{"id":40387,"date":"2019-12-20T01:11:49","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T01:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40387"},"modified":"2019-12-20T01:11:49","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T01:11:49","slug":"christianity-today-delivers-the-goods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40387","title":{"rendered":"Christianity Today delivers the goods"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=ChristianityToday%20%23MAGA%20%23evangelicalmovement%20%23POTUS%20%23BillyGraham&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_40388\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40388\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/donald-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-40388\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/donald-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/donald-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/donald-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/donald-1.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40388\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo by Drew Angerer\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Rev. Billy Graham would be proud \u2026 I believe.<\/p>\n<p>Christianity Today, the magazine founded by America&#8217;s Pastor, has delivered a stunning rebuke of the current president who has courted the evangelical movement as if he actually believed the teachings offered in the New Testament.<\/p>\n<p>The publication has called for Trump&#8217;s removal from office. Read the analysis\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2019\/december-web-only\/trump-should-be-removed-from-office.html\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The essay is written by editor in chief Mark Galli, who declares that Trump&#8217;s ethical incompetence and &#8220;moral deficiencies&#8221; render him unfit for high office.<\/p>\n<p>Galli&#8217;s essay does take Democrats to task for having it in for Trump all along and for the nature of the impeachment process. Still, the publication&#8217;s editor states: <em>But the facts in this instance are unambiguous: 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&#8217;s political opponents. That is not only a violation of the Constitution; more importantly, it is profoundly immoral.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Does this essay now mean that millions of evangelical movement votes will abandon the president? Hardly. It does, though, suggest a leading Christian publication has retained a significant sense of outrage over a man who <em>pretends<\/em> to be faithful to Christian teachings.<\/p>\n<p>This individual isn&#8217;t faithful to anything other than to his own well-being, his own poll standing, his own political future.<\/p>\n<p>It appears to me that Christianity Today has, shall we say, found some necessary religion.<\/p>\n<p>The Rev. Billy Graham is looking down on this world with a smile on his face.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=ChristianityToday%20%23MAGA%20%23evangelicalmovement%20%23POTUS%20%23BillyGraham&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rev. Billy Graham would be proud \u2026 I believe. Christianity Today, the magazine founded by America&#8217;s Pastor, has delivered a stunning rebuke of the current president who has courted the evangelical movement as if he actually believed the teachings offered in the New Testament. The publication has called for Trump&#8217;s removal from office. Read &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40387\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Christianity Today delivers the goods<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5805,9105,1424,2253,4998],"class_list":["post-40387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religious-news","tag-billy-graham","tag-christianity-today","tag-donald-trump","tag-impeachment","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40389,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40387\/revisions\/40389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}