IACE's new online journal is live with first edition

FORT WORTH - May 26 - Integration: The Journal of Faith and Learning is now live on the IACE website with its inaugural edition for Summer 2023.

The journal is intended as an online resource for Christian educators, and will seek to express what it means to live and serve faithfully in the academy.

It was unveiled during the Third Annual Faculty Development Conference in Fort Worth May 24-26.

“The editors and contributors to this journal want to model what it means to think Christianly, to prioritize the pattern of Christian truth, to help shape their world and life view through the lens of the Christian faith, to affirm the truthfulness and full authority of Christian Scripture, to value, appreciate, and pass on the Christian intellectual tradition,” IACE president and journal publisher David S. Dockery wrote in his introduction to the journal.

Editors include Hunter Baker, dean of the school of arts and sciences at Union University, Melinda Stephens, provost, Geneva College, and Nathan Finn, provost and dean of the faculty at North Greenville University. Mike Garrett, director and librarian at the R.C. Ryan Center for Biblical Studies at Union, will serve as managing editor and coordinate book reviews.

“Moving forward, we anticipate publishing a combination of commissioned and submitted articles,” Finn said in his introductory notes. “To that end, we welcome submissions for consideration. Articles should address the integration of faith and learning or closely related themes. We are especially interested in articles that engage with academic disciplines.”

Editors are still making plans for the future online publication schedule, but anticipate at least two editions each calendar year.

“Let us pray that the Lord will use this publication and the work of the IACE to develop a new generation of thoughtful, committed, convictional, and courageous Christian educators ,” Dockery wrote, “who will go forth in wisdom, humility, confidence, and courage to serve the academy and the church, to engage the culture, and to disciple the nations for the sake of the gospel and the glory of the Triune God.”