Jason A. Mahn holds the Conrad Bergendoff Chair in the Humanities at Augustana College (Rock Island, IL) and serves as the director of Augustana’s Presidential Center for Faith and Learning. His most recent book is Neighbor Love through Fearful Days: Finding Purpose and Meaning in a Time of Crisis (Fortress, 2021).
Book Review: Grace and Social Ethics: Gift as the Foundation of Our Life Together by Angela Carpenter
October/November 2025: Lutheran Responses to the Crises in Higher Education (Volume 25 Issue 6)
[1] On Sunday, July 20, 2025, my Lutheran congregation sang these lines from “Lord You Give the Great Commission” (ELW #579): Lord, you show us love’s true measure: “Father, what they do, forgive.” Yet we hoard as private treasure all that you so freely give. May your care and mercy lead us to a just […]
Mahn on Christians in Society: Luther, the Bible, and Social Ethics by William Lazareth
[1] Two years ago, I attended a graduate seminar that surveyed the social ethics of foundational Christian thinkers, using Troeltsch’s Social Teachings of the Christian Churches as a roadmap. For our week on Martin Luther, we read “Against the Robbing and Murdering Hordes of Peasants,” “Whether Soldiers, Too, Can Be Saved,” “Temporal Authority: To What […]