Industry News

by Mark Winz

Campus Crusade for Christ, publisher of EPA-member publication Worldwide Challenge, announced that its organizational name within the United States will change to Cru over the next several months. The July 19 announcement was made to staff members during the organization’s U.S. staff conference in Fort Collins, Colo.

Cru, a shortened form of the word “Crusade,” has been used by local ministries on many campuses over the last decade. (The word "Crusade" is problematic, due to its historic meaning.) The organization also hopes to move away from the “Campus” identity since they now have ministries to many segments of society.

EPA's newest publication member is Comment Magazine, a daily online publication with a twice-yearly print edition. Published by the public policy think tank Cardus, Comment's purpose is to serve Christian leaders and culture makers with rooted, fresh ideas for the faithful practice of North American public life. Leaning on 2000 years of Christian thought," its purpose statement explains, "we seek a renewed social architecture. 'Not new wine into old wineskins, but old wine in new wineskins for festive drinking,'" in the words of Calvin Seerveld [Footprints in the Snow]. Welcome, Comment.

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Alissa Wilkinson, Brian Dijkema Co-editors.

Dan Postma, Managing Editor,

Robert Joustra, Senior Editor.

A belated welcome to Southern Tidings, which joined earlier this year.. Edited by Steven Norman, Southern Tidings has been the voice of the Southern Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists for over 100 years (since 1907).  Some of you may have met staff member Irisene Douce at the recent EPA convention in Chicago. Warm welcome to Steve, to Irisene, and to others on the staff.

Southern Tidings
Southern Union Conference of SDA
Editor: Steven Norman
http://www.southernunion.com/
3978 Memorial Drive
Decatur, GA 30032
404-299-1832

EPA also welcomes associate member Mary Nichelson, writer, editor, and avid reader. Mary focuses on reviewing Christian fiction, in particular. “The best stories are (Biblically) historical events accurately told in novel form.”

The company known for the last 30 years as Strang Communications rebranded itself as Charisma Media, effective Feb. 1. The name change correlates with a series of recent corporate shifts, including relaunching the company's flagship magazine and renaming its book division. Founder and CEO Steve Strang says the moves not only position Charisma Media for growth in the digital age, but also undergird the organization's purpose of inspiring people to radically change their world through the diversified resources the company produces.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--Citing unprecedented economic challenges facing the Executive Committee, Frank Page, president and chief executive officer of the EC since Oct. 1, announced structural and staffing changes on the Executive Committee staff in two memos sent to Executive Committee members on Nov. 17 and Nov. 29. Page informed the Executive Committee that he has reduced the EC staff from five divisions to three, combining the duties of two divisions and bringing another into the president's office.

The office of news services and the office of convention relations, separated into two offices since 1991, have been combined back into one office and will become the office of convention communications and relations. Given the economic situation the Executive Committee is facing, Page said he thought it "wise to return to this arrangement, at least for the immediate future."