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     The Chronicle consists of of eight pages, including covers, and cost $2.00 per issue plus shipping and handling. The Villager will have twelve pages @ $2.95 per issue. You are NOT required to sign up as a member of MAGCloud to order magazines from the printer. MAGcloud provides a notice confirming that you can order without becoming a member.
     You will receive a quality print copy of the magazine in the mail.

Subscription

     There are two methods for receiving issues on a regular basis. The first method is to sign up with MAGcloud.com and subscribe to receive a notice each time I upload a new magazine. Although there is no requirement to sign up for MAGcloud to make a purchase, doing so will ensure you are notified each time a magazine of your choice is published and uploaded. It is then your choice to purchase that particular issue now, later, and if ever.
     You will be dealing direct with MAGcloud on their secured payment site.
     Second method: Keep checking my home page, at least once a month to see if a new issue has been uploaded.

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About the Birch Clump Villager

    The "Villager" is a literary and Art magazine for the pure enjoyment of reading stories, mostly fiction, and from time to time some poetry offerings. The initial issue features art by illustrator artist, Kathy Johnson for my novels and a couple or so drawings from me, Joshua Seidl. Other authors can inquire about submission requirements for their works. This magazine is an excellent venue for new authors to have their works featured in a professionaly produced magazine. We have only twelve pages available per issue so will be limited to only one or two guest authors in each issue. Please read my submission policy first as I am not in a possition to accept or read volumns of unsolicited work.

Creative writing students    . . .    anyone with reasonably good writing skills    . . .    got a short story to tell . . .    keep it clean, this is a family magazine    . . .    . . .    itchin' to see your work professionaly printed . . . Country tales and small town, ... camping, ... Great Lakes and small ponds, ... forest and glen . . . this may well be the magazine suited for you      . . .    Artists & photograpers . . . you're welcome also.

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About the Birch Clump Chronicles

We launched Vol. 1 on August 6, 2009. The upper left picture is the cover of the magazine.
     This is a magazine aimed at those in a wide range of ministry, teaching, social work and situations concerning the relationship of Indigenous People and cultures with the institutionalized religions and churches that came to these lands from Europe, the Mid East, Asia and Africa. The focus is for the advancement of inculturation and for the promotion of indigenous cultures within the churches, temples, mosques and synagogues as applicable. It is intended to be an inter-religious forum that can include input from Traditional Indigenous religious heritage, Jewish, Christian, Islamic and Buddhist religious sectors, all of which interact with each other in the general society, and all of which has some degree of direct ministry involvement with the First Nations of the lands now called the Americas.
     The Birch Clump Chronicle acknowledges that the religious organizations that came to the Americas have not always had the best of relationships with Native Americans (Aboriginals) historically and currently. Likewise, the magazine acknowledges those areas where those organizations have established good relationships within Native circles or are succeeding in developing conciliation. The magazine staff and major consultants endeavor to concentrate our efforts towards the positive and productive.
     A word of welcome to non-Indigenous religious workers new to the concept of inculturation: None of the Churches, Temples, Synagogues, Mosques and other forms of religious buildings and edifices would have existed in the Americas had not the First People given the land and often their blood in the establishment of your organizations on this soil. A significant number of your congregations and agencies include Native American membership.
     Each issue will include informative articles, short stories of fiction or non-fiction and on occasion some short poetry. There will be at least one article and one story in each issue. Stories have a direct or an indirect focus on inculturation. The unusual mix of articles and stories is a unique approach that the staff feels can deliver a good message and encourage practical application of inculturation in ministry.
     By ministry, we include a very broad based definition that is not exclusively a religious term. This magazine is intended to appeal to teachers, students, ordained clergy (or its equivalent in accord with the terminology used in various religious circles), social workers, medical professionals, public transportation directors, retailers and whole sellers, publishers, seminarians, directors of seminaries and other houses or institutes of formal religious ministry formation, and just about anyone dealing with or holding interest in cultural diversity concerns.

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Authors welcome
For both magazines

    Please inquire about manuscript submission policy before sending in a manuscript. You can click here to read the current manuscript submission guidelines, or click the Contact Us link from the menu on any page of this website. Unsolicited manuscripts will most likely be ignored and discarded. This is because a flood of manuscripts can be overwhelming and impossible for one person to examine.
     I want to make these magazines as freindly as possible for authors, artists and readship. Conditions spelled out in the manuscript submission guide will probably be adjusted as I receive constructive feed back from authors and readers regarding these policies or magazine content. I know what it is like trying to get published for the first time. I'd like to make your journey to becoming published a pleasant experience.
     Inter-religious input does not mean the stories and articles should reflect a generic religious terminology. Authors are encouraged to include their particular religious expression and terminology within their articles or stories; but keeping in mind the respect of other religious persuasions; or that some terminology will not be as clear to those outside of a particular religious circle. We are all related, but we are not all the same. The diversity of manuscripts, provided they are respecting of other faith walks, are welcomed.

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Bro. Joshua Seidl, SSP
Society of St. Paul
2187 Victory Blvd.
Staten Island, NY 10314

Email: yoshua @ hawkdancer.com
(No spaces are in the email address. It's special coded here to protect me from spam)

Phone: Email is the better way to contact me. However my internet connected phone: 1-718-865-8781 can be used, but I’m not always at my computer. Feel free to leave a message, your name and your phone number. If you don't hear from me in a day or two, you can try again. Still no responce? I might away; try in a week or two. (Be sure to leave a message why you are calling). Skype users: joshua.seidl

Special Update: The BC Villager has recently been reduced from a quarterly to a once or twice a year publication. The BC Chronicle will continue as a bi-monthly until February 2011. After that it will become a quarterly.