EDITORIAL

In the spring of 2016, Dr. Steven R. Harmon, Visiting Associate Professor of Historical Theology, Gardner-Webb University School of Divinity, released the latest installment in his ecumenical pilgrimage, Baptist Identity and the Ecumenical Future: Story, Tradition, and the Recovery of Community (Baylor University Press). Author of numerous scholarly articles and books such as Ecumenism Means You, Too (2010) and Towards Baptist Catholicity: Essays on Tradition and the Baptist Vision (2006), Professor Harmon has invested a substantial portion of his career and life's energy on the ecumenical question and the relationship of Baptists to the broader Christian tradition. I have known Steve personally for many years now, and one thing I have come to respect and admire about him is his careful, conscientious, even meticulous attention to detail—and this book is no exception. It is a true labour of love