Who really shaped Christianity Today in the early years?
During those first two years I couldn’t get very many people to go along with my idea for the magazine. I didn’t have time; I was preaching all the time. If it hadn’t been for Dr. Bell, there would never have been a Christianity Today, and if it hadn’t been for Carl Henry, it would not have been quite what it became. Carl Henry was God’s man for it. When Dr. Bell saw that Howard Pew would back us financially, he became seriously interested. He said, “I’ve got to give up something. I will give up my surgical practice and go into this thing fulltime.” Well, he was able to pull the whole thing together. He got Marcellus Kik, a Presbyterian minister, to come in to help him. He was a tremendous help in the beginning, before the magazine ever came out. Carl Henry was brought into a situation that had been pretty well established by Dr. Bell and Dr. Kik. In my judgment, Christianity Today is a combination of the thinking of not only the board, but also of Carl Henry and Nelson Bell. Dr. Bell
