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64 J. Church & St. 1 (2022)

handle is hein.journals/jchs64 and id is 1 raw text is: Note from the Editor As those who read mastheads may have noticed, I became editor of Journal of Church and State in August 2020, succeeding Jerold Waltman who retired. I want to take this opportunity to thank Pro- fessor Waltman for his years of superb service to the journal. Although new to the position of editor, I am not new to JCS. I served as an associate editor for twenty-five years, and my associa- tion with the journal goes back further in time, all the way to 1981 when I entered Baylor's M.A. program in Church-State Studies and studied for two years under JCS founder James E. Wood, Jr. After a Ph.D. at Kansas State University and six years on faculty at Louisi- ana College, I returned to Baylor in 1996 as Associate Director of the J. M. Dawson Institute of Church-State Studies, where Professor Wood was a senior colleague and Derek Davis was Director of the Institute and editor of the journal. Becoming an associate editor of JCS was part of my position as Associate Director of the Dawson In- stitute and Assistant Professor of History. I subsequently moved full time into the Department of History, serving first as Graduate Program Director, then Chair of the Department while continuing as associate editor. It is with a great sense of gratitude and humility that I currently serve as editor of JCS. In addition to the editorial change, I want to take this opportunity to announce that with this issue JCS is joining an increasing num- ber of scholarly journals that are published exclusively online. The decision to move in this direction was one our subscribers have been making for us, as more and more individuals and almost all institutions have already moved to the electronic format only. Still, there is inevitably going to be some disappointment among those who have until this time subscribed to the print edition, and I must say, as one who can remember what the world of scholarship was like before the advent of the internet, I share a certain sense of loss. That said, I am also of the age when the prospect of retiring from Journal of Church and State vol. 64 no. 1, pages 1-2; doi: 10.1093/jcs/csab092 C The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the J. M. Dawson Institute of Church-State Studies. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com 1