The Wayhas never, in its fifty-year history, been simply an academic journal. Neither has it been simply pastoral. It has rather tried to maintain its position on the ground where these two meet. This October issue of The Way is the last of those marking the journal’s golden jubilee. This year has offered a chance to look back over five decades during which the world and the Church have both undergone huge changes. A number of the articles in this issue ask whether and how traditional practices and ways of understanding can still foster faith in such different times. The invitation to follow a Christian call today will not be exactly the same as it was when The Way was first published in the early 1960s. No doubt, if the journal survives the coming decades, the nature of that call will have changed again. Yet is clear that any adequate response will continue to touch both head and heart, intellect and affect, academic reflection and personal experience. As it moves into its second half-century, this journal will continue to aim for the middle ground in which these different aspects of the human journey, and of the Christian vocation, meet and influence each other.
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