Joseph Tate Bayly was an American

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 author

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 and publishing executive.

Born in Germantown

Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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, Pennsylvania

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, Bayly earned his BA

Bachelor of Arts

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 at Wheaton College

Wheaton College (Illinois)

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, Illinois

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, in 1940, and then entered Faith Theological Seminary to gain his BD

Bachelor of Divinity

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 in 1945. In 1944, Bayly married Mary Lou DeWalt, a classmate at Wheaton College. Bayly was awarded honorary doctorates from Sterling College

Sterling College (Kansas)

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 and Gordon–Conwell Theological Seminary.
He was initial east coast staff director for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship

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, editor of His magazine, and director of InterVarsity Press. At the time of his death, Bayly was president of David C. Cook Publishing Company of Elgin

Elgin, Illinois

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, Illinois (now located in Colorado Springs

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, Colorado

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).

He died at the Mayo Clinic

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 in Rochester

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, Minnesota.

Among his published works is The Gospel Blimp, which was adapted for film in 1967.

David and Tim Bayly

Two of Joseph T. Bayly's sons, David Bayly and Tim Bayly, are Presbyterian Church in America

Presbyterian Church in America

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 pastors in the United States

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. The Bayly Brothers are widely known for their writings at Bayly Blog: Out of our minds too…, named for their father’s column titled "Out of My Mind," published in Eternity magazine

Eternity (magazine)

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 from 1961 to 1986. Tim Bayly was Executive Director

Executive director

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 of the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood

Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood

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 from 1996 to 2000.

Selected bibliography

• The Gospel Blimp (1967)
• Congo Crisis (1967)
• Out of My Mind (1970) ISBN 0842347909
• The View from a Hearse (1973) ISBN 0912692014
• Psalms of My Life (2000) ISBN 156476785X
• Winterflight (1981) ISBN 1564767868

External links

• The Gospel Blimp — at the Internet Movie Database
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• Bayly Blog: Out of our minds too… — edited by the Bayly brothers