CT Archives Project

America prepared for a bicentennial, and religious identity dominated the presidential campaign.

CT hosted debates about the charismatic movement and women’s ordination.

In 1974, CT saw trouble in the White House, Chile, and Cyprus, and in the American fascination with exorcists.

CT condemned the Supreme Court ruling in Roe v. Wade and questioned the seriousness of Watergate.

In 1972, American evangelicals were concerned about religious liberty around the world and moral decline at home.

In 1971, CT said the Jesus People were not just another baby boomer fad.

As America teetered on the edge of revolution, the magazine called for more innovation, responsibility, sensitivity, and stewardship.

CT helped readers make sense of wild cultural changes in 1969.

In 1968, CT grappled with the Vietnam War and the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy.

CT reported on 1967 “message music,” the radicalism on American college campuses, and how the Six-Day War fit into biblical prophecy.