Alex Mitchell, who edited the Christian monthly magazine Third Way for five of its first six years, died on November 26 2010, aged 63.
She made an important contribution, not least as the only woman and non-ordained member, to the words group that produced Hymns for Today’s Church.
Third Way was launched at the beginning of 1977 as a fortnightly magazine. After working at Crusade for four years, Alex Beale, as she then was, joined its sister publication Third Way at its launch, where she worked as Assistant Editor. The next year she became Editor and took the magazine to its current monthly format. During her editorship, she attracted notable political figures, such as former Prime Minister Edward Heath, to its pages.
She left Third Way at the end of 1982 on the birth of her first son, but continued her involvement with societal issues at national level through her active Board membership of the Shaftesbury project and the London Institute of Contemporary Christianity.
She is survived by her husband John, sons Peter and Andrew and daughter-in-law Emily.
