The End of a Journey: An Important Letter from Our Editors

Dear Friends,

We are writing to let you know that we are ending the publication of The Unmooring in 2025. We know this news may be difficult for some of our most engaged readers and contributors, and we wish to express our profound gratitude to everyone who has submitted, contributed, volunteered and donated towards the Unmooring. As a nonprofit open-access journal on theology and faith, we have had the privilege to read and publish the incredible writing and artwork from women around the world. We have published original work from over 60 contributors over the past five years, and have seen wonderful affirming responses from readers online far and wide. We are so grateful for the support and kind words of our readership.

All of The Unmooring’s masthead has been volunteer from the beginning. We started this journal in a fraught moment at the very early onset of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. Wishing to remain ecumenical and unaffiliated from any specific Christian denomination, and by God’s grace committed many hours to the design and curation of each issue.

At the same time, all of us work full-time and are also moms. With our children growing older, our family commitments this past year have commanded our attention, and we found it increasingly difficult to keep up with the needs of the journey. While we explored a number of options, ultimately we felt that the time was apt to sunset this beautiful project we have helped shepherd into being.

We know that there is a strong and even growing need to see and read work from Christian women of faith in a moment in the United States in particular where we hear increasingly nationalist Christian dialogue that rebukes women’s central role in church leadership and churches and even denominations that look to limit the role and voices of women of faith, relegating us in ways that we know God never has based on the truth of the Gospels and throughout scripture. However, we know that God is faithful and that Christ is with us always, and does not fail us in times of difficulty.

Our website with all of our issues will remain up and functional for the foreseeable future, though we will not be responding to the editors’ email past the month of February 2025 and will close our email newsletter list. We are deeply indebted to all of the volunteers who have accompanied us on our journey, and cannot thank each and every one of you for your incredible commitment to our mission.

If you were an annual subscriber but only received one of your two issues, we’ll be reaching out to you specifically to refund your purchase or offer a past issue in exchange.

In Faith,

Bonnie and Kylie