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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.
The creed set the standard for orthodoxy for 1,700 years. But no one professes the faith today in the ancient Turkish town where it was written.
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.
History is full of Christians trying to figure out if other Christians really experienced the saving work they say they did.
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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CT reports on civil rights, the “death of God” theology, and an escalating conflict in Vietnam.
In 1964, CT urged Christians to “be what they really are—new men and women in Christ.”
CT reported on the assassination of a president, a Supreme Court ban on Bible-reading in schools, and Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech.
In 1962, CT engaged friends and enemies in the Cold War and the Second Vatican Council.
CT considered paperback books, the Peace Corps, and the first man in space.