Since 2003, RELEVANT has been the leading magazine covering God, progressive culture and intentional living. The stories we tell are at the intersection of faith and culture—the places where life is really lived. Our magazine is not about "being relevant"—it's that God is relevant, He is relevant to every aspect of our lives. (And yes, we cover what's relevant to you.) RELEVANT's readers are culturally savvy Christians primarily college-age to 30s. We reach about 800,000 readers a month, publishing every other month in print and iPad, as well as daily online.
Who are we? We’re twenty- and thirtysomething Christians seeking God and striving to impact the world around us. We love great art—whether that be music, movies, books or visual design. We are people who want to live well—to live sustainably, artfully and outwardly. We are pro-Church and want to love our neighbors as ourselves. We are daily seeking how God is at work in the world. We try to publish ideas that break stereotypes, challenge the status quo and spur a generation to know God and change the world.
Cameron Strang founded RELEVANT Media Group on June 1, 2000, when he was 24. It's a self-contained, for-profit business not affiliated with any other companies, denominations or organizations. We published books from 2001-2006 (R.I.P., RELEVANT Books), launched RELEVANTmagazine.com in March 2002, and the print magazine in March 2003. In September 2011, we reimagined the magazine for a ground-breaking iPad edition available in the iTunes App Store.
We've been adding new products pretty much every year, including our 150,000-circulation social justice magazine, Reject Apathy, the RELEVANT Magazine College Guides, RELEVANT.fm, RELEVANT.tv and more.
You can subscribe to RELEVANT for only $14.95 a year (six issues, plus a ton of extras)—68 percent off the newsstand rate. With each subscription, you'll also get four quarterly RELEVANT Collection albums featuring exclusive performances and top tracks from our favorite bands, six print magazines, six iPad issues and two issues of Reject Apathy. That's a $137 value for $14.95.
OUR PURPOSE
RELEVANT Media Group is a multimedia company whose purpose is to impact culture and give voice to what God is doing in and through our generation. We believe encountering God changes lives, so the magazine looks at how we can live that out in tangible, intentional and thoughtful ways. We talk about culture and real-life issues that other faith-based magazines might shy away from, because we believe it's important to address the gritty stuff of life—even when it makes us uncomfortable. If it's relevant to our readers, you'll find it on our pages.
Here's a rundown of everything we're currently working on:
RELEVANTmagazine.com is the daily updated, interactive counterpart of RELEVANT magazine. Together, they have become the leading platforms reaching a generation of culturally savvy world-changers hungry for God.
To get the full RELEVANT experience, be sure to subscribe to our print magazine and come back to the website every day. Some of our recent online add-ons include our College Guides, RELEVANT.fm, Reject Apathy, The Drop and RELEVANT.tv.
If you have an iPad, check out the RELEVANT Tablet Edition. Each issue is only $2.99 in the App Store, and print subscribers get it for free.
Don't miss out on what 60,000 other weekly listeners have discovered—be sure to download the always entertaining RELEVANT Podcast, featuring interviews, live studio performances and some fun, nonsensical discussions with our editors. A new one is posted every Friday.
Remember to visit the other members of the RELEVANT family—Neue, our magazine for leaders shaping the future of the Church; and Reject Apathy, the 150,000-circulation magazine about social justice, sustainable change and sacrificial service.
Want more? Check out RELEVANTstore.com for independent art, apparel, books and back issues of our magazines.
To get our latest content in your inbox each Tuesday, sign up for our newsletter, RELEVANT This Week. (And no, we won’t give your email address to anyone else.)
WHAT WE BELIEVE
RELEVANT is a multimedia company looking to impact culture with the message that a personal relationship with God is a relevant—and vital—aspect of a fulfilled life. We want to engage our generation in a deeper conversation about faith, culture and living intentionally. We want to challenge worldviews and cause people to see God outside the box they’ve put Him in.
We believe God is alive and speaking both inside and outside the four walls of the church. That’s why we cover life issues and entertainment next to social justice and challenging faith topics—to look at the things relevant to our lives and world, and how we can make a difference. We believe a lot can be learned by looking more deeply at things that challenge you. But we also believe in the importance of the Church and want to be catalysts for change rather than part of the mass exodus of our generation leaving it.
Christians can’t be complacent living in a Christian bubble and never engaging the world they live in. We want to live the way Jesus did, hanging out with the very people at whom religious leaders turned up their noses. Through relationship, love and understanding, the world was changed. We don’t think believers should be known primarily for legalism and bigotry. We believe in dialogue—about Truth, about faith, about freedom in Christ.
Whether 20 years into it or just starting out, if you’re at this website you’re probably on a spiritual journey. Christianity is not a destination. No one has it all figured out. And because of that you’ll find the articles in RELEVANT ask questions a lot of others won't, which is something we feel is vital to our spiritual growth. We need to never stop pursuing Truth and authenticity with passion.
But we do believe. We believe that eternal life and the only true freedom is found in Christ. We believe a relationship with Him changes things forever. You are not the person you used to be after you find Him. You may not be perfect—we’re all sinners, after all—but you don’t live the way you used to. Jesus told us to be in the world, yet not of it. We’re supposed to stand out and make a difference. We’re supposed to live for something bigger than ourselves.
That’s not something we can magically attain overnight. Following Christ and figuring out what it means to be like Him is a lifelong quest. It’s the hardest, longest and most rewarding thing we will ever undertake. It is what will define us—not only in this life, but the life to come.
For more information about Christianity, we recommend checking out the Bible (it is the source, after all) and finding a good local church where you can meet other people like you.
CONTACT US
RELEVANT MEDIA GROUP
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