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• Finally, I have clipped numerous articles by John Stott, Philip Yancey, and Charles Colson. Somewhere in my apartment is an article Philip Yancey wrote about accompanying Russian Orthodox clergy on a prison visit and seeing how an inmate's request for prayer was met only after making suitably solemn arrangements. Also in my apartment somewhere is an article about Harvard child psychiatrist Robert Coles and what he learned from the family of the first black child to integrate a Southern school.
  
  

Where and when to stop! I could find a similarly diverse sample of CT's subject matter through the years in another file drawer. It can be a hard choice, deciding whether to reread old articles or open up the new issue that just arrived.

Fifty years of reading Christianity Today has brought me from college age to retirement age and has influenced my thinking and actions as a Christian. CT has not told me what to think. Instead, it has taught me one can "think Christianly" about many issues, including those related to family, church, business, economics, and human relationships. It has helped me to see and understand brothers and sisters in Christ across denominational boundaries, national boundaries, and generational boundaries. It has represented the best in Christian love, civility, and courtesy.

Happy anniversary, Christianity Today—and many thanks!

Marilyn Driscoll is the author of Devotions for Caregivers: A Month's Supply of Prayer (Paulist, 2006) and a deaconess at Calvary Baptist Church in New York City.

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Christianity Today's other articles on its 50th anniversary include:

Where We Are and How We Got Here | 50 years ago, evangelicals were a sideshow of American culture. Since then, it's been a long, strange trip. Here's a look at the influences that shaped the movement. By Mark A. Noll (Sept. 29, 2006)

Sidebar: 'Truth from the Evangelical Viewpoint' | What Christianity Today meant to the movement 50 years ago. (Sept. 29, 2006)

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