Editors Note

Abstract

There are a few articles I want to especially call your attention to in this issue of the journal. First of all we're publishing a meta-level "Conversation on the Scholarship of Teaching," (Pearson, Kwok, and Gallagher 2020) which was recorded (transcribed and edited) during the final session of the Wabash Center's 2017-18 Colloquy on Writing the Scholarship of Teaching (2020b). Over the previous year, each of the Colloquy participants had been developing their own essay on a topic in the scholarship of teaching religion and theology. The Conversation begins with reflections on the scholarly peer review process, but quickly expands out to debates about the contours of the scholarship on teaching, and the value of this literature-to authors and to readers-for cultivating a successful teaching practice. Interested readers might want to also take a look at the "Conversation with Maryellen Weimer" (Weimer 2020) in the January issue, a wide ranging discussion of how the Wabash journal fits within the broad range of genres and journals that constitute the scholarship of teaching. Secondly, I want to call your attention to the Forum on James Cone (1938-2018), the founder of black liberation theology (Editor 2020). Andrea White, a member of the journal's editorial board and associate professor of theology and culture at Union Theological Seminary convened a panel of some of his recent students after his death in 2018. Their essays speak to his power in the classroom and the transformational impact he had on his students. Again, interested readers might want to take a look at the "Forum on the Teaching Legacy of Dr. Katie Geneva Cannon" (Kwok 2020) published by her former students in the January issue of this journal.