Editorial

by Ben Hoyt

Here it is at last: the first issue. All twenty wonderful pages in full colo... uh, full black-and-white.

Putting together a magazine is a new adventure for me, and it’s been a huge learning curve. Back and forth with contributors, pretending I know how to write. Playing with the computer, trying to make it think I’m a graphic artist. And finally, one fine morning, off to the printers.

Groom on a unicycle

But it’s been lots of fun, and we hope you enjoy it.

What we’re about

Prism is put together by a small bunch of New Zealanders with a big-hearted Christian vision and a good dose of enthusiasm. Our aim is to encourage quality, creativity, and localness.

People have more than enough to read, but so much of it’s junky, irrelevant, or just plain boring. We wanted a magazine that meant something to us, with articles by people we knew. So we had to start one.

Prism is not a Church or a youth group magazine; it’s simply a magazine put together by Christians. We’re keen to publish articles about almost anything in our lives. We want to encourage each other to think and act Christianly about all of life, not just Church.

We know we haven’t exactly achieved all this in the first issue. But it’s a start, and aiming high is a good thing.

www.PrismMagazine.co.nz

If you haven’t been to our website yet, do check it out. We’ve set up an online discussion forum [no longer exists] where you can talk about any of the articles, or any other Prism-related issue. Just go to the home page and click “Discussion.”

The forum doesn’t completely replace letters to the editor or future articles, of course, so if you’ve got something you want printed in the next issue, just send it to me.

Subscribe or support

If you like what we do, feel free to subscribe (for only NZ$20 a year—that’s three or four issues). We’re not a business, but we print with real paper and ink, so if you want to help Prism look nice, please think seriously about giving a donation.

We’re also really keen to get our readers and friends to write articles for us. We’d love to have you read quality stuff written by people you know, or write quality stuff for your friends to read.

For more information about any of these things, please browse the website or contact me.

Credits, A–Z

  • Paul Archbald
  • Lynton Baird
  • Anna Bartlett
  • Kathy Bartlett
  • Matthew Bartlett
  • Anonymous Doners
  • Ed & Liana Havelaar
  • Berwyn & Veronica Hoyt
  • Bryan Hoyt
  • Franci Hoyt
  • Arjan Karels
  • Jonathan M.
  • Anna Mulholland
  • Andrea Munroe
  • Mark Munroe
  • Joel Rademaker
  • Genevieve Smith
  • Hans Snoek
  • Tim Sterne
  • Aaron Stewart
  • Robert & Laurel van Wichen
  • Esther Zorn