About the Journal
Welcomed: Building Communities of Faith at Stanford is a student-run, peer-reviewed, google-scholar and Library of Congress indexed annual interdisciplinary journal exploring how faith and scholarship shape identity, ethics, and belonging in university life. Rooted in the belief that intellectual rigor and spiritual reflection enrich one another, welcomed invites undergraduates from all traditions to contribute original research, critical essays, textual hermeneutics, individual reflections, and policy analyses. Traditions are listed alphabetically when named.
Current Issue
Vol. 1 No. 1 (2026): Welcomed, Volume I: Faith, Belonging, and the Life of the University
Welcomed, Volume I gathers essays, interviews, and hermenetics that explore faith, doubt, belonging, and moral life at Stanford. This inaugural issue asks how religious and ethical inheritance shape students, scholars, and communities within a modern university. Contributors reflect on prayer, grief, ritual, intellectual formation, public responsibility, and the search for meaning in academic life. The volume includes personal narratives, conversations, and essays that treat religious life as a source of inquiry, community, and struggle. These pieces open a space for serious reflection on what it means to live, learn, and belong.
Published:
2026-04-10
