The top editor of the prominent evangelical magazine Christianity Today said its spat with President Trump has helped increase subscriptions.
Mark Galli, the editor-in-chief, who wrote an opinion piece calling for Trump’s removal from office, said the magazine has lost subscribers, but the outpouring of support has made up for it.
“A stereotypical response is ‘thank you, thank you, thank you,’ with a string of a hundred exclamation points. ‘You’ve said what I’ve been thinking but haven’t been able to articulate; I’m not crazy,‘” Galli told MSNBC on Sunday of the response from supporters. “We have lost subscribers, but we’ve had three times as many people start to subscribe.“
Trump lashed out at the publication on Friday, claiming it a “far left magazine” that was “doing poorly” after it published an editorial a day earlier that described his conduct as “profoundly immoral.”
It was a notable dissent among the religious conservative base given Trump won 81% of the evangelical vote in the 2016 election, according to Pew Research Center.
The editorial was also met with disdain from Franklin Graham, the son of the magazine’s founder, the late Rev. Billy Graham.
