With this issue, the Christianity Today Institute begins its fourth year of theological service. Begun in 1985 as a “think tank” for the evaluation of cutting-edge issues in the context of our evangelical framework, the institute today has over 50 fellows and resource scholars who have had a hand in the development of 13 major supplements published in CHRISTIANITY TODAY magazine. And under the guiding hand of institute dean (and CT senior editor) Kenneth S. Kantzer and a number of significant others, the institute is today not only making final plans for the balance of 1988, but looking ahead to 1989 and beyond, sorting through hundreds of topics to select the few that demand the attention of the church.
Among those “significant others” providing direction and valuable insight has been Lyn Cryderman. As institute editor over the past year-and-a-half, Lyn has standardized the look and feel of the individual supplements, all with a journalist’s eye to the nontheologically trained reader. (One need not be a theologian to gain insight and encouragement from each institute supplement.) He has also met his deadlines consistently—an everyday editorial challenge complicated by the coordinating of hectic schedules of busy forum participants.
In short, Lyn has laid a strong track that senior associate editor David Neff (a CT veteran of three years) can follow as he assumes responsibilities for the institute with the March 18 supplement on televangelism.
As for Lyn, with this issue he assumes the news editorship—and with it, the challenge of meeting even tighter deadlines in the days ahead.
HAROLD B. SMITH, Managing Editor
