''Premier Christianity'' is a monthly

Evangelical Christian Evangelicalism (), also called evangelical Christianity or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide interdenominational movement within Protestant Christianity that affirms the centrality of being " born again", in which an individual expe ...

magazine published in the

United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the European mainland, continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotlan ...

. The magazine was started in 1965 as a newsletter with name ''Buzz''. It was sponsored by the organization Music Gospel Outreach (MGO) and shared a similar youth-focus with MGO and the soon arriving

Jesus movement The Jesus movement was an evangelical Christian movement which began on the West Coast of the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s and primarily spread throughout North America, Europe, and Central America, before it subsided in the l ...

and the popularity of

Jesus music Jesus music, known as gospel beat music in the United Kingdom, is a style of Christian music that originated on the West Coast of the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s. This musical genre developed in parallel to the Jesus movemen ...

, which boosted evangelical youth culture in the United Kingdom. Reaching a circulation of 31,500 in 1980, ''Buzz'' became the best-selling Christian news publication in the United Kingdom. In October 1988, publishers Elm House Christian communications, based in New Malden, Surrey relaunched the magazine as ''Twenty First Century Christian''. Circulation fell to only 18,000 by 1989. The name was subsequently changed to ''Alpha'' as the youth-focused publishing enterprise reoriented towards an adult audience. ''Youthwork'' magazine was launched as a supplement to ''Alpha'' and became its own independent magazine in 1992. Acquired by Trinity Square in 1996, ''Alpha'' was rebranded ''Christianity''. Premier Media Group acquired ''Christianity'' in 1999. In 2001, the new publishers merged the magazine with ''Renewal'', which they also owned, titling the combined publication ''Christianity and Renewal''. The title changed back to ''Christianity'' in 2004 and then was updated again to ''Premier Christianity'' in 2014.

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