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For Shively Smith, assistant professor of New Testament and director of the PhD program at Boston University School of Theology, serving as a peer reviewer is an expression of her commitment to the work of theological education and an act that connects her to the larger landscape of theological education across North America. She sees peer review as a “friendmaking process” in which peer reviewers find ways to listen and share across institutional locations and professional experiences to help one another live out their respective missions and values.