Editorial

Long-term readers of the 'Melanesian Journal of Theology' will notice some changes in this latest issue. Apart from formatting changes, most of the articles (see the final paragraph below on so-called "summary articles") in both numbers of the journal published in 2016 will have gone through a process of anonymous peer review. The reasons for moving to a peer-review process are two-fold: to improve the academic quality of articles published in the journal; and to familiarise faculty members of theological schools in Melanesia (and the wider Pacific) with the usual process of scholarly publication. As theological faculty become research active, the hope is that this will contribute in turn to improvements in theological education and its end product, ministers of the gospel. This goal should not, however, be interpreted in an exclusive sense. The journal welcomes article submissions from any person/s with an interest in Melanesia, its churches, and people.