LONDON - 10 January 2008 - 220 words
Jesuits
to launch new on-line journal
The state of ecumenism today, what scientists think about
faith, and the European Treaty are among the topics that will
be addressed as the British Province launches Thinking Faith this
month.
The online journal, which has been developed by Jesuit Media Initiatives
in close collaboration with an editorial team of Jesuits and lay
co-workers, will be officially launched next Friday, 18 January,
at a reception attended by journalists, theologians, writers and
others associated with the project.
Edited by Peter Scally SJ, the web site
will be open to the widest set of subjects from science to theology,
policy studies to poetry and spirituality to culture and development.
It will build on the tradition of the former British Jesuit journal,
The Month, contributing to debates and issues from a British (and
European) perspective. But unlike a printed publication, Thinking
Faith will not have a weekly or monthly edition, but a 'rolling'
format. Articles may be added at any time, with subscribers
informed by email alert, enabling a faster response to news, events
and issues of concern.
Among the first contributors to the online journal-the launch
of which will coincide with the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity-will
be Michael Hurley SJ of the Irish Province on where our hopes
for ecumenism stand now, Dan Madigan SJ on interfaith dialogue,
and broadcaster and Anglican deacon, Cindy Kent, on the situation
of the Church of England. British Jesuit, Frank Turner, who is
Director of the Jesuit European Office in Brussels (OCIPE), will
be writing on the European treaty; while Raúl Gonzalez
SJ of Venezuela and Anthony Egan SJ (South Africa) will
be addressing the Chávez government and the ANC's new leader
respectively.
Jesuit brother, Guy Consolmagno of the Vatican Observatory will
be another contributor as the journal goes online, alongside Jim
Corkery from Ireland, a noted expert on the writings of Pope Benedict
XVI, who will be offering his views on Spe Salvi.
Thinking Faith will be launched at approximately 7pm on Friday,
18 January 2008 on www.thinkingfaith.org.
To be informed whenever new articles are uploaded, please contact:
jmi@jesuits.org.uk
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