''Cornerstone'' was a newspaper and later a magazine published by

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, focusing on topics of

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faith and engagement with politics and culture. ''Cornerstone'' began as an 8-page black-and-white newspaper in 1971, printed at various locations by the itinerant Jesus People community. In 1973, its publication address settled permanently in

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, Illinois. ''Cornerstone'' quickly grew throughout the United States (and other countries) in artistic style, content, page count and circulation. The newspaper carried nearly a thousand addresses of "bulk distributors", providing an early networking vehicle for members of the

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and the Christian counterculture. The newspaper regularly focused on

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and musicians. It covered Christian evidence, racism, the drug culture,

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testimonies and stories from the Jesus People commune which published it. Subtitled "The National Jesus Paper", ''Cornerstone'' peaked in circulation at 250,000 copies by 1979, the year it changed to magazine format. Though its press run dropped by half with the change in format, its influence and literary variety matured. Regular features were poetry, short fiction, Christian visual and performing arts, news on cults and persecuted Christians, investigative reporting, and full-color comics. The ''Cornerstone'' logo on the cover changed each issue of its existence. The magazine received both criticism and praise for its

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Lauren Stratford Laurel Rose Willson (August 18, 1941 – April 8, 2002) was an American con artist. She authored books alleging Satanic ritual abuse (SRA), and later assumed the guise of a Holocaust survivor. Early life Willson was born in Tacoma, Washingt ...

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and

Mike Warnke Michael Alfred Warnke (born November 19, 1946) is an American Christian evangelist and comedian who was exposed in 1992 for inventing stories of his past as a Satanist. Before being debunked by the Christian magazine '' Cornerstone'', he was v ...

, who had made names for themselves with stories of first-hand involvement in Satanism and

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(which turned out to be untrue). ''Cornerstone'' magazine also spawned the

Cornerstone Festival Cornerstone Festival was a Christian music festival put on by Jesus People USA and held annually around July 4 near Bushnell, Illinois, drawing some 20,000 attendees each year. In a given year, many artists that played at Cornerstone also pl ...

. In 2003, ''Cornerstone'' ceased publication after publishing 124 issues over thirty-two years.

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