Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy name
  give glory, for thy mercy, and for thy truth's sake.
                                                    Psalm 115:1



The Christian View  --  A Ministry of Christian Journalism


About The Christian View:
       The Christian View was founded by Karen Brewer as a ministry of sharing the Gospel through journalism. The mission of The Christian View magazine and The Christian View online is to seek to be a lighthouse for Christ, helping to spread the Good News of the Gospel and to be a witnessing tool, sharing the Christian faith and touching souls for Christ. The focus of stories in The Christian View is always on the Lord Jesus Christ and how God is working in the lives of Christians today. Committed to journalistic and moral integrity, The Christian View is conservative and Christ-centered, always prints the truth, and offers positive, inspiring stories that honor God.  
        The Christian View reaches thousands of readers through the print magazine as well as through the internet, as readers from all 50 states in the U.S. and from 127 countries around the world visit this website. For details, click on the page: Reaching the World for Christ.


Contact:
        Subscriptions:  The price for a subscription of the print magazine covers the cost of postage. For details on subscribing, contact The Christian View by e-mail at TheChristianView@aol.com.
        Advertising:  Advertisements enable churches, businesses, and other organizations or individuals to publicize their special events, products, or services while supporting Christian media. As the cost for printing the magazine is funded through paid advertising, the advertisers are partners in this ministry. For inquiries on helping to share the Gospel through advertising in The Christian View, contact the Publisher by e-mail at TheChristianView@aol.com.  The Christian View reserves the right to refuse advertising.
        E-mail subscription list: To join The Christian View's free e-mail subscription list, and to receive periodic e-mails with important announcements from The Christian View, please send an e-mail with contact information to TheChristianView@aol.com.  The Christian View highly respects the privacy of its readers and does not share e-mail addresses or any contact information with any other party.


About the Publisher/Editor:
        Karen Brewer is a native of Easley, South Carolina.
        She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree, with a major in English and a minor in journalism, from Clemson University. In addition to English courses, which included American and British literature and poetry, playwriting, short story writing, film, and journalism, as a Liberal Arts major, she also studied American history, world history,  U.S. government, U.S. Constitutional law, philosophy, astronomy, calculus, and three foreign languages. 
        While a student at Clemson, she wrote for The Tiger, the university's student newspaper, was published in a local newspaper along with fellow journalism students for a special project about the university, and co-created with fellow journalism students a publication for Helping Hands, a shelter/home in the Clemson area for abused and neglected children. 
        Also while an undergraduate student at Clemson, she worked for three years for Clemson University's Departments of University Relations and News Services. As a student writer, she wrote press releases for the university, wrote a television commercial about Clemson University which aired on the local NBC affiliate WYFF Channel 4, and wrote for the university's alumni magazine, Clemson World. 
        Earning from Clemson University her Master's degree in English, she studied American and British literature and poetry.
        While in graduate school and shortly after graduate school, she wrote two film screenplays -- one set in the South in the 1930's and one set in the West in the 1890's -- which garnered honors in national screenwriting competitions.
        She became a newspaper Editor and, in addition to editing duties, reported on city, county, state, and national government; local and state education; law enforcement and crime; veterans; charitable organizations; churches; and various other beats. She was honored by the Press Association with awards for hard news, spot news and photography, and feature writing, including, in her first year, first place in the state in sports feature writing for "Say It's So, Joe", her in-depth story on the life of Greenville, South Carolina native 'Shoeless' Joe Jackson and efforts to reinstate him into Major League Baseball and to induct him into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
        Her stories and photographs have also been published elsewhere, including in several issues of Sandlapper: The Magazine of South Carolina, when she was requested by local historians to create several articles about the historic town of Central. 
        Influenced by the Christian faith and witness of Tommy Bowden, then Head Football Coach at her college alma mater, she dedicated her life to Christ and became involved in church.
        Turning her writing efforts from secular journalism to stories that share the Christian faith, she founded this Christian magazine.     
        Upon recommendation by a well-respected Pastor/evangelist, she was asked by the South Carolina Baptist Convention and voted upon by Convention messengers at the 2006 annual meeting to serve with six Southern Baptist Pastors on the seven-member Resolutions Committee for the 2007 annual meeting.


About the Printing Company:
        The Christian View magazine is printed by Hiott Printing Company, established in 1924 in Pickens, South Carolina. 
        As Publisher, Karen Brewer chose Hiott Printing out of respect for the Hiott family and because of the quality of their work. 
        Four generations of the Hiott family were newspaper owners, publishers, editors, and writers for more than half a century until selling their newspaper in 1978 and entering the printing business full-time. 
        Hiott Printing continued to print that newspaper, of which Brewer was editor, until 2002, when the newspaper was sold by the owner to an out-of-state company. It was subsequently re-sold.
        Davey Hiott, son of Eloise and the late Gary Hiott, Jr., grandson of the late Gary Hiott, Sr., and great grandson of the late Rev. D.W. (David Weston) Hiott, is currently a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives in addition to owning and managing Hiott Printing.


        

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