TH6.1: Editors' Note

With Volume 6 of The Turning House, the editorial team has undertaken a significant experiment. We want The Turning House to provide even more of a platform for the student body to examine, evaluate, and challenge ideas and practices of this religious community and all religious communities of which we are part. To this end, we welcome shorter pieces reporting on upcoming events or reflecting on past ones – both at and beyond Union (such as the upcoming colloquium with Michael Hardt). Yet we will continue to publish thoughtful commentary, in various forms, to kindle fresh-yet-nuanced conversation within the Seminary community (see, for example, the pieces by Angela Escueta and Rebekah Walter).

The Seminary has sufficiently passed through wrenching turmoil in the past few years that the veil (or gag) of bare survival must now be lifted. It is time for us to ask difficult, fundamental questions with enough boldness to gain clarity and enough focus on practices, not preconceptions, to preserve our community.

In letters to the editors, comments on the Turning House blog, and submissions to future issues, we hope you will create with us the kind of discourse can redefine whether and how we can possibly be “A New Union in a World City.”

-The Editors