A CT pioneer on her three most meaningful articles, how the Internet affects her job, and that time the date went missing from the magazine’s front cover.
Katelyn Beaty is moving on. Christianity Today’s first female and youngest print managing editor, the leader of This Is Our City and founder of Her.meneutics, and one of CT’s first podcast hosts, Beaty cemented her legacy in her nine years at the organization.
Katelyn spoke with Morgan and The Calling’s Richard Clark this week on Quick to Listen as they discussed the last decade.
On the success of Her.meneutics: “I don’t attribute that to my stealth leadership. It was really about starting a conversation, gathering more women writers, and giving them a chance to write for the print magazine. … A lot of those writers ended up having a larger platform to the broader church and not just staying in their lady cocoon.”
On her first CT editorial calling Christians to stop bashing Hillary Clinton: “Jim Wallis liked it. I guess that’s no surprise.”
On reading CT in college: “I remember printing [the editorials] off as if ‘this is the premiere Christian opinion on this topic. This is a model on cultural engagement.’”
On the importance of genre: “Working on this upcoming Ann Voskamp profile, for awhile I thought, ‘Should this just be a straight interview?’ She’s super interesting to listen to. Very articulate. She speaks in complete sentences, which is not true of all our interview subjects. But I ultimately decided to go with the profile genre because it allowed me to draw in what others have said about her.”
On the Internet: “I think the temptation is to look at what’s happening online and try to replicate it in a print magazine.”
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