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The Christian Century began its life in 1884 as The Christian Oracle within the Disciples of Christ denomination. This publication started in Des Moines, Iowa, before moving to Chicago around the turn of the 20th century.
Charles Clayton Morrison purchased the struggling periodical shortly after the financial struggles led to a mortgage foreclosure sale in 1908. He quickly rebranded it as nondenominational to reach a broader audience beyond one church group.
During World War II, writers such as Galen Fisher published critiques opposing the internment of Japanese Americans. These articles helped raise public awareness about government policies affecting citizens of Japanese descent.
Accusations of antisemitic content surfaced during Charles Clayton Morrison's editorial reign throughout the 1930s and 1940s because some articles opposed American intervention in World War II specifically regarding Jewish persecution under Nazi rule. One piece argued moral equivalence between alleged Jewish actions and Nazi crimes against Jews while another condemned American Jews for maintaining their distinct cultural identity separate from mainstream society.
Influential writers like Reinhold Niebuhr shaped the magazine's intellectual legacy over its long history alongside Jane Addams, Albert Schweitzer, and W. E. B. DuBois who contributed articles spanning decades of publication. Religious figures such as Thomas Merton and Billy Graham appeared alongside political leaders including John F. Kennedy and Dwight D. Eisenhower.