The Christian Challenge(TM) was founded in 1962 by Dorothy A. Faber and continued for many years under the editorship of the late Auburn Faber Traycik. The Christian Challenge is supported by the Foundation for Christian Theology (FCC), a 501(c)(3) religious organization.
The Mission of the FCC
To defend the Christian faith as embodied in traditional Anglicanism, defining holy Scripture, and enshrined in the historic books of common prayer.
To work for the unity of the church under Christ, based on sound doctrine and discipline, as exemplified by the Chicago-Lambeth quadrilateral of 1886 to 1888 and the Affirmation of St. Louis.
To resist false teachings with in the Church.
To assist the Church in her primary mission of proclaiming the gospel of Jesus Christ.
The “new” Christian Challenge
For 50 years, the Challenge faithfully presented news, opinion, scholarly analysis, and bits of humor relating to the worldwide Anglican Communion. The magazine focused on the stunning and rapid changes and decline within churches that formed that Communion beginning in the 1960s.
Over nearly 1/2 century, the Anglican expression of Christianity has been buffeted and fragmented by the waves of modernism, materialism, and theological novelty. The challenge and its editor were simultaneously trying to keep up with new media while attempting to maintain the traditional print publication. This proved difficult if not impossible.
With the untimely passing of our beloved editor-in-chief, those of us who wished to see the Challenge continue were forced to reassess how content is to be provided to our readers. We also wished not to sacrifice the high editorial standards set by the late Auburn Traycik and to increase content of interest to traditional Anglicans and Anglo Catholics.
To this end, we are republishing the Challenge as both a blog and ane=E publication. In the first instance, the Challenge will present at emergent stories and news items pertinent to traditional Christians and Anglicans. These items are designed to keep readers abreast of new developments. Initially, six times a year, the Challenge will send in-depth analyses opinion, review, more detailed news items, and other bits that we hope you will find interesting. For those of our readers who lack computer access, we hope to be able to print and send copy on an on-demand basis.
Obviously, this will take support of the readers. With the electronic format, we hope to keep subscription costs very low. We will, of course, be grateful for additional financial support beyond the cost of subscription. While our staff, writers and contributors initially will be unpaid, it is our hope that, over time, the Challenge will again be able to provide small stipends to the incredibly talented and devoted people who contribute to it.
More importantly, we earnestly solicit articles, opinion, reviews, and news from around the world. Particularly with one going discussions amongst traditional Anglicans in the United States one unity, we are especially interested in hearing and reporting the news of those efforts.