TEMPLETON FOUNDATION HAS BEEN ADRFIT ON THE OCEAN OF PROGRESSIVE SOCIAL. POLITICAL AND INTERFAITH “PLURALISM” FOR DECADES BUT REMAINS TRUSTED BY FAR TOO MANY EVANGELICAL ORGANIZATIONS HOPEFUL FOR ITS FUNDING. IN 2014, IT WAS REPORTED THAT TEMPLETON FOLLOWED KERN FAMILY FOUNDATION’S WOKE SEMINARY FUNDING OFFSHORE TO THE CAYMANS. ( NOTE-A MOVE WHICH DOES NOT ADVANTAGE AN ALREADY TAX EXEMPT FOUNDATION) NOW AN EVEN MORE CLEAR INDICATOR OF TEMPLETONS FUTURE CULTURE AND FOCUS COMES WITH THE CHOICE OF CHRISTIANITY TODAY’S TIMOTHY DALRYMPLE AS IT NEW PRESIDENT.
Rev Thomas Littleton
June 6 2025.
TEMPLETON ANNOUNCEMENT.
At the end of May Templeton announced its choice for the new President filling the position being vacated by John Templeton’s granddaughter Heather Templeton Dill who “sharpened its focus on intellectual humility, religious pluralism, and research that strengthens individuals, institutions, and communities.” (NOTE- Religious pluralism is a commitment to maintain an attitude or policy regarding the diversity of belief systems and religions co-existing in society..in short UNIVERSALISM lite. Or certainly the well worn path to Universalism.)
DALRYMPLE AND HIS DISGRACED ACTIVIST COMPANIONS AT CHRISTIANITY TODAY
Dalrymple is very progressive and highly praised by other progressives impacting the evangelical church. His time at Christianity Today has seen the media outlet continue to deepen its extreme leftward drift including with the hiring and replacement of Dalrymple by troubled and disgraced Southern Baptist Russell Moore. NOTE Moore was a known progressive political operative even before being forced out at the Southern Baptist ethics organization. He then launched explosive accusations of sex abuse and rampant racism in the SBC as he left. In his wake the SBC has wasted millions of Missions dollars and nearly bankrupted its top leadership organization as it attempted to appease the feminist and gender/ racial DEI activist culture Moore had welcomed into the Baptist fold. Dalrymple then hired Moore as a “Theologian” (loosely applied title these days) for CT before Moore was announced to move up in effect replacing Dalrymple’s in his role heading the organization.
WHAT IS A “PROFITABEL NON PROFIT”?
Templeton credits Dalrymple with returning the non profit to “profitability”. It states that “Dalrymple will join the Foundation from Christianity Today, where he has served as CEO and led a multi-year transformation that reenvisioned the historic media property, expanded its reach in new media and global markets, and returned it to profitability amid severe headwinds in journalism. He has also led innovative media ventures and worked closely with writers, scholars, and philanthropists to elevate ideas that enrich public life.”
This may simply indicate that he was good at obtaining more agenda driven progressive funders money (like Templeton Foundation) for Christianity Today’s activist “journalism” efforts among evangelicals. If it is news worthy then it must be good and must be true, right?
THE WORST POSSIBLE ENDORSEMENT FOR DALRYMPLE
RUSSELL MOORE’S EXCITED AFFIRMATION OF TEMPLETON’S CHOICE:
russellmoore= The John Templeton Foundation could not have elected a more brilliant and capable new president than @timothydalrymple. I am sad about not having him here, but thrilled about what he will do at JTF. I can think of no one better equipped to take on matters of science, philosophy, and theology, at a time when such matters are more important than ever.”
CONTROVERSY AND LEFTWARD POLITICS
CT’s editor Mark Galli loved using the outlet for his anti Trump rhetoric UNTIL he was outed in the #churchtoo sex abuse movement and forced to resign. Pushback against his overt anti Trump statements were even covered by CNN and responded to by President Donald Trump. NOTE- Russell Moore also let his anti Trump personal politics get him in trouble in 2015/2016 with his Baptist base who paid his salary” to insult them” as some have suggested.
CNN Headline:
“Nearly 200 evangelical leaders slam Christianity Today op-ed that criticized Trump.”
WashingtonCNN —
“Nearly 200 evangelical leaders are pushing back against an op-ed in a prominent Christian magazine that called for Donald Trump to be removed from office, saying the piece “offensively” dismissed their support of the President.”
A far left magazine, or very “progressive,” as some would call it, which has been doing poorly and hasn’t been involved with the Billy Graham family for many years, Christianity Today, knows nothing about reading a perfect transcript of a routine phone call and would rather…..have a Radical Left nonbeliever, who wants to take your religion & your guns, than Donald Trump as your President. No President has done more for the Evangelical community, and it’s not even close. You’ll not get anything from those Dems on stage. I won’t be reading ET again!”
CHRISTIANITY TODAY HAS TAKEN THE LEFTWARD STANCE ON IMMIGRATION AND SOCIAL ISSUES LIKE REVOICE THE “IN-HOUSE SOUTHERN BAPTIST LGBTQ INCLUSION MOVEMENT”.
ON IMMIGRATION -JUST ONE OF A CONSTANT FLOOD OF ARTICLES SHAMING EVANGELICAL CONCERNS OVER OBAMA BIDEN ERA OPEN BORDERS:
Christianity Today on March 31st titled, “America Could Lose 10 Million Christians to Mass Deportation.” Staff editor Andy Olsen WROTE- “The world’s migrants are disproportionately Christian, and demographers say they are helping stanch secularization in countries like the US and Canada.” THE ASSERTION IS that confused American Christians should be compelled to rethink our immigration policies and enforcement. So will CT cover the June 14th protest (in solidarity with the LA riots ) across America with blind sympathy and ignore the clearly political agenda and dark open borders funding behind it? Most assuredly it will.
EXAMPLES
WITH REVOICE FROM 2018
THEOLOGY CT
Revoice’s Founder Answers the LGBT Conference’s Critics
“Christianity Today editor in chief Mark Galli asked Revoice founder Nate Collins about the dispute. Collins is former instructor of New Testament interpretation at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, and a leader at the Center for Faith, Sexuality, and Gender.”
TEMPLETONS PAST AND PRESENT FUNDING VISION. (ALL THE BUZZWORDS)–
Inspiring Awe & Wonder
“The mission of the John Templeton Foundation is to support interdisciplinary research and catalyze conversations that inspire awe and wonder. We are working to create a world where people are curious about the wonders of the universe, free to pursue lives of meaning and purpose, and motivated by great and selfless love.”
Our Values
“At the John Templeton Foundation, we are:
Humble in our approach. We are committed to the process of discovery and are willing to take risks in pursuit of knowledge. We seek diverse perspectives, and we engage with new ideas.
Intellectually rigorous. We seek to push the boundaries of scientific and spiritual understanding.
To do so requires us to be both rigorous and thorough.
Motivated to improve the lives of others. We believe people worldwide will lead purposeful lives by continuously working toward spiritual growth and a better understanding of the virtues by which they want to live.
Committed to human dignity and individual freedom. We see freedom and competition as enabling conditions that spur innovation, creativity, discovery, and the pursuit of knowledge. Free societies allow individuals and communities to live full and meaningful lives.”
THE WORST IS YET TO COME FOR EVANGELICAL ORGANIZATIONS SEEKING FUNDING.
It is certain that with the Church and Christian ministries are clearly in the crosshairs of Global Goals and Agenda 2030. Failure to avoid the snares of mission vision by compromised funding organizations , many ministries are being ruined as we speak. Coming into agreement , contracts, and yoking with organizations and funders promoting “interfaith unity” and “religious pluralism” has both the KISS and stench of death on it. This betrayal for Thirty Pieces of Silver is some of the saddest possible biblical history repeating itself on a daily basis.
So what is the problem with buzz words and phrases, dirty funding and promoting Marxism inspired political, globalist and Non Biblical unity for the good of mankind/human flourishing/ respect for fellow image bearers/ and overall kum ba yah interfaith mushy/creepy/ go along to get along (with the money) interfaith activity? If you do not know -then see the Bible’s take on these compromises in the conclusion below.
Christian organizations who wish to remain faithful to God’s word will either steer clear or free themselves,if already ensnared, with the Templeton Foundation and other funding organizations adn programs like it. If they do NOT then those ministries are destined for the DUNG HEAP.
CONCLUSION
2nd Corinthians 6:
Be Holy
11 O Corinthians! [c]We have spoken openly to you, our heart is wide open. 12 You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted by your own affections. 13 Now in return for the same (I speak as to children), you also be open.
14 Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what [d]fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what [e]communion has light with darkness? 15 And what accord has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever? 16 And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you[f] are the temple of the living God. As God has said:
“I will dwell in them
And walk among them.
I will be their God,
And they shall be My people.”
17 Therefore
“Come out from among them
And be separate, says the Lord.
Do not touch what is unclean,
And I will receive you.”
18 “I will be a Father to you,
And you shall be My sons and daughters,
Says the Lord Almighty.”
WE ARE COMMANDED NOT TO HAVE OR MAKE AFINITY WITH IDOLATRY
Deuteronomy 12:30-31
GOD IS A JEALOUS GOD.
Joshua 24:19-24
19 But Joshua said to the people, “You cannot serve the Lord, for He is a holy God. He is a jealous God; He will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins. 20 If you forsake the Lord and serve foreign gods, then He will turn and do you harm and consume you, after He has done you good.”
21 And the people said to Joshua, “No, but we will serve the Lord!”
22 So Joshua said to the people, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen the Lord for yourselves, to serve Him.”
And they said, “We are witnesses!”
23 “Now therefore,” he said, “put away the foreign gods which are among you, and incline your heart to the Lord God of Israel.”
24 And the people said to Joshua, “The Lord our God we will serve, and His voice we will obey!”
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