We’re always looking for solid articles to include in upcoming journal issues. We accept submissions from anyone, provided they conform to our submission guidelines. If you’re interested in contributing articles, you can either do so as a guest contributor, or you can apply to become a contributing author.

Guest contributors

If you just want to contribute articles on an ad hoc basis, whenever works for you, then the guest contributor role is what you’re looking for. It isn’t a real “position” per se; it’s just a description which is attached to your name if we publish an article you write. As a guest contributor, you don’t need to establish any kind of formal association with Thinking Matters, or agree with everything we say. Just send us an article, and if we like it we’ll publish it.

Contributing authors

On the other hand, if you’d like to write for Thinking Matters more regularly, you can apply to become a contributing author. Along with working within our submission guidelines, contributing authors must agree with our statement of faith. This is simply to ensure that we can have confidence that the material we receive from our regular contributors will be consistent with the doctrinal position of Thinking Matters.

Contributing authors have the option of committing to a certain number of articles for each journal volume, or of simply being available to be called upon to write an article when one is required in their area of expertise. Most of our contributors are very busy people, and we do everything we can to accommodate their time constraints and other commitments.

Contributing authors may also receive a blog account on Thinking Matters. This is not an automatic right; it is a privilege we reserve for contributors whose work we particularly like, and whose characters we are satisfied are trustworthy.

Focus

Since Thinking Matters is specifically a New Zealand-targeted ministry, we favor articles which engage with New Zealand issues. That said, many apologetics articles will obviously be culture-neutral, so don’t feel obliged to try to make your article more Kiwi.

Articles need to fit into the theme of the upcoming issue in order to be published. This doesn’t mean that we’ll reject submissions which don’t suit the current theme. Good submissions will be kept on file, so that we can fit them into issues which suit their theme. We’ll let you know whether we plan to publish your submission immediately, or whether we’d like to hold on to it. You are, of course, very welcome to ask us what the theme will be for our upcoming issue, and whether we need any particular topics addressed.

Copyrights

Our copyright policy is simple: freely you have received, so freely give. We make no money from Thinking Matters, and we offer its content without conditions attached. By submitting an article to be published, you agree to waive your copyright and let your work fall into the public domain. Thus, no one owns it. This is a general rule, however, and we recognize that sometimes exceptions are warranted. For more information, see our full copyright policy, or contact us.