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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
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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
June/July 2023: Book Review Issue
- Table of Contents
- Editor's Introduction: Summer Book Review Issue
- Book Review: Christianity and the Law of Migration edited by Allard, Silas W., Kristin E. Heyer, and Raj Nadella
- Book Review: Wired For Racism? How Evolution and Faith Move Us to Challenge Racial Idolatry by James Woodall and Mark Ellingsen
- Book Review: Chasing the Devil at Foggy Bottom: The Future of Religion in American Diplomacy by Shaun A. Casey
- Book Review: The Holy Spirit and Christian Experience by Simeon Zahl
- Book Review: Disruption: Repurposing the Church to the Redeem the Community by Mark DeYmaz
February/March 2023: Il/legal Abortion: Lutheran Ethical Responses post-Dobbs
- Table of Contents
- February/March 2023: Editor’s Introduction Il/legal Abortion: Lutheran Ethical Responses Post-Dobbs
- February/March 2023: For Congregational Discussion
- Can We Really Be So Sure When Human Life Begins? What Recent Neurobiological Data Might Entail for the Abortion Debate
- A Complex Position on Abortion: Access, Decision-making, and Legality
- First Thoughts on the End of Roe v. Wade: State Rules, Gender Norms, and the Fragile (or Conditional) Personhood of Women
- Reflections on Abortion and Ethical Discernment in the Church
- Creating a Culture of Life
- February/March 2023: Book Review Introduction
- Book Review: Language for God A Lutheran Perspective by Mary J. Streufert
- Book Review: Bonhoeffer and Climate Change: Theology and Ethics for the Anthropocene by Dianne Rayson
December 2022/January 2023: Civic Engagement and the Relationship of Church and State
- Table of Contents
- Editor's Introduction: December 2022/January 2023 Civic Engagement and the Relationship of Church and State
- For Congregational Discussion: Civic Engagement and the Relationship of Church and State December 2022/January 2023
- Navigating Theological and Ecclesiological Friction in the Church: Olli-Pekka Vainio’s Insights on Virtuous Disagreement
- As We Consider the Witness of the Lutheran Church on Church and State
- The Paradoxical Vision: Robert Benne’s Public Theology in the 21st Century
- Religion and Government: Creating Trustworthy Places to be Different Together (Addressing American Civil Religion and Christian Nationalism)
- Book Review Introduction: December 2022/January 2023
- Book Review: When Sorrow Comes—The Power of Sermons from Pearl Harbor to Black Lives Matter, by Melissa M. Matthes
- Book Review: What Do We Do When Nobody Is Listening? Leading the Church in a Polarized Society by Robin W. Lovin
October/November 2022: What Does It Mean To Be Church Now?
- Table of Contents
- Editor's Introduction: October/November 2022 What Does It Mean To Be Church Now?
- Transformative Theologizing
- The Church’s Faithful Responses to Conspiracy Theories - The Modern Gnosticism
- To be Online or Not To Be Online: Uncovering the Roots of the Debates Concerning Online Worship
- Church Growth and Construction Rebound
- ‘Covenant’ as a Biblical Anchor: Some thoughts for the upcoming Social Statement on Government and Civic Obligation
- For Congregational Discussion: October/November 2022
- Book Review Introduction: October/November 2022
- Book Review: How Luther Became the Reformer by Christine Helmer
- Book Review: Trinitarian Grace in Martin Luther’s The Bondage of the Will by Miikka Roukanen