Christianity Today

===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>