Evangelical magazine merges with Liberal newspaper

THIRD WAY, a Christian arts and current-affairs magazine, has joined the Church Times stable.

G. J. Palmer & Sons, the company that publishes the Church Times, announced this week that it had acquired Third Way from the Third Way Trust, which founded the magazine in 1977.

Paul Handley, the Church Times editor, said this week: “I’ve admired Third Way for many years. I like the way it has managed to keep its radical edge, and I think it has the potential to become a much more significant magazine.”

Third Way was launched in January 1977 at a time when Evangelicals were beginning to discover the imperative of social responsibility, which, with some notable exceptions, it had long neglected. Read more