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Email a FriendPosted by Maggie on Wednesday, Apr 20, 2011 12:47 PM (EDT):
Looks fantastic! I’d love to see a similar teen mag aimed at boys, too!
New Teen Magazine Looks Great
Ink & Fairydust fills a need for our teens!
Posted by Lisa Hendey in Reviews on Wednesday, April 20, 2011 11:00 AM
I’m always happy to promote the work of fellow Catholics, and especially when their projects are as greatly needed and as totally cool as Ink and Fairydust Magazine. Shaylynn, one of the teens involved in this super project, wrote me recently and invited me to help spread the word. Here’s what she has to say about the magazine:
My name is Shaylynn, a 16 year old homeschooled Catholic, and for the past two years I’ve been working on the Ink and Fairydust Magazine. It is a free, Christian e-mag, and we’re trying to get the word out. It all started as a pet project by the teens of the Fairy Tale Novel Forum (a forum of Regina Doman’s Fairy Tale Novel fans). Over the past year the “newsletter” has grown, along with our skills, and we’ve also started opening up positions for people who are not involved in the forum.
I&F is not specifically Catholic (about 1/4 of our writers are conservative Protestant), but we have a very Catholic worldview. Obviously you won’t find anything anti-Catholic like most Christian teen magazines have, and we do talk about the saints and such. However, the focus is more on living a Christian lifestyle than about teaching the faith. Actually, our whole idea is that if we, Christian teenagers, write about anything and everything that interests us, Christ will shine through anyway.
The magazine is focused on faith and creativity. Many of us hope to be writers or artists when we grow up, and we all share an almost geeky love of history, literature, fantasy, and goofiness.
We’re all teenagers or early twenties (the youngest contributor is 13, and our editor is the oldest at 22). All of us have poured huge amounts of time and energy into this project, and we would love to share it with everyone!
If you have a teen who falls into this age range or if you’re simply looking for some great reading material, check out Ink and Fairydust Magazine!
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Posted by Michelle on Thursday, Apr 21, 2011 4:17 PM (EDT):
Something like this will be great! I have lots of non-catholic teen relatives with Christian parents. And when things become less doctrinal, it allows us to connect spiritually Also some of my relatives don’t teach Christianity to their children regularly, and magazines like this help me to share without imposing. Thank You.
I did have one question…it said it wasn’t anti-catholic, but would there be teachings in it that don’t comply with Catholicism (Like contraception use) that would be okay in the minds of some Protestants? I wouldn’t want to share if it goes against my beliefs. It would need to be general Christian teachings that we all have in communion.
Posted by Elizabeth Hausladen on Thursday, Apr 21, 2011 6:51 PM (EDT):
Michelle, we are very careful to stick to the universally accepted Christian Doctrines. When in doubt (even over wording), we edit or just don’t print it. As Shaylynn’s letter stated, over 75% of our staff are hard core Catholics (and I, the editor, have worked among Catholics for many years), so printing something that would be in any way anti-Catholic would never fly. It is very much a group project and we all strongly believe in growing in our faith together and finding common ground.
-Elizabeth Hausladen
Editor
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