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Daniel Silliman was senior news editor. He previously worked as a crime reporter outside of Atlanta and earned a doctorate in American studies from the University of Heidelberg, in Germany. He lives in East Tennessee and is the author of Reading Evangelicals, One Lost Soul, and a forthcoming spiritual biography of P. T. Barnum.
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While tens of thousands flocked to campus, school officials met in a storage closet to make decisions that would “honor what is happening.”
His ministry, preparing to downsize in the wake of a new investigation, expresses regret for “misplaced trust” in a leader who used his esteem to conceal his sexual misconduct.
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CT helped readers make sense of wild cultural changes in 1969.
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CT reported on 1967 “message music,” the radicalism on American college campuses, and how the Six-Day War fit into biblical prophecy.
In 1966, CT reported on church activities but also on LSD, The Beatles, and the war in Vietnam.
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