No snogging, no celebrity gossip: church launches magazine for teenage girls
By Jonathan Owen and Sadie Gray
Published: 01 July 2007
At first glance it looks like any other teen magazine, in a glossy colour cover and in a handbag size - aimed at "girls with spirit". But don't expect to find any tips on snogging techniques. Grace, to be launched next month, is anattempt by the church to appeal to a fresh audience as attendance figures fall.
It will have its work cut out. Its launch coincides with the demise of the teen magazine CosmoGirl! and a teen spin-off fromElle.
Grace is the brainchild of Paul Handley, the editor of the Church Times, who said: "It is for girls who have got a spirit as well as a body and who think there is more to life than shopping."
One big difference, he says, is that the magazine will not contain articles about sex. "It's for 11- to 16-year-old girls, so the assumption is that they are not having sex. We say that the best place for sex is in a marriage, not in a magazine... The message of the magazine is that life at that age is about other things."
Grace is funded by a grant from the Archbishop of Canterbury and various church trusts, and 50,000 copies of the launch issue, which has a cover price of £2.50, are to be distributed free via youth groups nationally. The quarterly magazine is a mix of real-life stories, problem pages, campaigns, eco and ethical lifestyle tips, music, film and book reviews - with references to Christianity scattered throughout.
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