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January 2012: Wise as Serpents, Innocent as Doves: Forming Counter-Cultural Christians in an Age of Consumer Media / Advertising
- Table of Contents
- Editor's Introduction - Wise as Serpents, Innocent as Doves: Forming Counter-Cultural Christians in an Age of Consumer Media / Advertising
- Young Adults in Global Mission: Life without Consumerism
- Identity in Youth — Answers from a Therapist
- Commodifying the Child: a historical look at the idolatry of the market and the Truth we have to tell
- Consumer Families, Virtue and the Common Good
- Contesting the Formative Power of Consumer Culture: Problems, Resources, Possibilities
- Behind the Online Curtain: Online Advertising, Teens and the Christian Form
- Consumerism on Campus: A Lutheran Response
- Shop the Fear Away, Girls! Man Up, Boys!
- Adolescent Identity in the midst of Malls and Amazon.com — living in an alternative economy
- Reality Bites Back: We Can Fight Back
- Getting Your Meta On
November 2011
- Table of Contents
- Questions Amidst the Silence: One Canadian’s Ethical Reflections on September 11th
- Derek R. Nelson's What's Wrong with Sin? Sin in Individual and Social Perspective from Schleiermacher to Theologies of Liberation
- Editor's Introduction
- Advent, Virtue Ethics, and the Telological Suspension of the Ethical
- Martin Luther's Theology: A Contemporary Interpretation by Oswald Bayer, reviewed by Dennis Bielfeldt
- Martin Luther's Theology: A Contemporary Interpretation by Oswald Bayer, reviewed by Sarah Hinlicky Wilson
- The Americanization of American Lutheranism: Democratization of Authority and the Ordination of Women, Part II
- Martin Luther's Theology: A Contemporary Interpretation by Oswald Bayer, reviewed by Paul Sponheim
- Justice As a Memorial
- Interview with William Schweiker
- Budrus: Considering Alternative Narratives
October 2011
- Table of Contents
- There will be an answer...
- How It Is and How It Might Have Been Otherwise
- Editor's Comments - Authority in the Church, Part II
- Rethinking Authority in the Church Today
- The Americanization of American Lutheranism: Democratization of Authority and the Ordination of Women, Part I
- Editor's Comments - Authority in the Church
- Publisher's Commentary - JLE Publishes On
- Sources of Authority in the Lutheran Tradition: Back to the Future
- Sources of Authority according to the Lutheran Confessions
- Review of Peter Leithart's, Defending Constantine: The Twilight of an Empire and the Dawn of Christendom
- Response to Timothy J. Furry
- Review of Good and Bad Ways of Thinking About Religion and Politics by Robert Benne
July 2011
- Table of Contents
- Editor's Comments - Farewell and Thank You
- Review Essay: The Revolution Ate Its Children — Two New Essay Collections Address the Embodied Politic
- Paul R. Hinlicky's Luther and the Beloved Community: A Path for Christian Theology after Christendom
- A Tale of Convergence: Eschatology, Anthropology, Ethics and Trinity
- Carl E. Braaten’s Because of Christ: Memoirs of a Lutheran Theologian
- Bart D. Ehrman’s God’s Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question — Why We Suffer
- Review Essay: Four Complimentary Complaints about Unsettling Arguments: A Festschrift on the Occasion of Stanley Hauerwas's 70th Birthday
- E.W. Mueller on the Christian Life
- Response to Bo Kristian Holm
May/June 2011: Interfaith
- Table of Contents
- Editor's Comments - Washing Your Ears: On Inter-Religious Friendships
- Dwelling in God's Household: A Lutheran Perspective on Interfaith Relations
- German Lutherans and Assimilation: Lessons in the Current Atmosphere of Islamophobia
- Forming Religious Identity in the Context of Religious Pluralism
- Catching Up with Mary Nelson
- Response to Hearing the Cries: Faith and Criminal Justice
- Response to Hearing the Cries: Faith and Criminal Justice
- Response to Hearing the Cries: Faith and Criminal Justice
- Introduction to Reviews of Daniel Rice's Reinhold Niebuhr Revisited: Engagements with an American Original
- Daniel Rice's Reinhold Niebuhr Revisited: Engagements with an American Original
- Patricia Beattie Jung and Aana Marie Vigen's God, Science, Sex, Gender: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Christian Ethics
- Introduction to Daniel Bell's Response to Paul Hinlicky
- Daniel Rice's Reinhold Niebuhr Revisited: Engagements with an American Original
- Response to Paul Hinlicky's Review of Liberation Theology after the End of History
- Thomas Aquinas on the Christian Life
- Response to Hearing the Cries: Faith and Criminal Justice
March 2011: Christ Made Sin and Criminal Justice
- Table of Contents
- Response to Hearing the Cries: Faith and Criminal Justice
- Response to Hearing the Cries: Faith and Criminal Justice
- Response to Hearing the Cries: Faith and Criminal Justice
- Response to Hearing the Cries: Faith and Criminal Justice
- Response to Hearing the Cries: Faith and Criminal Justice
- The Youth Revolution in Egypt and the Church’s Response?
- Hearing the Cries: Conversations with Luther and the USCCB
- Robert D. Putnam and David E. Campbell’s American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us and Adam Taylor’s Mobilizing Hope: Faith-Inspired Activism for a Post-Civil Rights Generation
- Harriet Beecher Stowe on the Christian Life
- Editor's Comments - Christ Made Sin and Criminal Justice
December 2010
- Table of Contents
- One Pastor's Response to Harry Potter
- Conscience in the Theology of Martin Luther and Søren Kierkegaard
- Gary Dorrien’s Social Ethics in the Making
- Blessed are the Undocumented? A Reflection on Matthew 5:1-12
- Incarnation and the Holy Innocents
- Editor's Comments - The Advent of Justice
- The Institutional Dilemma of Principled Dissent
- What Is a Conscience, Anyway?
- Response to John Stumme on Conscience
November 2010: A Matter of Conscience?
- Table of Contents
- Editor's Introduction - A Matter of Conscience?
- "Conscience-bound Beliefs" Rule and the "Conscience-bound-belief" Rule
- Law and Gospel: A Problem with Bound Conscience
- "Neither Jew nor Greek, Male nor Female, Slave nor Free, Strong nor Weak": A Call to Friendship in Christ
- Reinhold Niebuhr as a Perennial Resource for Public Theology
- Daniel M. Bell, Jr.'s Liberation Theology after the End of History: The Refusal to Cease Suffering
- John Milbank and Slavoj Žižek’s The Monstrosity of Christ
- Farewell
- Of Lament and Gratitude
- Luther’s Understanding of the Bound Conscience
- Swords, Plowshares and Guns in Church
October 2010: Liturgy, Lutheran Identity
- Table of Contents
- Planning Ecumenical Worship
- "Music Is Prayer:" Reconsidering Secular Music
- Liturgical Practice and Ethical Perspective: Revisiting the Marriage Liturgy
- Editor’s Introduction
- How Can I Keep from Singing? An Appeal to Christians to Sing the Faith
- Worship and the Missio Dei
- A Globally Inclusive Ecumenical Model for the 21st Century
- Preaching on Social Issues
- Thieves in the Temple: Intellectual Property, Use of Media, and the Law (Not Yet) Written on Our Hearts
September 2010: Liturgical Ethics
- Table of Contents
- Editor's Comments - Liturgical Ethics
- Editor's Comments - Preaching the Law
- Recognizing the Other in Liturgical Acts: Religious Pluralism and Eucharist
- Racial Disparities in the American Criminal Justice System
- Liturgical Practice as the Model for Justice
- Theological Themes in Criminal Justice
- Midwives of Word and Sacrament
- Retributive Justice: A Penitential Pedagogy
- Branded: Preaching the Law (and Sex) to Youth
- The Jebeliya: Reflections on Development
- Prolific Consumption of Tech Goods Harms People and the Environment
- The Return of Eschatological Economics [1]
- Gustaf Wingren on the Christian Life