Army Magazines Win Church Press Awards

Salvationist and Faith & Friends magazines won a total of eight awards at the Canadian Church Press Convention held in Winnipeg from May 14-16, 2009.

The Canadian Church Press includes representatives from 83 member publications, including mainline, Catholic and evangelical churches. The awards were judged by a panel of accomplished journalists and academics.

The following is a list of the winners.

Salvationist

First place—Department: Talking It Over (Dangerous Games, Speak No Evil? and It's Not Easy Being Green)
Debates between Dr. James Read and Captain Amy Reardon

Second place—Interview: Outside the City Gates
Ricardo and Lisa Walters describe the Army's HIV/AIDS work in Africa

Third place—Theological Reflection: Music to My Ears
Major Ray Harris on the Army's rich musical tradition

Third place—Opinion Piece: We Need Heroes
Rob Perry's call to consider Salvationism

Faith & Friends

Second place—Biographical Profile: Best Laid Plans
Profile of Veggie Tales founder Phil Vischer

Second place—Feature Layout and Design: The Razor's Edge
Article on the growing epidemic of teen cutting

Third place—General Excellence―Magazine: September, October and November 2008

Third place—Media Review: A Lost Year, Lift the Label and Haven't Got a Prayer? Book reviews by Ken Ramstead

Comment

On Monday, May 25, 2009, Kathie Chiu said:

Congratulations to the great team at Editorial! Way to go! You are the best in the industry and we are so blessed to have you working for us! We are also blessed to have such gifted writers who give of their time to make our magazines so worthy of reading. I feel blessed to be a part of that group.

Kathie