Bereavement: A Magazine for Hope and Healing - Helping people through grief. 6 Issues/Year.
Word Length: Welcomes pieces of 2,000 words or less.
Payment: No financial compensation.
Address: Bereavement Inc., 4165 North Carefree Circle, Colorado Springs, CO. 80917-2118.

Bible Advocate - Description: The Bible Advocate is one of the oldest religious magazines in America, founded in 1863.
Needs: The Bible Advocate is geared to help Christians understand and obey God's Word, with articles on Bible doctrine, current social and religious issues, Christian living, Bible topics, textual or biblical book studies, prophecy, and personal experience. We also print fillers (sidebars), opinion pieces, and poetry (traditional, free, and blank verse).
Payment: We pay an honorarium, on publication, of $25 per printed magazine page, up to $55, for print and electronic rights. Online articles run $25-$55, depending on published length. For poetry, we pay $20. However, for opinion pieces, we only pay in copies of the magazine.
Rights: We buy first, electronic, and one-time rights. We also accept reprints and simultaneous submissions.
Address: Editor, Bible Advocate, P.O. Box 33677, Denver, CO 80233, USA.

> Catholic Digest - Description: This is a 60 year old national magazine published by Bayard Publishing. Guidelines: Send in text of e-mail. No attachments. Send CD's in Word, QuarkXpress or Rich Text Format (RTF). Send typed copy with address, phone, e-mail, SASE. Most articles are reprints. Will consider original submissions. Don't query. Include contact info: name, address, number at top of each submission. If submitting an article for reprint consideration, include name, address, editor of original published source, copyright line from original source, page number, date of the original publication.
Submission Needs: Features and advice on health psychology, humor, adventure, family, ethics, spirituality, Catholic heritage, profiles of successful Catholics from saints to modern day heroes. Fillers: 1. Open Door-true stories about people brought into Church or returned to their faith. 2. People Are Like That-true stories that shows goodness of humans. 3. Perfect Assist-good works of volunteers/organizations. Include info to contact the organization. 4. Other fillers-amusing signs, jokes, short anecdotes, quizzes, informational paragraphs. Tip: We favor anecdotes, focused on a topic, illustrated by true-life and interconnected vignettes.
Word Length: Nonfiction Articles-1,000-3,500 words. Fillers-200-500 words.
Payment: Articles-$100/reprints, $200-$400/originals. For re-use in electronic form, we pay half of all revenue. Online only articles-$100, plus half of revenue. One copy of issue is included. Finders' fees are $15/article published. Fillers-$2/published line (full page width) plus one copy of the issue. Finders' fees are $5-$10, depending on length.
Rights: Fillers may be published in any Catholic Digest publication, including Catholic Digest, Catholic Digest Reader Large Print, and HELLO HEAVEN, our Web site.
Address: Editor, Catholic Digest, 185 Willow Street, P.O. Box 6001, Mystic, CT 06355.

Christian Science Monitor - Description: International, general-interest daily newspaper published as a public service of the Christian Science Church. Pulitzer-Prize winning; est. 1908.
Submission Needs: The Home Forum is looking for upbeat, personal essays of from 400 to 1,100 words. We also publish poetry (25 lines is a long poem, for us). Every Tuesday we publish Kidspace, feature stories (main story and at least one sidebar) aimed at children ages 6 to 12.
Payment: Personal essays: $75 to $150, depending on the way it's used, length, and the editor's subjective assessment. Poetry: $20 (haiku) to $40. Kidspace articles: $150 for main story of 750 to 900 words, $50 to $75 per sidebar. We like to have at least one sidebar per Kidspace, ideally two.
Address: One Norway Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

Christianity Today - Description: ChristianityToday.com is the official Web site of Christianity Today International that informs, inspires, connects, and equips Christians through community-building interest areas, news with a Christian slant, Christian doctrine issues, trends, biblical commentary.
Guidelines: For electronic copy: send as a text file or Word file. For hard copy: legible, double-spaced, typed. We prefer original submissions. Advise us if you sent article to another magazine. Put on 8-1/2 X 11 inch sheets. Send query letter before manuscript. Send outline: subject, theme, angle, main points, research, experience, qualifications, bio. SASE.
Submission Needs: New angles on old themes, fresh insights, wisdom, judgment, analysis, interpretation, supporting evidence for thesis, related to real world, addresses Christian problems/needs, interaction with Christian values/principles, a strong case, generous/appropriate use of quotes. No technical jargon, professional academic language, superficial generalities, book reviews.
Word Count: 1,500 to 3,000 words.
Payment: Articles: 25 cents/published word and higher.
Address: Christianity Today, 465 Gundersen Dr., Carol Stream, IL 60188

ChristianWeek - Description: CW is a bi-weekly, national, trans-denominational newspaper, written from an evangelical perspective, covering events and issues of interest and concern to the Canadian church. It is published by Fellowship for Print Witness Inc.
Guidelines: Query first by e-mail. Send articles by e-mail. Cover main points: who, what, when, where, why, near beginning. Photos should be sharp, action shots with articles. Colour prints are best. Send photos by e-mail as high-resolution (200 dpi or greater) JPG or TIF file.
Submission Needs: Articles about people or news in your community or denomination that would interest readers in other denominations in other areas.
Word Count: 300-600 words.
Payment: $30-$100 depending on length and research involved.
Address: 204-424 Logan Avenue, Winnipeg, MB R3A 0R4

Devo'Zine - Description: Devo'Zine is a bimonthly devotional magazine designed just for youth and published by Upper Room Ministries in Nashville, Tennessee. It is written by teenagers and by adults who work with and care about teens.
Guidelines: Meditations: have a purpose, youth language, realistic, relevant to youth, opens youth to life of faith, non-sexist, inclusive. Devotionals: invite people to come closer to God, tell about real experiences, express only one main idea, leaves one memorable image. Typed or handwritten, double-spaced on 8 1/2 X 11" paper, e-mail or online submission. SASE. Include name, age/birth date (if under 25). Check 'Writers' Corner' for list of upcoming themes.
Word Length: Daily meditations:150-250 words. Poetry/prayers: 10-20 lines.
Payment: $25 for weekly meditations ($15 if we use your submission as a reflection for another meditation).
Rights: We reserve the right to edit a meditation for length, clarity, grammatical correctness, and biblical/theological integrity.
Address: 1908 Grand Avenue, P.O. Box 340004 Nashville, TN 37203-0004

Dovetail - Description: Dovetail: A Journal by and for Jewish/Christian Families. We have no denominational affiliation or agenda. Articles may reflect any of a variety of approaches and strategies, but should not have a proselytizing or negative tone.
Payment: We pay $25 plus 2 copies for an 800-1,000 word article; $15 plus 2 copies for a 500-word book review.
Address: 775 Simon Greenwell Lane, Boston, KY 40107.

Envoy - Description: Envoy magazine is the award winning bi-monthly journal of Catholic apologetics and evangelization.
Guidelines: Unsolicited submissions OK, light writing style, no previously published submissions or scheduled to appear elsewhere. Include full name, e-mail, address, phone, cover letter, synopsis of article, SASE. Prefer e-mail submissions. No attachments, "cut & paste" into body of e-mail.
Submission Needs: Personal experience accounts of evangelization. Profiles on religious and historical events or personalities. "How to" articles about evangelization, apologetics, study methods, theology, Church history, moral issues. Trends/theological perspectives with an impact on Catholics/Catholic Church (astrology, new birth technologies, Protestantism, Mormonism).
Word Count: 2,000-4,500 words for features.
Payment: One time fee.
Rights: We accept articles on an "all rights" basis. We reserve the unrestricted right, in perpetuity, to make use of material appearing in Envoy, whether in part or in entirety, in other forms, including but not limited to: posting it on our Internet/World Wide Web sites, reprints, special compilations, promotional materials.
Address: P.O.Box 640, Granville OH 43023.

Faith Today - Description: Canada's main interdenominational, evangelical, general-interest magazine for Christians. Seeking to inform, equip and inspire Christians across Canada.
Word Length: 150-2000 words.
Payment: Pays $0.17 - $0.25 (USD) per word.
Address: Faith Today, MIP Box 3745, Markham, ON L3R 0Y4, Canada, Email: FTeditor@efc-canada.com.

Horizons, The Jewish Family Journal - Description: Four times a year, Horizons gives orthodox Jews 144 pages of inspiration, spirituality, information and insight.
Guidelines: No submissions with political issues or anything scholarly. A light, friendly tone. Send complete manuscript.
Submission Needs: Needs history, humorous, essays, mainstream fiction, poetry, slice-of-life vignettes, memoirs.
Word Count: 350-3000 words.
Payment: $50-$150.
Address: Horizons, The Jewish Family Journal, Targum Press, 22700 W. Eleven Mile Rd., Southfield, MI 48045.

Liguorian - Description: Published ten times a year to inform and inspire today's Catholic.
Guidelines: Typed, double-spaced, word count, fact or fiction, name, address, social security number, SASE with each submission. No simultaneous submissions, articles previously published or accepted to be published.
Submission Needs: No retold Bible stories, fad subjects, negative or put-down stories, anything found in secular publications. Needs religious, senior citizen, retirement fiction.
Word Count: Articles: 2,000 words max. Personal Essays: 1200-1400 words. Fiction: 2,000 words.
Payment: 10-12 cents per word.
Address: Liguorian, One Liguori Drive, Liguori, MO 63057-9999

Living Light News - Description: While our readers include Christians, they are primarily those who have yet to make a commitment to Christ. We print positive and uplifting stories that glorify God and help readers see the fruits of a personal relationship with Christ, as opposed to organized religion.
Word Length: News Stories 250-1,200 words, profiles of prominent Christians 800-1,000 words, exciting stories about ministries 750 words, others.
Payment: Articles and news stories: 10 cents/word for first North American serial rights; 5 cents/word for subsequent rights, payable on publication. Rates for US writers range from 5-8 cents/word.
Address: #200, 5306 - 89 Street Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6E 5P9.

Mature Living - Description: A Southern Baptist monthly leisure magazine for seniors 55 and older from Lifeway Christian Resources.
Guidelines: e-mail editor for guidelines.
Submission Needs: No pornography, profanity, occult, liquor, dancing, gambling. Columns open to freelancers: Cracker Barrel (brief, humorous, original quips/verses). Grandparents Brag Board (humorous/insightful things said or done by grandchild/great-grandchild). Also needs humorous, religious, senior citizen/retirement fiction.
Word Length: 600-1200 words.
Payment: 5.5 cents per word: $75.00 min.
Address: Mature Living, Lifeway Christian Resources, One Lifeway Plaza, Nashville, TN 377234.

Parabola, Myths and Religion - Parabola is a quarterly journal devoted to the exploration of the quest for meaning as it is expressed in the world's myths, symbols, and religious traditions, with particular emphasis on the relationship between this store of wisdom and our modern life.

Spirituality.com - Description: The spirituality.com community is about sharing experiences that show how spiritual insights can lead to practical, positive solutions. Sponsored by the Christian Science Board of Directors.
Guidelines: Write for a wide audience. Include the spiritual idea that helped you or the person you're writing about. Use clear, simple reasoning to explain its divine source. Show how these practices led to a change or spiritual inspiration. Include results from your spiritual practice. Give detail.
Submission Needs: Let your writing touch the hearts of spiritual seekers.

The Christian Century - Description: A biweekly magazine for ecumenical progressive Protestants by The Christian Century Foundation.
Guidelines: Send complete manuscript. Manuscript: typed, double-spaced. No footnotes. Book reviews only solicited by book review editor, send resume. Poetry: typed, double-spaced, name, address, number on first page of each. SASE. Photography: Black/white glossy prints. 8X10 or 5X7 prints. Welcomes unsolicited photography.
Submission Needs: Examinations and developments in the contemporary church such as faith, poverty, human rights, economic justice, international relations, national priorities, pop culture, theology and/or ethos of religious communities. Nothing moralistic or unrealistic.
Poetry: Wants experiences, not statements. Don't talk about the world; show it in images, awareness of different sounds in language, even in free verse. No clichés/formula phrases.
Art: bold, clear, line drawings, etchings/wood-block prints, religious themes, people, political, scenes such as mail boxes or plants.
Photography: social, political, religious issues, leading political figures.
Word Length: Feature articles: 3,000 words max. Editorials, reports, personal reflections: 1,500 words max.
Poetry: One poem per page under 20 lines.
Payment: Articles/Editorials: $125. Photography: $25 for inside, $50 for cover.
Rights: One-time rights.
Address: The Christian Century, Christian Century Foundation, 104 S. Michigan Ave., Suite 700, Chicago, IL 606605-1150.

The Upper Room - Description: The Upper Room is for an international, interdenominational audience to encourage Christians in personal prayer and discipleship. The reader can connect real events with activity of God with direct, honest statements of personal faith and how that faith grows. This magazine will help the Christian to explore, search, consider, ask and examine their faith.
Guidelines: Indicate the version of Bible used. Use clear, simple words, develop one idea. Include name, address, social security number on each page, a guide for pronouncing your name (meditations are recorded for audio), typed, double-spaced, original source for quotes. Not previously published. Submissions won't be returned. If you wish to know that we have received your work, include a SAS postcard. Send submissions by e-mail individually, no attachments.
Submission Needs: Meditations must be true, include a title, a Bible reading, a scripture, a personal witness or reflection on scripture, a prayer, a "thought for the day" (summary statement), a subject for a prayer during the day(tied to content of story).
Topics may include: How to deepen Christian commitment, nurture spiritual growth, retelling of a Bible teaching, summarizing a passage of the Bible. Describe a modern situation that you link to a Bible passage, use a specific incident with details of real-life situation. Tell us how you apply this.
Deadlines: Jan-Feb issue: Aug 1 of 2nd previous year (2005 should reach us by Aug. 1, 2003). Emphases: New Year, Epiphany, Ash Wed.
Mar-Apr issue: Oct 1 of 2nd previous year. Emphases: Lent, Palm Sun., Maundy Thurs., Good Fri., Easter, World Day of Prayer.
May-June issue: Dec 1 of 2nd previous year. Emphases: Mother's Day, Father's Day, Ascension Day, Pentecost, Trinity Sunday.
July-Aug issue: Feb 1 of 2nd previous year. Emphases: Leisure.
Sept-Oct issue: Apr 1 of previous year. Emphases: World Communion Sunday, God/daily work.
Nov-Dec issue: June 1 of previous year. Emphases: Bible Sunday, All Saint's Day, Thanksgiving, Advent, Christmas.
Word Count: 250 words.
Payment: $25 for each meditation.
Rights: We buy right to translate your meditation for one-time use in our editions, including electronic and software-driven formats.
Address: Office of the Managing Editor, The Upper Room Magazine, P.O. Box 340004, Nashville, TN 37203-0004.

Tiferet – Description: A journal of spiritual literature.
Guidelines: Send manuscript as Word or .rtf attachments.
Submission Needs: Fiction, nonfiction, poetry that reveals spirit through words.
Length: Maximum one story, one essay, six poems.
Address: Tiferet, PO Box 659, Peapack, NJ 07977.

Women Of Spirit - Description: A Seventh-day Adventist magazine to inspire and disciple Christian women, to nurture emotional growth, balanced living, and Christian witness.
Guidelines: Include name, address, wd count in upper left corner. Save file in ASCII DOS text or WordPerfect and send us an attachment.
Submission Needs: Share experiences such as a crisis overcome, God's leading, nostalgia, daily miracles, devotional/spiritual topics, how-to articles, personal issues, humor, poetry, how I share my faith at work.
Word Length: Manuscript: 500-1,000 words, Short Humor: 500 words, How I Share My Faith at Work: 150 words, Spirited Life: 500 words.
Payment: You get complimentary copies of magazine in which it is printed.
Address: Women of Spirit, 55 West Oak Ridge Drive, Hagerstown, MD 21740.