I wrote about how Christianity Today, a more left-leaning christian magazine, lamented the subjection of USAID despite the publication receiving federal government offers a few weeks ago, according to data from Data Republican. I corrected my monitoring of that aspect of the story, and it turns out that those provides were employee loyalty tax credits from COVID, as well.
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I also don’t know why businesses were still using those taxes credits in 2023, but that’s above my give quality. However, David Morrill, publisher of Protestia, asks,” Is it ethical/moral for a Christian organization with increasing income to claim federal tax dollars explicitly intended to help companies with falling income, particularly to the tune of$ 1.1M more than the taxes they actually paid, and were more than capable of paying”?
Timothy Dalrymple, CEO of Christianity Today, responded to the claim that his newspaper allegedly stole money from the government with the highest level of scorn by writing an editorial on Valentine’s Day. He wrote:
Last year, rumors that Christianity Today had received federal money in 2023 circulated on X, the software that was formerly known as Twitter. These assertions were amplified by media celebrities who have long been critical of us. They made the claim that we had received$ 9 million in grants from USAID and were therefore “on the Biden payroll” in its most extreme form.
The frenzy surrounding USAID has disastrous effects on both the bad and the vulnerable people who serve in their communities and on Christian organizations doing preventative work all over the world. It is prudent to have a thoughtful discussion about whether and when ministries should collaborate with government organizations, and where fraud may be eliminated. It is not to dance around the campfire and throw those departments and individuals into flames.
Because of the USAID breaks, Religion Now returns with its undies in a bundle. The Bible doesn’t telephone for governments to finance ministers, and Dalrymple ought to know that. Next again, if he acknowledges that reality, it takes away his chances to righteousness sign.
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Speaking of virtue-signaling, Dalrymple even tackled the notion of Christianity Today’s left discrimination from atop his great horses. His essay is that we should reject the publication’s long-standing leftist bias because some readers might not like the magazine’s content at times. He also wants us to think that we should simply ignore the rest of the journal’s leftism because it refrained from some of the advertising from the Biden administration.
Some of our reviewers may be surprised to learn ( even though they shouldn’t be ) that we turned down Joe Biden’s element in 2021 because we thought it was also politically correct, he wrote. In addition, we also opted not to speak with President Biden during the 2024 plan because it would have felt unbalanced for one candidate and not the other. These are not the behavior of a group that is a part of the Biden administration.
Forgive me if I sound jaded these, but I can’t help but think that Christianity Today’s readers really didn’t want to have to meeting Donald Trump, too.
Okay, so Christianity Today didn’t immediately get USAID funding, but editor-in-chief Russell Moore has benefited from the money of USAID and left-wing foundations, and he has been evident about his never-Trumpism as well as his disdain for conservatism that doesn’t meet within his intellectual bubble.
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Moore is one of the authors of the anti-Trump After Party little party education, which I wrote about next year. In Christianity Today apps and ezines, Moore promoted the After Party.
For years, I wrote about how Moore and his After Party partners David French and Curtis Chang have repeatedly attacked Trump-supporting Christians. Despite all the talk that conservatives have made an hero out of Trump ( which is a real issue ), these three have remained so for centuries. Chang also blamed the’ American chapel’ for the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot”.
The After Party members turned to quit to shake the money trees because they couldn’t get funding from traditional Christian producers or businesses. The Rockefeller Foundation raised money from the same bank that it uses to support” weather justice” and lesbian rights initiatives, and foundations with connections to BLM and pregnancy also contributed to the funding of the After Party.  ,
However, Bill Kristol, one of the biggest names in the After Party, is one of the biggest names in cash Trump Derangement Syndrome Patient Zero himself. Megan Basham notes that Kristol’s Defending Democracy Up, a “highly political, anti-Trump political class”, helped fund the After Party. USAID provided funding for Defense of Democracy Together in the indirect.
According to Basham,” Dalrymple also does not clearly address the nature of the$ 7 million in grants that Christianity Today has received from the Lilly endowment ( of Eli Lilly Pharmaceutical fame ),$ 5 million of which has stated purpose of more global and diversity minded coverage.” Do you think that is neutral or healthy?
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Dalrymple does yell from his large animal whenever he wants, but the truth demonstrates otherwise. Perhaps if his magazine didn’t get USAID cash, it’s also receiving dirty left-wing wealth, and his director is promoting his leftist-funded dog job through the newspaper. He may even sneer at nonpartisanship until he’s orange in the face, but I’ve repeatedly shown that Christianity Today abandons traditional religion in order to address issues involving faith from an extremely left-leaning point of view. And that’s unfortunate because so many Catholics are left out of touch with a once-essential weekly.