Editorial

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For over fifty-five years, we at CrossCurrents have moved beyond the sometimes narrow agendas of academic guilds to explore the most interesting intersections of religion and intellectual life. We have discovered when we trespass the established borders and boundaries of academic and faith communities we can enter the liminal spaces where some of the most engaging ecumenical and interfaith conversations begin.

Those of us who studied with the late John Howard Yoder remember how he taught us to transgress the status quo, or in his words, "Constantinian assumptions of contemporary theology and culture," with alternative, prophetic possibilities for re-imagining the relationships …