I am pleased to announce the coming of Barrie Doyle as assistant news editor. Mr. Doyle comes to us from Canada, where he was religion editor of the Kitchener-Waterloo Record. He and his lovely wife are awaiting the arrival of their first child. Mr. Doyle will supplement the work of Mr. Plowman and complete our editorial staff.
CHRISTIANITY TODAY has acquired the book club called Evangelical Books. Membership information and an inviting introductory offer will be found on the inside back cover of this issue. This acquisition opens for us another aspect of the ministry of the printed word.
This issue contains a report of Billy Graham’s campaign in Cleveland, some meetings of which will later be telecast around the country. We urge readers to pray for his campaign in the Watts area of Los Angeles early next year. Dr. Edward Hill of the Mt. Zion Baptist Church is one of the main strategists for this undertaking.
Our lead editorial deals with a subject dear to the hearts of several of our editors and, we are sure, to many of our readers: sports. In this Olympic month, Christians would do well, our editorial suggests, to take a critical look at the place sports has assumed in American life and in their own lives.
