Volume 46  2026

NEXT ISSUE’S THEME

 VOLUME 46, 2026

With the dramatic changes in our faith communities, we are experimenting with new places of gathering. Communities of faith might understand the primary place of gathering as a neighborhood, a city, a community garden, an ecosystem. Some hospitals and health care systems have reimagined the place of health care as a whole community ecosystem rather than simply a clinical setting in a downtown building.

Jennifer Ayres’s helpful definition of place captures the essence of these discussions: “A location becomes a place when it is imbued with meaning, with histories, and contestations. Indeed, a shorthand for what is meant by ‘place’ is ‘space plus character,’ attending to the relationship between geographical location and the human soul.” Moreover, as in any category of human meaning, place is shot through with the dynamics of power. Thus, theorist Tim Creswell defines place as “space invested with meaning in the context of power.”  

Places are not found; they are made. Places are not given; they are constructed. Indeed, theorists have long theorized place as a product of human meaning-making rather than simply a stable, objective spatial or geographical reality. 

Places—regions, nations, cities, neighborhoods, ecosystems—are constructed realities. The geographical boundaries that give shape to particular places; the histories of human settlement, cultural production, demographic change, etc., which give places their distinctive character; and the structural realities (economic, political, cultural, etc.) that determine how human communities experience place—and much more—are all complex products of human agency.

For volume 46, we invite authors to consider the relationship between place, formation for religious leadership, and reflective practice. How does place condition reflective practice and formation? How might emerging and critical understandings of place shape approaches to reflective practice and formation? How has it shaped your approach.

We invite authors to submit articles to Reflective Practice by November 1, 2025. Submissions to the journal should not exceed 5,000 words. Authors can find the author guidelines at the link here.  

For more information, or to express interest in contributing to volume 46,

 please contact co-editors 

John Senior - Co-Editor 

Michael Washington - Co Editor

 The deadline for submissions is December 1, 2025.

and John Senior - Co-Editors

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Formation and Supervision in Ministry

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•Because this Journal is now available electronically across the globe, we hope that people will write about formation and supervision from their context in order that we may all be enriched by a diversity of perspectives. Proposals are welcome any time. 

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                                John Senior - Co-Editor 

                                                   or  

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          by November 1, 2025 for inclusion in Volume 46.