassment Went Unchecked at Christianity Today |url=https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2022/march/sexual-harassment-ct-guidepost-assessment-galli-olawoye.html |access-date= |website=Christianity Today |language=en}}</ref>

Speaking to [[Religion News Service]], Galli admitted that he may have "crossed lines" during his time as editor, but denied having had "any romantic or sexual interest in anyone at ''Christianity Today''."<ref>{{Cite web |last=RELEVANT |date=2022-03-16 |title=A Former Christianity Today Editor Has Been Accused of Sexual Harassment |url=https://relevantmagazine.com/culture/a-former-christianity-today-editor-has-been-accused-of-sexual-harassment/ |access-date= |website=[[Relevant (magazine)|Relevant]] |language=en-US}}</ref>

In an editorial on the magazine, the CEO of ''Christianity Today'' [[Timothy Dalrymple]] admitted that the society that owns and edits the magazine fell short on protecting the employees and apologized for the fact, promising strong and swift action against sexual harassment.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Dalrymple |first=Timothy |date=2022-03-16 |title=We Fell Short in Protecting Our Employees |url=https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2022/march-web-only/we-fell-short-in-protecting-our-employees-editorial.html |access-date= |website=Christianity Today |language=en}}</ref>