Writers/Artists

The Writers

THE EDITOR:

Ted Byfield has been a journalist for sixty-three years and was a western Canadian news magazine publisher for more than twenty-five. In 1973, he founded Alberta Report news magazine and in 1988 British Columbia Report. A columnist for many years with Canada’s Sun newspapers and sometime contributor to the National Post and Globe and Mail, he was a winner of the National Newspaper Award for spot news reporting while serving as a reporter for the Winnipeg Free Press in the 1950s. He was also one of the founders of the St. John’s Anglican schools for boys, where he developed a new method of teaching history. In the 1990s, he became editor and publisher of Alberta in the Twentieth Century, a twelve-volume history of his province of Alberta. He was the visionary behind the Christian History Project and served as general editor of the first six volumes. When the Project became insolvent in 2005, he formed SEARCH–the Society to Explore and Record Christian History—which has undertaken to publish Volumes 7 through 12. Byfield is president of SEARCH and continues as general editor of the series.

Charlotte Allan, journalist and author, contributor to the Atlantic Monthly, Washington Post, and New Republic, Washington, D.C.

Ross Amy, graduate of the Master’s program in Old Testament Theology, Briarcrest College and Seminary, Biblical translator (Cree), Beauvallon, AB.

Paul Bunner, former executive editor, Report newsmagazines, former director of communications, Prime Minister’s office, Ottawa, ON.

Link Byfield, journalist, publisher and editor, Alberta Report and Western Report, policy analyst, Citizens Centre for Freedom and Democracy, Edmonton, AB

Mike Byfield, former editor, Report newsmagazines and former financial editor, Calgary Sun.

Virginia Byfield, copy editor, writer and wife of general editor Ted Byfield, was a daily newspaper reporter in Ottawa and in Northern Ontario, prior to working as an interviewer and photographer for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Winnipeg, and as a newsmagazine reporter and editor for more than twenty years in Alberta.

Vincent Carroll, columnist, Denver Post, former editorial page editor, Rocky Mountain News, Denver, CO.

Calvin Demmon, former columnist and editor, Monterey, CA.

Ric Dolphin, former columnist, Maclean’s magazine, the Globe and Mail, the Edmonton Journal, the Calgary Herald, the Western Standard magazine, and former contributor to Alberta Report magazine and the Alberta in the Twentieth Century series.

Francis Fast, classics graduate, Thomas Aquinas College, CA.

Mark Galli, managing editor, Christianity Today magazine, author of numerous books, Wheaton, IL.

Steve Hopkins, former executive editor, Alberta Report newsmagazine, and former director of publications at Clarkson University in Potsdam, NY.

Ian Hunter, emeritus professor of law, University of Western Ontario and columnist for the Globe and Mail and the National Post Toronto, ON.

D’Arcy Jenish, award-winning journalist and author of seven books, Toronto, ON.

Lianne Laurence, former reporter for the Western Catholic Reporter, former managing editor of Catholic Insight magazine, and author of Borowski: A Canadian Paradox.

Frederica Mathewes-Green, author and contributing writer, Christianity Today and Touchstone magazine, Baltimore, MD.

Tom McFeely, former news editor, National Catholic Register (U.S.); former managing editor, B.C. Report newsmagazine; former Calgary managing editor, Alberta Report newsmagazine.

John Muggeridge, retired college professor of English and history, Toronto, ON.

John David Powell, a former print and broadcast journalist and former Public Radio Network commentator, Houston, TX.

David Shiflett, has written for Wall Street Journal, Reader’s Digest, Los Angeles Times, Manchester Guardian and other publications; the author of The America We Deserve (with Donald Trump) and co-author of Christianity on Trial (with Vincent Carroll), Midlothian, VA.

Gary Thomas, contributing writer, Christianity Today, and author of three books, Bellingham, WA.

Jared Tkachuk, history graduate, University of Alberta.

Steve Weatherbe, former teacher, a former staffer for the Report newsmagazine, former columnist of Sterling newspapers, Victoria, B.C.

Joe Woodard, former religion editor, Calgary Herald, Calgary, AB.

The Artists

Of Wood Ronsaville Harlin Inc. Annapolis, Maryland: Matthew Frey, Greg Harlin , Rob Wood are contributors to National Geographic, Reader's Digest, the Smithsonian Magazine and many other publications.

Randy Gallegos has illustrated hundreds of images for a variety of purposes. Largely published in the fantasy and science-fiction gaming industry, his work has also included his primary loves--that of story illustration. Historical subjects carry a strong interest for him, since there is a common thread of research involved in much of his work. Add to this his love of classical painting with his own work being done in oils, and following the great tradition of narrative realism flows naturally. He lives in Manhattan with his wife, and maintains his website at gallegosart.com.

John Collier of Plano, Texas, does work for the New York Times Magazine, Viking Penguin, the A & E television network, Atlantic Monthly, Avon Books, and Warner Brothers.

Richard Connor of Edmonton, Alberta, is a graduate of the Alberta College of Art and Design and has worked as an illustrator and designer in England and Canada and currently illustrates on contract for architectural companies in western Canada.

Carlo Cosentino from Montreal, Quebec, produces artwork for clients including IBM, Seagram's, Pepsi-Cola, Toshiba, Canon, and Toyota. His poster art has been used for jazz festivals across Canada.

Bob Crofut of Richfield, Connecticut, has a client roster that includes Doubleday, Prentice-Hall, NBC, MGM, Ford, Reader's Digest and IBM.

Michael Dudash of Moretown, Vermont, also draws for Reader's Digest Books, 20th Century Fox, Universal Studios, Simon and Schuster, Random House and McGraw-Hill.

Glenn Harrington of Pipersville, Pennsylvania, has illustrated for Macmillan Books, Bantam-Doubleday-Dell and Paramount Studios.

Jamie Holloway, of Edmonton, Alberta, whose work is familiar to Alberta advertising and government agencies.

John Mantha of Toronto, Ontario, has designed for the Royal Canadian Mint and illustrated seven books. His clients include Ford, Fox Television, Penguin Books, and Better Homes and Gardens.

Tom McNeeley from Toronto, Ontario, has won awards from the Society of Illustrators and Communication Arts Magazine. His clients include publishers and theater and opera companies.

John Smith of Edmonton, Alberta, is senior illustrator, designer, and art director of his firm Artsmith Communications with major government, institutional, and commercial clients. He also teaches design at Grant MacEwan Community College, Edmonton.

Richard Sparks of Norwalk, Connecticut, also illustrates for Exxon, Sports Illustrated, Time, Doubleday and Simon and Schuster.

Dale Shuttleworth, who lives outside Edmonton in the resort area of Pigeon Lake, took his first watercolor class at age nine and later taught watercolor himself. He has been self-employed as a commercial artist for forty years, with most of his work in architectural illustration and rendering.

Jim Nunn, born in Fort Macleod, Alberta, was a longtime Edmonton resident who had worked as a commercial artist and architectural illustrator throughout his thirty-five-year career. He was an accomplished landscape artist, working in acrylics, and has done a number of portraits in pastels.

Alexis Reiter from Edmonton, Alberta, is an artist and calligrapher who has taught both subjects and heads his own firm, Alexis Design.