“We wish him the best,” the statement added. “We will remain a publication rooted in our Christian faith and committed to objectivity in our reporting and diversity in our opinions.”

The original editorial has stirred controversy for days — starting, not surprisingly, with Mr. Trump himself. “I guess the magazine, ‘Christianity Today,’ is looking for Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, or those of the socialist/communist bent, to guard their religion,” he said on Twitter the day after it was published. “How about Sleepy Joe? The fact is, no President has ever done what I have done for Evangelicals, or religion itself!”

Mr. Trump’s re-election campaign announced that he would go to Miami on Jan. 3 to start an “Evangelicals for Trump” coalition.

The Christian Post response noted that nearly 200 evangelical leaders had signed a letter condemning the Christianity Today editorial, which was also the subject of a news story on its home page. The letter said that the editorial “offensively questioned the spiritual integrity and Christian witness of tens-of-millions of believers who take seriously their civic and moral obligations.”

The Post also noted that Franklin Graham, whose father was Billy Graham, continued to support the president. In a response to the editorial, Franklin Graham wrote on Facebook that his late father had voted for Mr. Trump in 2016, a revelation he had never before made publicly.

The Christian Post was started in 2004 to provide news and commentary of interest to Christian readers, and is not linked to any particular sect or congregation, according to the site.

A recent poll from the Public Religion Research Institute found that 77 percent of white evangelical Protestants approve of the job Mr. Trump is doing in office, including half who strongly approve. Mr. Nazworth had taken issue with those figures in a recent article, arguing that evangelical support for Mr. Trump had been greatly overstated.