Christian Post Editor Quits As Infighting Continues

The Hill reports:

An editor at The Christian Post announced his resignation late Monday, citing a recent editorial that he said positioned the evangelical publication “on Team Trump.” Nazworth’s resignation came after an editorial published by the Post earlier Monday.

In the editorial, John Grano and Richard Land accused Christianity Today editor Mark Galli, who called for President Trump’s removal from office, of “obvious elitist disdain and corrosive condescension for fellow Christians with whom he disagrees,” which they write “may well do far more long-term damage to American Christianity and its witness than any current prudential support for President Trump will ever cause.”

Announcement: Today, rather abruptly, I was forced to make the difficult choice to leave The Christian Post. They decided to publish an editorial that positions them on Team Trump. I can’t be an editor for a publication with that editorial voice. …

— Napp Nazworth (@NappNazworth) December 24, 2019

I’m saddened by what happened for many reasons. I’ve been with CP for over 8.5 years, made many friendships, and had lots of exciting opportunities along the way. …

— Napp Nazworth (@NappNazworth) December 24, 2019

As long as I was with the company, they strived to be a place that represented the diversity of evangelicalism in the US. I even wrote about this diversity in the last published article I wrote on Sunday. …

— Napp Nazworth (@NappNazworth) December 24, 2019

When the editors had disagreements, we would work through them, letting those discussions and debates inform and improve our coverage. Now, CP has chosen to go in a different direction. Like so many other media companies, they’ve chosen to silo themselves. …

— Napp Nazworth (@NappNazworth) December 24, 2019

They’ve chosen to represent a narrow (and shrinking) slice of Christianity. That might be a good business decision, short term at least. But …

— Napp Nazworth (@NappNazworth) December 24, 2019

… it’s bad for Democracy, and bad for the Gospel. It means there will be one more place where readers can go for bias confirmation, but one less place where readers can go to exercise their brains on diversity of thought. {end}

— Napp Nazworth (@NappNazworth) December 24, 2019