Annual Editor's Choice Articles

At the publication of the first issue of the calendar year, the editor will review the previous year's issues and select two peer-reviewed papers for the Annual Editor's Choice Articles. These articles reflect not merely the standards of an academic, peer-reviewed article, such as offering a novel contribution to a field or discipline, demonstrating rigorous scholarship, and offering a cogent, coherent, and accessible argument. They also address pressing or emerging topics in a discipline or field and/or resonate with current academic and social concerns. Furthermore, the articles have the potential to inspire future research, provoke meaningful dialogue, and contribute to the evolving discourse in interreligious/interfaith studies, comparative theology, or other adjacent and overlapping disciplines and fields.

2025 Editor's Choice Articles

"The (Im)Possibility of Measuring Interfaith Learning Outcomes" (Issue 46) co-authored by Hannah Julia Visser, Gerdien D. Bertram-Troost, Marianne Moyaert, and Anke Liefbroer, offers a practical reflection and constructive proposal regarding the limits of evaluating interfaith/interreligious learning outcomes. It is not only well researched, but it also provides practical steps that are certainly useful to many of our readers.

"Practices, Beliefs, and Identities: Muslim Immigrants’ Acculturation in the Southeastern United States" (Issue 44), by Kylee Smith and David J. Marshall, explores how interreligious and intercultural encounters in the politically secular yet culturally Christian southeastern United States shape Muslim immigrants’ religious practices, beliefs, and identities. It remains a timely article with important and instructive conclusions. Not only is the article beneficial to other researchers, but it also serves as excellent teaching material in the undergraduate and graduate classroom.

2024 Editor's Choice Articles

Cait Duggan's "Theology of Prayer after Auschwitz: Elie Wiesel and Johann Baptist Metz in Conversation" (Issue 42) is a timely and relevant article given the ongoing destruction and suffering around the world--conflicts and violent acts too many to list, producing mass casualties and longterm devastation. Duggan provides a comparative and interreligious reflection on two figures who raised serious questions around "doing theology after the Shoah."

Joanna Homrighausen's "Liturgical Letters: Jewish and Christian Calligraphic Art and Comparative Theology" (Issue 41, A Festschrfit in Honor of Lucinda Mosher) extends the ongoing attention to art and theological aesthetics in the disciplines of interreligious/interfaith studies and comparative theology. Homrighausen explores works by contemporary calligraphers Izzy Pludwinski and Ewan Clayton to create a Jewish-Christian conversation around sacred text in its visual, aesthetic, and artifactual dimensions.

I encourage everyone to read these articles for their insights and contributions.