I would prefer to write about rivers than roads. Their motion is more relaxing. They inspire me to stillness whereas roads, when they inspire me at all, breathe only the restless longing for elsewhere. But I have had to put personal preferences aside in conceiving this collection because I could not honestly write about a confluence of Christianity and critical theory. Although they have come together many times in history and come together with encouraging frequency in contemporary writing, Christianity and critical theory remain theoretically separable because of their unequal claims to our allegiance and their different trajectories (Milbank, 2006, p. 429; Jacobs, 2001, p. 144). Like divergent roads, they begin and end in different places. As Graham Ward succinctly puts it: "The presupposition of [Christian] hermeneutics is that universal meaning exists independent of but accessible through, all local expressions of meaning. The presupposition of the critical tradition is that meaning is constructed – by the way we perceive, conceive and think (Kant) and by our language (Derrida)' (2000, p. 6). And so, I find myself writing about roads instead of rivers, intersections instead of confluences.