Career
Born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, Bayly earned his Bachelor at Wheaton College, Illinois, in 1940, and then entered Faith Theological Seminary to gain his Bachelor's Degree in 1945. Bayly was awarded honorary doctorates from Sterling College and Gordon–Conwell Theological Seminary. He was initial east coast staff director for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, 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, Illinois (now located in Colorado Springs, Colorado).
He died at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Among his published works is The Gospel Blimp, which was adapted for film in 1967.
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 from 1961 to 1986. Tim Bayly was Executive Director of the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood from 1996 to 2000.
