Elm House (1985–87) Third Way Trust (1987–2007) Third Way was a British magazine which invited Christian thinkers and writers to analyse or comment on the political, social and cultural issues of the day.
[1] The debate inspired the editor of Crusade, John Capon, to launch Third Way as a fortnightly magazine in January 1977, offering a Christian perspective on current affairs and the arts.
[1] Its title referred to an observation by the theologian Os Guinness in his 1973 book The Dust of Death: 'How often in the contemporary discussion a sensitive modern man [sic] knows that he cannot accept either of the polarised alternatives offered to him.
[3] A major innovation in May 1993 was the feature High Profile, a regular series of in-depth interviews of influential public figures, presented as question and answer without editorial comment.
A number of scoops followed over the next 23 years: one of the first interviews of Gerry Adams published in Britain after the ban on talking to members of Sinn Féin was lifted in 1996, followed immediately by one of Ian Paisley; Noam Chomsky; Mary McAleese, then President of the Republic of Ireland; Maya Angelou; Thom Yorke (which the Observer described as 'an incredible scoop');[4] Tracey Emin; Daniel Libeskind; Julie Burchill; Khalid Mish'al, then the political head of Hamas; Camille Paglia; Amartya Sen; Paulo Coelho; Margaret Atwood; Annie Lennox; Werner Herzog; Patti Smith; Richard Branson; Marina Abramović; Jeremy Paxman; Slavoj Žižek; and Gloria Steinem, among more than 200 others.