APOSTASY IN THE CHURCH

Submitted by: M Mullikin

Apostasy in the Church

28 December 2019

Christianity Today’s Editor Mark Galli Slaves

By Jim Fletcher

Mark Galli, the (conveniently) outgoing editor of Christianity Today magazine, decided to bow out on a controversial note last week, when he penned a hostile piece against President Trump. Galli actually called for Trump to be removed from office, a curious and even bizarre stance for a member of the “flagship” periodical for Evangelicalism, which was founded by Billy Graham.

(Let me say here that CT has been left-wing for decades, but like most of the Evangelical Deep State, its staff manages to fool rank-and-file evangelicals, most of whom know very little of the progressive tactics of those who pretend to be Bible believers.)

Galli [pictured below] knew of course there would be backlash and I can even believe it was calculated to boost subscription sales or some such. In any event, it also (finally) angered many, including Franklin Graham, whose father founded the magazine in 1955.

(Billy unknowingly associated with that era’s progressives, including Fuller professor Daniel Fuller, who was intent on changing the institution into a left-wing think-tank. He and his friends succeeded.)

The good outcome of Galli’s attack on the President is that it seems to have nudged many out of their slumber. The piece made national news and CT double-downed on Galli’s attack.

An Open Letter appearing in Religion News Service (itself left-wing and the publisher of progressives like Jonathan Merritt) endorsed Galli’s op-ed in CT. Now, the interesting thing to note here is that it is signed by several anti-Israel speakers and writers, including Ron Sider, Dale Hanson Bourke, and Mae Elise Cannon. Richard Mouw, president of the left-wing Fuller Theological Seminary, also lent his name to the letter.

In part, the letter reads:

“Galli’s statement provoked international media attention and a response from President Trump via Twitter that sought to marginalize Christianity Today as ‘a far left magazine,’ or very ‘progressive’ media outlet. It is within that context that we, as friends and elders of Christianity Today, make this statement:

“’The United States evangelical and Christian community is at a moral crossroads. Our country has never been more politically divided with white evangelical Christians at the heart of much of the political discord. Regardless of whether or not one agrees with Galli’s conclusion or his argument, we write to affirm his courage and the bold decision to have Christianity Today officially take a stand regarding the Trump presidency.’”

This is Soviet-style propaganda. The signatories to the letter know very well that CT is left-wing and that they are themselves very progressive. But they want the public to think they are even-handed. Notice the extremist, racist position they take by blaming “white evangelical Christians”!

Yet they don’t even blush when attacking Bible-believing Christians, at the same time they cloak themselves in piety.

Galli is no stranger to unorthodox positions, at the same time he presents himself as an orthodox Christian. In a 2010 piece (now removed from the CT website) titled “The Divine Drama Queen,” he describes God this way:

"volatile Italian woman who, upon discovering her husband's unfaithfulness, yells and throws dishes"

"He's anything but calm and collected, reassuring and reasonable. He's as mercurial as gods go"

He also described Jesus as having mental and emotional problems. Elsewhere, Galli has reviewed favourably Greg Boyd’s “Open Theism” position, which states that God doesn’t know all the future!

So you see, Mark Galli is really not some even-handed, reasonable chap. He is a radical, bent on destroying biblical Christianity and painting politically conservative Christians as Other. That is of course quite dangerous. He doesn’t care.

That doesn’t deter his progressive fans, who have chained themselves to a worldview that has nothing to do with the Bible.

[by the way, as much as we disagreed with Billy Graham’s ecumenism and love of successive popes, he did vote for Donald Trump and endorsed his candidacy for the office of president.- Ed]