After Canon Press, the publishing arm of Pastor Douglas Wilson’s ministry, tried unsuccessfully to buy Christianity Today (CT) for $10 million, CT insisted the magazine “is not for sale and has never been for sale.” CT, founded in 1956 by the Rev. Billy Graham, is a nonprofit and can’t be sold as a traditional business.
But that didn’t stop Canon Press, based in Moscow, Idaho, from making a “proposal to purchase assets” of CT on Sept. 29. In its proposal, shared on social media by reporter Megan Basham, Canon Press referenced conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who was assassinated on Sept. 10. The letter noted, in part:
We have a publishing and streaming platform built to thrive in this new environment where Christians come under fire for expressing the most basic truths. Charlie Kirk carried the torch of Christianity Today’s founder Billy Graham as a global evangelist, and it is in his legacy that we see the future of Christianity Today. We appreciate Christianity Today and are confident that we can grow it to reach a larger audience and increase its impact, all while preserving that legacy.
Wilson, a self-described Christian nationalist, founded the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches (CREC). In addition to his Christ Church congregation in Idaho, Wilson recently planted a church in Washington, D.C. He has sparked controversy with comments about topics such as women and slavery.
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Dr. Russell Moore, CT’s editor-in-chief, has criticized Wilson for having a “really dark and non-Christian view of who God is fundamentally.” Moore also said young men who embrace Wilson’s teachings “become losers” instead of “responsible, faithful men.”
In her Sept. 29 post about the Canon Press buyout attempt, Megan Basham—author of “Shepherds for Sale,” which is published by Broadside Books, an imprint of HarperCollins—wrote, “I have heard many Christians lament that @CTmagazine has been captured by worldly ideology and wish someone would restore it to Billy Graham’s intended purpose. Looks like @canonpress is trying to do exactly that.”
Christianity Today Accepted Money From Liberal Group
Soon after making that post, Basham shared a discovery she made while reviewing CT’s financial statements. “The mag is now taking money from the Hewlett Foundation (a MAJOR supporter of Planned Parenthood) to cover US elections,” she posted. “Seems like it would be much better to have Billy Graham’s publication housed with a company like @canonpress that doesn’t take $$$ from abortion promoters.”
On Sept. 30, Basham wrote:
When I started digging deeper, it turns out that CT has taken much more than one grant. They have taken more than $1 million [since 2022] from the second largest funder of Planned Parenthood in the country—an organization that massively promotes abortion and transgender ideology. Interestingly, the grant started a few months after Russell Moore’s arrival at CT. Secular left-wing money seems to follow him wherever he goes.
It is no secret that many Christians believe that Christianity Today has been compromised by leftism. But this is something even I would never have expected, especially given that, their news editor, (and soon to be editor-in-chief) @MarvinOlasky once made his name exposing the funding that Sojourners was taking from George Soros. Now, his own employer is engaging in something orders of magnitude worse.
After Canon Press, the publishing arm of Pastor Douglas Wilson’s ministry, tried unsuccessfully to buy Christianity Today (CT) for $10 million, CT insisted the magazine “is not for sale and has never been for sale.”Click to Post
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