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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
August 2010: Preaching the Law
- Table of Contents
- Preaching Justice
- Preaching the Law in the Christ-Haunted South
- The Preaching of the Law to Lawbreakers
- Preaching the Law in My Pastoral Setting
- Preaching Law to the "Lost Generation"
- Response to Mattes' "Response" to Paths Not Taken
- Gustaf Wingren’s Luther on Vocation after Sixty-five Years
- J. Michael Reu on the Christian Life
July 2010: An Excruciating Tension
- Table of Contents
- Lessons on Giving Learned in Haiti
- Primum non nocere: Ethical Principles of Mission Trips after Disaster
- Paul Collier’s The Bottom Billion
- Jeffrey Sachs’ The End of Poverty
- Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn’s Half the Sky
- Martin Luther on the Christian Life
- Haiti’s Future: Repeating Disasters
June 2010: Voluntary Poverty in the Economy of the Spirit
- Table of Contents
- Editor's Comments - Voluntary Poverty in the Economy of the Spirit
- Patristic Christian Views on Poverty and Hunger
- Mark’s Gospel, Social Outcasts, and Modern Slavery
- Who Gets to Eat? Consumption, Complicity, and Poverty
- Review of Reta Halteman Finger, Of Widows and Meals: Communal Meals in the Book of Acts
- Editors’ Comment to the CORE Responses
- A Response to Dr. Pahl’s Critique of Lutheran CORE
- A Rejoinder to Robert Benne and Cathy A. Ammlung
- C.S. Lewis on the Christian Life
- Addressing Hunger and Poverty Today
May 2010: Public or Private?
- Table of Contents
- Editor's Comments - Public or Private?
- A Love for Life: An Introduction to Three Reviews
- Review of: A Love for Life: Christianity’s Consistent Protection of the Unborn by Dennis R. Di Mauro
- Review of: A Love for Life: Christianity’s Consistent Protection of the Unborn by Dennis R. Di Mauro
- Responses to A Love for Life Reviews
- Introduction to Hinlicky Book Review
- Response to Hinlicky's "Paths Not Taken"
- The Core of Lutheran CORE: American Civil Religion and White Male Backlash
- A Response to "The Core of Lutheran CORE"
- Johann Sebastian Bach on the Christian Life