A Word About Christian Ethics Today
CHRISTIAN ETHICS TODAY is a journal of Christian ethics produced to inform, inspire, and unify a lively company of individuals and organizations interested in working for personal morality and public righteousness. It is intended to meet some needs not otherwise being addressed in such a format as this.
The journal means to offer readers a few cups of cold water in Jesus` name.
A wide variety of subjects related to Christian social concerns is envisioned. Included will be substantive material (such as the piece on public education in this issue), titillating (agreeably exciting) material (such as the interview with Dr. Henlee Barnette in this issue), provocative material (such as the piece on "Who`s Alive in `95?" in this issue), prodding material (such as the piece on the prophethood of all believers in this issue), whimsical material that may evoke a chuckle, elicit a smile, or project a ray of Sonshine (such as the "`95 Theses" tossed out in this issue), and outstanding materials that ought to be permanently preserved in the files of everybody interested in Christian ethics (such as the great piece on "Why I Am a Baptist" by Walter Rauschenbusch in this issue).
The journal will be issued as money and energy permit. Heaven forbid that it should be allowed to get in anybody`s way. Copy is in hand for second and third issues. A few pieces might curl your hair.
A painfully arbitrary mailing list has been compiled; and others who so request will be added. On the other hand, requests for the removal of names will be scrupulously honored as the journal should not cumber your ground if you find it to be a barren fig tree.
CHRISTIAN ETHICS TODAY is a publishing venture of the Center for Christian Ethics which has been granted some support by the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship through its Ethics and Public Policy Ministry Work Group. Some additional funding has been received to make possible the inauguration of this project. Because of the grants in hand the journal is being distributed at this point without charge. It is hoped that additional contributions to the Center will be forthcoming.
The opinions expressed in the articles are those of the authors at the moment of their utterances. They may have changed their minds by now. At any rate, they are not necessarily those of the Trustees of the Center for Christian Ethics. And they are certainly not the opinions of the employees of the Center, for there are none.
If you hate what is in this issue, please do not write as enough griping has already been heard in other contexts for a lifetime. If you like it, enjoy!
