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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
April 2010: You Can Handle the Truth (Immigration)
- Table of Contents
- Moving beyond Hospitality
- Martin Luther’s Pragmatic Revision of Traditional Natural Law Theory
- Ethics without Political Science
- Grounding Theologically the Call for Immigration Reform
- Lying in a Bed of Scorpions
- Martin Luther King, Jr. on the Christian Life
- Editor's Comments - You Can Handle the Truth
March 2010
- Table of Contents
- Human Trafficking: Flourishing in the Shadows, Demanding Our Attention
- The Book of Ruth: A Voice That Calls Out from Ancient Days
- Your Body, Myself: Combating Human Trafficking with Theology of the Body
- The Lutheran Church in Latvia Wants to Ban the Ordination of Women
- What Has Paris to Do with Augsburg?: Natural Law and Lutheran Ethics
- Protestant Bias against the Natural Law: A Critique
- Some Reflections on the Problem of Natural Law: Comments on the Papers
- John Calvin on the Christian Life
- Contemplating the Trinity for Lent
January 2010
- Table of Contents
- Planning for an Epidemic
- The H1N1 Pandemic: Ethics and the Common Good
- Exploring the Impact of the Pandemic Flu in Long Term Care Settings
- Ethical Deliberation at Alegent Health
- Living Out a “Social Responsibility”: Reaching Out to Congregations and Communities in a Pandemic
- Practical Theology and Practicalities in Church Response to Emergencies
- Socialism: A Reality Check
- Immanuel Kant on the Christian Life
December 2009: Ordaining Women
- Table of Contents
- Introduction to Ordaining Women
- The Authority of Scripture, Women’s Ordination and the Lutheran Church of Australia
- Obispa — A New Paradigm in Bolivia
- Historical Document: Some Thoughts on the Ordination of Women and the Lutheran Confessions
- Ordaining Women Goes to the Heart of the Gospel
- Muhlenberg’s Adaptive Ecclesial Order
November 2009
- Table of Contents
- Introduction to A Report from the Front Lines
- What Lutheran Ethics Can Learn from Other Christian Ethical Traditions
- Reflections on the ELCA Churchwide Assembly and the Bible
- Joint Declaration on Justification: History Making or Precious Memory?
- Conventional Energy Options
- Energy, Development, and Quality of Life
- A Postscript: Using Ethical Principles to Guide Decision-Making about Energy Use
- A Report from the Front Lines: Conversations on Public Theology
- A Review by Dr. Martha Stortz
- A Report from the Front Lines: Conversations on Public Theology
- Jonathan Edwards on the Christian Life
- Gregory of Nyssa on the Christian Life
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