Editorial Report

Very seldom are the readers of Christian Ethics Today accosted with statistics, reports, policies, or sundry housekeeping details. This third anniversary issue, however, may be a not inappropriate time to mention a few things.

Subscription policy. The journal is sent without charge to those who request it.

Journal of opinion. Articles printed represent the views of the authors and are not necessarily those of the editor or the Center's Trustees or the Regents or Administration of Baylor University.

Finances. Financial support for the Center for Christian Ethics comes from interested individuals, from foundations, from churches, and through the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship.

Auditor's report. In 1997, the Center for Christian Ethics took in $54,036 and spent $50,484. Using a cost accounting method of reckoning, each issue of the journal costs about $10,000 to $12,000.

Consultants. The journal's contents are assembled, edited, and proofed by the editor and his incredibly wonderful wife, Mary Louise. (Oversights and mistakes are hers, not mine. NOT.) Handwritten or typed materials are processed into a floppy disk by computer whiz Marilyn Davis. Layout is masterfully done by Randy Shebek. Printing is by the Etheridge Printing Company who, after providing blue lines for final proofing, delivers the printed copies to the professional mailers who then abandon the finished product to the U.S. Post Office for indeterminate treatment. 

Submission of materials. Content material for possible publication is solicited. As long as the material is related to Christian social ethics, its submission for consideration is welcome. The Center's policy is to pay $100 for articles and $50 for shorter prices, paid at the time of publication.

Advertising. The journal at this time does not have the staff in place to implement a policy of carrying advertisements in the journal. Paid subscriptions. Ditto. Maybe some day.

Staff. The Center currently has no full time paid staff but is vigorously, (earnestly,/read), frantically seeking qualified persons to direct and implement the Center's work out of offices at Baylor University.

Center-Baylor relationship. In 1997, the Center for Christian Ethics and Baylor University, entered into a mutually beneficial relationship with Baylor's Regents electing the Center's Trustees and providing the Center with offices at the Baylor Administration Building at 416 Pat Neff Hall in Waco, Texas and with the Center's Trustees, through the Center's staff, having "primary responsibility for the financial support, supervision, program activities, and ongoing work of the Center in support of Christian ethics." Being the Center for Christian Ethics at Baylor provides Baylor as an institution with important distance and provides the Center as a Christian ethics entity with important relationships.

Updated Thursday, December 28, 2000