About ‘Christianity Today’

If they want to identify immorality, start with themselves?

For some reason I don’t look to Evangelical magazines for guidance on “morality.” Any ideas on the subject are just products of shifting cultural and political ideas. There isn’t even a word in the Bible for ‘morality’. But since the editor of Christianity Today made a splash by throwing the phrase “profoundly immoral” into the impeachment debate—I’d use this standard in looking at the magazine itself?

I subscribed, and took a look through their archives. Let’s go over a few things that I find profoundly immoral?

Women are spiritual beings, yes or no?

The magazine allows that women are spiritual, but remains open to the idea that men are closer to God than women are, and properly in authority ‘over’ them. They like the idea, in 2013, of women wearing scarves on their heads to signal ‘submission’ to men.

#MeTooSortOf

The magazine followed news of #MeToo, but does not, that I’m seeing, do much original reporting. I’m interested to know whether the staff knew of lurking problems and were silent.

When well-known Evangelical clerics were accused of cover-ups I’m dismayed by the coverage. Reporting on C.J. Mahaney, for…