This year, Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal will publish volume 100. It is a momentous occasion for the journal and the academy. Few academic publications can claim such a continuous history of publication, let alone match the high quality of work published in Soundings and its previous incarnations.
Soundings started in 1917, but with a very different name, mission, and audience.1 At that time it was called The American College Bulletin, and it was published under that name until 1919, when it became Christian Education. In 1953, another name change gave us The Christian Scholar. Eventually, the Society for Values in Higher Education took over operations of the journal and in 1968 gave the journal the name Soundings. With that final change, the journal went from a publication focused exclusively on Christian education and theology to one that is now interdisciplinary and concerned broadly with deep...
