There is much to report. We thank those readers who responded to our survey: your observations were both supportive and suggestive. While we remain ready to publish full-length scholarly articles, we also wish to establish a forum for brief discussions and observations and invite your contributions. We are aware that many of the articles published in Pacifica are more Eurocentric than the title of the journal indicates and we hope that more contributions from the Asian-Pacific rim will appear in the future. Some respondents asked for issues of Pacifica to be devoted to a particular theme, and we are exploring the possibility of a future volume being devoted to a re-reading of Patristic theology.
Sponsorship from the Melbourne College of Divinity has ensured the continuing viability of Pacifica. We are delighted to report that the MCD and the University of Melbourne have entered into a formal agreement of affiliation, enhancing the provision of facilities for theological education as well as improving resources for teaching and research.
Other MCD news includes the following appointments: Dr Mark Brett as Professor of Old Testament Studies at Whitley College; Dr Eddie Broadhead as Lecturer in New Testament at Whitley College; Rev Greg Elsdon to take up the position of Principal at the Churches of Christ Theological College in 1994. Dr Dorothy Lee to succeed Prof Nigel Watson as Professor of New Testament at The Uniting Church Theological Hall in 1994; Dr Howard Wallace to succeed Prof Robert Anderson as Professor of Old Testament at The Uniting Church Theological Hall in 1994. The United Faculty of Theology farewells not only Professors Watson and Anderson, but also Professor Harry Wardlaw, who also retires at the end of 1993.
We also sadly farewell Pamela Foulkes, a founding member of the Pacifica Association, who has been involved with the journal since the first exploratory meetings of 1986 and who served as Manager and then Book Review Editor. Pamela has migrated to Sydney to take up work with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. All readers of Pacifica owe her an enormous debt and we shall miss, hopefully only for a short time, her assiduous and passionate contribution to the well-being of the journal.