The March magazine is out the door to the printer and the creative staff — that's Senior Art Director Craig Sylva, Art Directors Spray Gleaves and Ed Woolf, Managing Editor Jennifer Casseday-Blair and me — gets a little bit of a break. Not too much of one, however, because there is seldom much downtime with this size of a staff. Photographer Jason Kindig never gets a break.
People ask me if magazine deadlines aren't more pleasant than daily newspaper deadlines. The short answer is ‘No.' In daily journalism — newspapers and television mostly — there comes a time when the deadline passes and there's nothing more that can be done about the story until the next day. At a magazine, the deadline process is from a week to two weeks long and unrelenting.
But it still beats working for a living.
I think you'll like the March magazine. I do, and I especially like a story Gail Bennison wrote about the spread of cowboy churches in Texas. She wrote about the topic in general with a specific emphasis on Triple Cross Cowboy Church in Granbury.
Craig Sylva designed the article and staff photographer Jason Kindig captured the images.
This is much more than an article about a church. It explores why — in a time when many people claim to be spiritual but are not necessarily drawn to a community of faith — this particular genre of church is doing well.
The members may not all be cowboys and cowgirls, but they treasure their Western heritage. Obviously, these churches speak to them when many others have not.
