Generate Magazine – A New Magazine with Many Voices

Here is an interview with my friends at Generate. They are pulling together art, story and innovation - and committing it to print. A permanent record of a snap shot in time, focused on the conversation we are having in this Ning group. I have posted the show notes below (you can also download the video and a full PDF copy of the magazine at http://TheOOZE.tv).

Hope you enjoy the episode and consider submitting your art / story to Generate,
Spencer
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They could have created an e-zine or a blog, but intentionally made a printed magazine, Generate Magazine, as a platform to bring together the many voices of the church and to show what is happening in the church and all the many streams of emerging Christian thinking and practice. The creators of Generate Magazine (Makeesha Fischer, Paul Soupiset, & Tim Snyder) talk with Spencer Burke, host of ThinkFWD, about the inaugural edition which has been at least two years in the making. Their desire is to include art, articles, poetry, and other media and to flatten the playing field. “There have been many great books written about emerging Church, but only a very few voices are heard through books,” say the magazine’s creators. “A lot of contributors in this first edition have never been published before, and a magazine format allows many more people to participate.”

What are they looking for in terms of art and articles for future magazines? They want voices from communities of faith that have a Kingdom hope. Many of these stories are local or regional and so their stories may not get a wide audience. This magazine is a place to tell those stories. It is also a place for art, simply for art’s sake—not as illustration of something else, or as a supporting element, but just for the value of the art. If you are an artist, a poet, a thinker, Generate Magazine is a forum for you. Its creators say, “Look for the gaps in this magazine, and in the larger conversation. When you see them, fill them. If in a year, this magazine only represents one voice, one perspective, then it has failed. Because when we have many expressions of Christianity, many voices, many streams of emerging faith—then we represent the body of Christ, and the bigness of God.”