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Featured Story: A note from the editor…

December 1, 2015 by Richard Cimino

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With this issue, Religion Watch marks its 30th year of publication. This issue also reports some important changes for the newsletter. We are now an open source publication; in other words, RW is free. Newsletters, more than any other type of publication, have moved gradually from a subscription-based model to an open-access one, mainly because an online presence and the elimination of print and paper was far easier to undertake compared to magazines and journals. We have held on to the older model longer than most newsletters (maybe because of the editor’s background in printing), but RW is now completely online. The newsletter is also moving from its base at the Center for the Study on Religion and the Professions at the University of Missouri to a new publisher in the next month or two (more on that soon). We are grateful to publisher Debra Mason and her talented staff for taking on RW in 2013 in a very challenging publishing climate, and introducing new web technology and design into RW’s format. No doubt, it is now quite a different RW than the one that came off the kitchen table of a recently graduated college student (with proofreading, collating, and stamping assistance from parents!) back in 1985. But we remain committed to bringing the reader the most wide-ranging and in-depth coverage of trends and changes in contemporary religion. We thank readers for their support and hope they will stay with us for the exciting years ahead.

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