Christianity Today
Christianity Today, also referred to as CT Magazine, is an evangelical Christian magazine founded by the late Billy Graham in 1956. It is one of the largest evangelical Christian publications in the United States, and has been referred to as evangelicalism’s “flagship” publication by The Washington Post and a “mainstream evangelical magazine” by The New York Times.
Upon its founding, Graham said that he wanted to "plant the evangelical flag in the middle-of-the-road, taking the conservative theological position but a definite liberal approach to social problems."
In 2023, the magazine says its mission is “To elevate the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God.” Christianity Today promises to “deliver an exceptional experience that is biblically rooted and beautifully orthodox, globally engaged and thoughtfully diverse, exquisitely crafted and surprisingly creative, always inspired by a love for Christ and his church.”
Previously, Christianity Today supported the impeachments of both Democratic President Bill Clinton and Republican President Donald Trump, whom outgoing Editor-in-Chief Mark Galli described as "profoundly immoral" in a 2019 editorial.
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Palm Sunday marks the day Jesus entered Jerusalem and the beginning of the week of his passion, which, in the context of this article, refers to his suffering and death on the cross.
But if you did not know that and you were to look up the word passion in a modern dictionary (for instance, my computer’s built-in New Oxford American Dictionary), you would likely find these as the top three definitions: (1) “strong and barely controllable emotion”; (2) “an intense desire or enthusiasm for something”; (3) “intense sexual love.” These are the kinds of things we associate with the word passion in our society.
But in good old dictionaries, like older versions of the Oxford English Dictionary (which has been considered the “definitive historical dictionary” of the English language), you will find passion primarily defined according to its original meaning: “suffering,” from the Latin word passio. This consensus goes back to at least the second century when Tertullian wrote in Latin of the passionibus Christi.