A magazine-format program launched in 1985 by Faith for Today. First known as Christian Lifestyle Magazine, it featured interviews and stories of people who are making a difference by doing. The name was changed to Lifestyle Magazine in 1991. Topics range from such issues as AIDS, incest, and domestic violence to nutrition and drug addiction and therapy. It also focuses on relationships-in marriage, parenting, and with God.
Dan Matthews, as host and executive producer of Lifestyle Magazine, serves as moderator between on-camera guests, the 200-plus studio audience, and the thousands in the weekly listening audience. Drs. Rebekah Cheng and Edwin Nebblett help make up the regular team of medical professionals, and Dr. John McDougall often fields questions about nutrition.
Lifestyle Magazine has received many media honors and reaches a potential audience of 40 million homes each week. During the February 1992 Nielsen ratings, the program tied for first place in the devotional category for numbers of households per broadcast station. In June 1993 the Nielsen ratings ranked the program number one in its time slot in metropolitan New York City-the largest market in the world. Since November 1992, 13 new radio stations have been added to the list of television stations carrying the program when an audio version was offered to the Adventist Radio Network stations. In addition to being carried over the Armed Forces Television Network, Lifestyle Magazine was being broadcast twice each week over Adventist World Radio-Europe in 1994 and is telecast by a station in Athens that also serves the areas of Corinth and Thessalonica.