It was one year ago today (January 10th) that the first ever issue of Virtue Magazine was launched. We decided not to do anything marking this occasion in the current issue of the magazine, but—at the risk of making it sound like we’re tooting our own horns—I thought it was worth a mention on the blog.

For anyone interested, you can check out our very first issue and other issues in our archives section.

The idea of doing a magazine began in an informal chat session for students taking an online Constitutional Law class last year. While the idea was batted around for a while, I don’t know if many people really thought the project would ever truly get off the ground. But thanks to the hard work and efforts of a number of people—including Alessandra Kroger, the person we selected as our editor—the project did get off the ground, and is still chugging along today.

The past year has certainly gone by quickly, and it’s amazing to think that we’ve done 25 issues already. A lot has changed since then—we originally didn’t have a blog, the site design was quite a bit different then what it is today, and the Virtue staff has changed considerably: of all the participants who have come and gone through the past year, only about half a dozen or so who are still with us today have been involved in the Virtue project since the beginning.

We would like to thank everyone for all the work they’ve done to help us, and thank our readers for actually reading us! We hope that we continue to improve our writing and content over the next year, and we hope that, in some small way, we will be able to help make a difference in the world today.