The Open Letter Response to Christianity Today: Dominionists, Arise!

If you follow in any way the American evangelical support for Donald Trump, then you can’t have missed the recent drama that consumed everyone’s attention shortly before Christmas. On the 19th of December 2019, Christianity Today (CT) published an article by editor-in-chief Mark Galli entitled “Trump Should be Removed from Office.” This article ignited a firestorm of controversy, and within a short time of the article appearing, CT’s website crashed due to the high volume of traffic of people wanting to read the article.

For the first time, it was felt, a prominent evangelical voice had finally spoken out about the damage that Christian support for Trump had done. Some argued that it was too little, too late; and of course, those who do support Trump immediately pushed back.

Mere days after the original article appeared, on the 22nd of December, nearly 200 evangelical leaders published an open letter to CT. These prominent leaders protested Galli’s article as “offensive” and “dismissive” of their point of view — and that of the millions of evangelicals who also support Trump.

Later that same day, this open letter of protest in turn prompted CT’s president and CEO, William Dalrymple, to respond by posting a piece defending Galli. Dalrymple’s article was entitled “A Flag in the…