Over the course of the last few months it has become increasingly clear to me that the demands of parish ministry, as well as those associated with diocesan and national responsibilities, have repeatedly conflicted with the obligations I owe to the readers, the editorial team, and the staff and Board of the ATR. I have therefore submitted my resignation as Editor in Chief, effective on the 28th of February 2015.

My involvement with the ATR over the last fifteen years has been life-giving. I treasure this gift, and will do all I can to facilitate the transition to a new Editor in Chief as a continuing and dedicated member of the ATR Board. I am particularly grateful to Kate Sonderegger for her wisdom as Chair of the Editorial Committee and for the ongoing support and encouragement of the Board and its president, Roger Ferlo. Whatever success I have achieved in the last two years is surely due to the dedication of Jackie Winter, Roberto Pamatmat, and Vicki Black to our common work.

Richard Geoffrey Leggett

Editor in Chief

In a career spanning four decades and encompassing nine monographs, Sallie McFague has pursued a consistent set of theological questions and critical social issues, articulating strategies for linking the study of religious language to contemporary political threats ranging from nuclear annihilation (Models of God: Theology for an Ecological, Nuclear Age, 1987) to environmental degradation (A New Climate for Theology: God, the World, and Global Warming, 2008) to economic collapse (Blessed Are the Consumers: Climate Change and the Practice of Restraint, 2013). While other contemporary theologians have responded to these challenges by arguing for environmental ethics, McFague reaches her conclusion (kenotic theology) from a very different intellectual trajectory. . . . 

McFague has devoted her career to asking hard questions about
what early Anglicans called the "godly, righteous, and sober life" and
what modern Americans just call "living well." Throughout her oeuvre
she turns to the parable of the Good Samaritan to meditate on our
relationship to the planet to all of the people and forms of life on
earth. Who, indeed, is my neighbor? . . . Global warming is a theological problem; so are hunger and poverty. To borrow the title of a recent book (2008), she has helped to create a new climate for theology. 

An excerpt from "Theologizing the World: A Reflection 

on the Theology of Sallie McFague" by John T. Harwood

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