If you were to visit the offices of Christianity Today, you might be surprised to find that we're a relatively small team. There are about 60 of us here in the office; a modest 1970s mansard-style building in the western suburbs of Chicago.
And in the furthest corner of our basement, you'd find an unassuming row of metal file cabinets. For years, those cabinets were the source of much anxiety for me. Why? They happened to contain the last known copies of early issues of
Christianity Today (860 issues to be exact) featuring historic essays and thoughtful commentary by the likes of Carl Henry, Billy Graham, and Elisabeth Elliot. If a flood or fire took them, we may have lost that content forever.
You can imagine then, that when our basement flooded in the summer of 2017, my mind immediately went to those unscanned issues of CT. That was when we started working on what would become a two-year project:
digitizing the full archives of Christianity Today. With the help of Faithlife and Logos Bible Software, we were able to digitize not only the 860 issues, but over 15,000+ individual articles.
Whew! I'm happy to announce that you can now access all of this historic content
in one place. In addition to CT magazine, you'll find the full archives of
Leadership Journal,
Books & Culture,
Christian History, and The Behemoth. It's an amazing storehouse of Christian journalism, now available at your fingertips.
I hope you'll enjoy these as much as we have. And if you're not already a CT subscriber, now is a great time to join. In fact, here's a special link you can use to
subscribe for only $30, a 25% savings.
While you're at it, be sure to check out some of our editors' picks below!
