Meet Mark Galli, the editor of the evangelical magazine Christianity Today who called for Trump’s removal
It’s not the first time that the editor of the evangelical magazine has called Trump’s leadership and morality into question.to “not be silent about Donald Trump’s blatant immorality,” writing that the candidate was “the very embodiment of what the Bible calls a fool.”, “What to do with Donald Trump’s soul.” In it, he wrote, “the gospel of Jesus Christ casts the behavior of Trump in a transcendent light, and that light looks to us like darkness.
“I wasn’t aware of the deeply felt need...for a leading evangelical institution to speak out” publicly and clearly about the “public moral character” of the president, Galli said.The 67-year-old California native has been the editor for the Illinois-based magazine for seven years, and worked at the magazine for about two decades total. He wrote the editorial to capture the timeliness of the impeachment vote, just weeks before he isThe timing is coincidental, he said.
Galli was born in San Francisco and grew up in Santa Cruz — liberal hotspots and somewhat unlikely cities in which to develop strong evangelical influences. And yet Galli has spent much of his career at Christianity Today, which Billy Graham founded in the 1950s. “That’s been my whole upbringing and the way I approach things,” he said. “With people with whom I disagree strongly ...the first thing I try to do is understand them charitably: Why do they believe what they believe, how did they come to that conclusion? I really enjoy the conversations we have.”
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