11 Facts About Christianity Today

1.

Christianity Today magazine is an evangelical Christian media periodical founded in 1956 by Billy Graham.

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2.

Neglected, slighted, misrepresented—evangelical Christianity Today needs a clear voice, to speak with conviction and love, and to state its true position and its relevance to the world crisis.

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3.

Christianity Today founded or acquired periodicals during the 1980s and 1990s, beginning with Leadership, a quarterly journal for clergy, in 1980.

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4.

Many of the sections published online under the Christianity Today banner are the online legacies of defunct print publications, even named after the aforementioned publications.

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5.

In 2005, Christianity Today International published 12 magazines, but following the financial downturn of 2008 it was forced to shutter several publications.

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6.

In 1982, Christianity Today purchased the magazine Campus Life, aimed at a high school audience, from, Campus Life Publications, Inc, a nonprofit organization, which had purchased Campus Life magazine from Youth For Christ in 1980.

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7.

Christian History was a journal of the history of Christianity Today, first issued in January 1982 by the Christian History Institute.

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8.

Christianity Today took over ownership of the magazine beginning with issue 22 in 1989.

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9.

In 2008, Christianity Today sold the magazine to the ministry Significant Living.

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10.

Christianity Today purchased the publication from Cook Communications Ministries in 1998 after that publisher abruptly closed the magazine.

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11.

Christianity Today purchased the magazine from Cook Communications Ministries in 1998 in the same deal in which it acquired Virtue.

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