Last year, leaders of the evangelical publication Christianity Today summoned the entire staff to a hotel ballroom in the Chicago suburbs for a meeting about their future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The publication\u2019s chief operating officer, Nicole Massie Martin, opened her presentation with a Bible verse from the Old Testament about rejoicing even in dark times, \u201cthough the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food.\u201d Then Thomas Addington, the interim president, delivered a blunt message: Christianity Today\u2019s reputation as a staid voice of intellectual centrist evangelicalism \u2014 embodied by its proximity to Wheaton College in Illinois \u2014 had to change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Christianity Today needed to be less like Wheaton and more like TikTok, Mr. Addington told his staff, according to several people who attended the meeting. Warning that layoffs were coming, he ended his presentation with a prayer. A senior editor left the room in tears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fourteen months later, more than half of the 79 employees at that time have either been laid off or resigned, including an editor in chief and four of the company\u2019s longest-tenured journalists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read it all<\/a>.<\/p> Christianity Today has seen about half its staff quit or laid off in the last 14 mos. Former employees told me that new business leaders have intervened in editorial decisions & are effectively abandoning the outlet’s commitment to independent journalism. https:\/\/t.co\/Q4Iy7v5mQB<\/p>— Ruth Graham (@publicroad) October 21, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote>\n