Have you heard of magazines like Christian Today, Guidepost, Charisma, New Man, Today’s Christian Woman, World Magazine, CCM Magazine, Christian Living, Christian Parenting Today and Christian History and Biography? If you haven’t then simply browsing for Christian Magazine on the internet would usher you into the world of the inspirational and Kingdom based magazines. The above named magazines are the top 10 Christians magazines (not in any particular order) which have over time proffered a Christian Outlook to various life issues like Politics & Governance, Fashion & Lifestyle, Entertainment, Business & Finance, Family & Parenting, Sports and so much more.
Back home in Nigeria, we have had names like LIFEWAY, XPRESSIONS, ANOINTED & CONSECRATED (A&C), STOMP and LE FEU which have all tried to replicate what their foreign counterparts are doing but have been stifled out by various factors majorly- Financing, Ads & Sponsorship and also lack of support from Christians themselves.
LIFEWAY which seems to be the most successful amongst them all focuses on the Church, Pastors & Ministers as well as Christian Living. It has however not lived up to its fullest potential as it is not as visible as other mainstream magazines. It was however last seen as far back as 2007 raising questions on its existence.
Back home in Nigeria, we have had names like LIFEWAY, XPRESSIONS, ANOINTED & CONSECRATED (A&C), STOMP and LE FEU which have all tried to replicate what their foreign counterparts are doing but have been stifled out by various factors majorly- Financing, Ads & Sponsorship and also lack of support from Christians themselves.
LIFEWAY which seems to be the most successful amongst them all focuses on the Church, Pastors & Ministers as well as Christian Living. It has however not lived up to its fullest potential as it is not as visible as other mainstream magazines. It was however last seen as far back as 2007 raising questions on its existence.
Then we have XPRESSIONS which targeted the Youths and the Upwardly Mobile with a major focus on Personalities, Lifestyle and Entertainment. It did so well that it was awarded runners up at the maiden edition of the Future Awards 2006 in the Magazine of the Year category. First published in December 2004and with 4 editions under its belt, the magazine was rested in 2007. The Publishers are however working on a broader concept to meet people’s yearnings.
There was also ANOINTED AND CONSECRATED (A&C) which had the same focus as LIFEWAY and reference can only be made to the edition which had Bishop T. D. Jakes on the cover and nothing more.
Another magazine which stood the test of time with about 9 editions to its credit was STOMP which had Muyiwa Sowunmi as its Publisher/ CEO. STOMP’s core focus was Music and nothing more- album reviews/ previews, artistes feature (local and foreign), vocal coaching, music news amongst others. The major flaw of the Magazine was that it had a limited coverage and was never networked into the mainstream like XPRESSIONS and LIFEWAY.
Babawale Olajubu led Xalt Consult published LE FEU which was a general interest Christian Magazine but it never went past the first edition which was published in August 2005 as a quarterly magazine.
Dove Media too made a brief but unceremonious appearance with DOVE BILLBOARDS but little or nothing is known about it till it went into extinction.
After all said and done, you sure can see that the magazines died (or are just asleep), but of course they could rise again with determination to succeed.
Signing out as always Gospel Entertainment Advoc8!!!!!!!!!
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