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December 2024/January 2025: Vocation in Turbulent Times
- Table of Contents
- Editor's Introduction: Vocation in Turbulent Times
- For Congregational Discussion: Vocation in Turbulent Times
- Whom Shall I Send? A Reflection on Isaiah 6 Concerning Vocation in Difficult Times
- Gardening in the Time of Genocide
- Vocational Attunement in Our Distracted Digital Age
- Called to Resist Extinction—until we fail.
- Book Review Introduction: December 2024/January 2025
- Book Review: The Problem of 12: When a Few Financial Institutions Control Everything by John Coates
- Book Review: Christ and the Common Life: The Case for Democracy by Luke Bretherton
- Book Review: Moving Beyond: Toward Transformative Theologizing by Karen L. Bloomquist
October/November 2024: Ordinary Faith as an Antidote to Polarization
- Table of Contents
- Editor's Introduction: Ordinary Faith as an Antidote to Polarization
- October/November 2024: For Congregational Discussion
- Doctrinal Theology: Enlightening The Root Which Bears the Fruit
- Beyond Purity: An Extended Review of Ordinary Faith
- The Importance of Moral Discernment: An Extended Review of Ordinary Faith
- Whose Justice?: Specifying Terms and Adding Examples in a Review of Ordinary Faith in Polarized Times
- Justification and Justice-Seeking: Beyond a Dualist Inheritance
- Leaning In to the Constructive Criticisms: On Justice, the Heart of the Gospel, Quietism, and Both-Sideism`
- Book Review Introduction: October/November 2024
- Book Review: Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes Du Mez
- Journal of Lutheran Ethics: The Podcast Episode 2 "Unpacking Ordinary Faith in Polarized Times"
August/September 2024: Ethical Considerations on Artificial Intelligence
- Table of Contents
- Editor's Introduction: Ethical Considerations on Artificial Intelligence.
- For Congregational Discussion: Ethical Considerations on Artificial Intelligence
- Ethical Considerations and Artificial Intelligence
- Looking into the AI Mirror: Optimism, Pessimism, or Something Else?
- The Technical and Ethical Challenges of Generative Model Alignment
- Book Review Introduction: August/September 2024
- Book Review: Is Artificial Intelligence Racist? The Ethics of AI and the Future of Humanity by Arshin Adib-Moghaddam
- Book Review: Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech by Jamie Susskind
June/July 2024: Responses to Christian Nationalism
- Table of Contents
- Editor's Introduction: Responses to Christian Nationalism
- For Congregational Discussion: Responses to Christian Nationalism
- 90 Years Barmen Declaration of Faith (1934)
- The “God Bless the USA Bible”: White Christian Nationalism and the Hermeneutic of Fear
- A Different Approach to Christian Nationalism
- Resources on Christian Nationalism
April/May 2024: Protecting Children: What Is the Role of the ELCA?
- Table of Contents
- Editor's Introduction: Protecting Children: What Is the Role of the ELCA?
- Lutheran Foundations for Promoting Child Well-being and Addressing Child Maltreatment
- Providing Pastoral Care to Survivors of Child Abuse
- Panel Discussion on Child Welfare: Lutheran Ethicists' Gathering 2024
- For Congregational Discussion: Protecting Children: What Is the Role of the ELCA?
- Book Review Introduction: April/May 2024
- Book Review: The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet by Jeff Goodell
- Book Review: 4D Formation: Exploring Vocation in Community by Andrew Tucker
- New! Journal of Lutheran Ethics: The Podcast, Episode 1
February/March 2024: Grief, Mourning, and Distress and the Search for Spiritual Care
- Table of Contents
- Editor's Introduction: Grief, Mourning, and Distress and the Search for Spiritual Care
- Mourning
- The Gift of Spiritual Guidance
- For Congregational Discussion: Re-imagining Vocation for a Frustrating, Demoralizing, Changing World
- Book Review Introduction: February/March 2024
- Book Review: The Invisible Ache: Black Men Identifying Their Pain And Reclaiming Their Power by Courtney B. Vance and Dr. Robin L. Smith with Charisse Jones
- Book Review: The Dark Interval: Letters on Loss, Grief, and Transformation by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Book Review: Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair by Christian Wiman
December 2023/January 2024: Addressing the Sin of Child Abuse
- Table of Contents
- Editor's Introduction: Addressing the Sin of Child Abuse
- For Congregational Discussion: Addressing the Sin of Child Abuse
- The Haustafeln (Household Codes) in Ephesians and the Potential for Child Abuse
- The Least of These: The Urgent Need for ELCA Seminaries to Prepare Called Workers to Minister to Survivors of Abuse and Develop Trauma-Informed Congregations
- Grounding Child Protection in Six Core Commitments: Theology and Ethics
- Book Review Introduction: December 2023/January 2024
- Book Review: We Are Electric: Inside the 300-Year Hunt for Our Body’s Bioelectric Code, and What the Future Holds by Sally Adee
- Book Review: The Magi: Who They Were, How They’ve Been Remembered, and Why They Still Fascinate by Eric Vanden Eykel
October/November 2023: The Lutheran Catechism as a Call Towards Our Ethical Concerns
- Table of Contents
- Editor's Introduction: The Lutheran Catechism as a Call Towards Our Ethical Concerns
- For Congregational Discussion: The Lutheran Catechism as a Call Towards Our Ethical Concerns
- Communion for All: A Queer, Lutheran Sacrament of Wild Welcome
- The Theology of Holy Communion Empowers Christians to End Sexual Harassment and Assault
- Creation Theology and the Climate Crisis
- Delighting in our Neighbors Who are Non-Religious: A Lutheran Theological Proposal
- Book Review: The Lost Art of Scripture: Rescuing the Sacred Texts by Karen Armstrong
- Book Review: White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity by Robert P. Jones
August/September 2023: The Ethics of Interfaith Dialogue
- Table of Contents
- Editor's Introduction: The Ethics of Interfaith Dialogue
- For Congregational Discussion: The Ethics of Interfaith Dialogue
- “But what if they lose their faith?” Creating Appreciative Multifaith Classrooms in Seminary
- Interfaith Dialogue as Co-Creative Process
- Taking Responsibility for Interreligious Engagement in Prayer
- Christian Unity Now
- Considerations for Preaching on International Transgender Day of Visibility
- Book Review Introduction: August/September 2023
- Book Review: Break Every Yoke: Religion, Justice, and the Abolition of Prisons by Joshua Dubler and Vincent W. Lloyd
- Book Review: A Cold, Descending Fog: Letters Home and a Memoir from Wartime Berlin, 1939-1940 edited by Stewart Herman III
April/May 2023: Guns, Violence, Security in the U.S.: What Might the ELCA Say Now?
- Table of Contents
- Editor's Introduction: Guns, Violence, Security in the U.S.: What Might the ELCA Say Now?
- April/May 2023: For Congregational Discussion
- From Controlling Guns to Making Peace: An Assessment of ELCA Social Policy and Public Witness
- Understanding and Misunderstanding American Gun Culture and Violence
- Notes from the Dialogue: What Can the ELCA Say or Do about Gun Violence Now?
- April/May 2023: Book Editor's Introduction
- Book Review: Fight Like Jesus: How Jesus Waged Peace Throughout Holy Week by Jason Porterfield