Letter from the Editors (Fall 2024)
Contemporary Church History Quarterly
Volume 30, Number 3 (Fall 2024)
Letter from the Editors (Fall 2024)
By Lauren Faulkner Rossi, Simon Fraser University
Dear Friends,
Bells collected from Westphalia in 1943. Image from Stiftung Kloster Dalheim, LWL-Landesmuseum für Klosterkultur, ed., _Und vergib uns unsere Schuld? Kirchen und Klöster im Nationalsozialismus._ See Kevin Spicer’s review of the book in this issue.
As we near the end of September, I am again tardy in posting our latest issue. My apologies for the unforeseen delays, but I hope it’s worth the wait.
First, I am excited to announce once more that we have grown our editorial board! Please join me in welcoming Maria Mitchell, from Franklin & Marshall College; Michael E. O’Sullivan, from Marist College; and Blake McKinney, from Texas Baptist College. I think I speak on behalf of all of our editors when I say how pleased I am that we’ve been able to grow our ranks as we have this year. This trio brings with them significant contributions in research and writing to central European history, the history of gender and sexuality, international Protestantism, and postwar reconciliation.
This issue features a bevy of reviews. For our book reviews we have a double contribution from Martin Menke, writing on Johannes Sachslehner’s biography of controversial Bishop Alois Hudal as well as on Giuliana Chamedes’ study of the Vatican response to communism and fascism. Dirk Schuster offers an examination of Oliver Arnhold’s examination of the Institute for the Study and Elimination of Jewish Influence on German Church Life. Beth Griech-Polelle writes an overview of Klara Kardos’s Auschwitz journal. We have two article notes: Rebecca Carter-Chand relates Bastiaan Bouwman’s recent analysis of the World Council of Churches during the Cold War, and Kyle Jantzen surveys Franz Hildebrandt’s broadcasts into Nazi Germany via the BBC, as reviewed by William Skiles. Finally, Kevin P. Spicer gives us a glimpse into an exhibition on church and monastery life during the Third Reich, currently on display at Dalheim Monastery.
Next month, members of our editorial board will be meeting with editors of Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte (KZG) at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. I am excited at the prospect of seeing familiar faces and meeting new ones, and I look forward to sharing a full report on the meeting in our December issue.
Our December issue promises to be the fullest of 2024. It will include multiple book and article reviews as well as reports from major academic conference, including the GSA and Lessons & Legacies. I invite you, as the reader, to let us know about any major conferences, exhibitions, websites, or films that we should know about to review, by contacting me directly.
On behalf of my associate editors and the editorial board,
Lauren Faulkner Rossi, Simon Fraser University
Kindly note: the editorial board of the CCHQ reserves the right to consider requests for translations of articles by contributors. Please direct your request to Lauren Faulkner Rossi at lnf@sfu.ca.
