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November 2003
- Table of Contents
- Luther and Globalization: A Review of Healing a Broken World: Globalization and God by Cynthia D. Moe-Lobeda
- Evil, Christianity, and Public Discourse
- First the Sentence, Then the Verdict? Counting the Real Cost of Detention and Trial by Military Commission
- Sustainability and the Chlorine Industry: A Report on Dialogue with a Case Study
- The Changing Public Discourse on Ecology
October 2003
- Table of Contents
- Crafting an Ethic of Place: The Columbia River Pastoral Letter Project
- Farm Financial Crisis – Challenges for Ministry among Small Town and Rural Communities, Congregations, and Individuals
- Land-Use Planning and the Quest for Shalom
- Mickey Love at the Magic Kingdom
- On Facing a War against Iraq: Four Theses for a Forum at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary
- Patriotism and Attachment to Place: A Commentary on Joseph Sittler's "The Grace Note," April 1951
- The Grace Note
- The Thunderbolt of God
September 2003
- Table of Contents
- Caring for Creation Today: Dialogue, Debate and Discipleship
- Extinction and Sin
- In, With, and Under: The Lutheran Tradition and the Teaching of Christian Ethics
- On Seeing the Connections: Reflections on the Tenth Anniversary of Caring for Creation
- Our Environmental Ethic—Our Christian Heritage
- Reflections on "Caring for Creation"
- Reflections on the Environmental Task Force (1991-93), The Caring for Creation Statement, and Subsequent Events
- Shelf-Life of a Vision: The 1993 Social Statement on Caring for Creation
- Singing “The Hymn of All Creation”
- Book Notes: Recent Works on the Promise and Peril of Genetic Engineering (1 of 4)
- What Do Religious Institutions Have to Say About Corporate Governance?
- A Review of Law, Life, and the Living God: The Third Use of the Law in Modern American Lutheranism by Scott R. Murray
August 2003
- Table of Contents
- A Spoke in the Wheel
- Bonhoeffer and Resistance to Evil
- Bonhoeffer: The Movie
- Bonhoeffer's Appeal for Ethical Humility
- Christ and the World on the Sources of Social Ethics
- Gathered and Scattered: Worship and Service as What it Means to Be Church
- Readings from the Underside of Selfhood: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Spiritual Formation
July 2003
- Table of Contents
- A Review "from the Field"
- An Interview with Robert Holland
- Comments on "Caring for Health"
- Congregational Strategies for Invigorating Lutheranism’s Just PeaceMaking Tradition
- Just War and Interventionist Foreign Policy
- The Irreproducible Gift: Musings on Christ and Biotechnological Reproduction
- What does it mean to be "Church?" The mission of the Church in Light of Three Biblical Images
- Doing Business Ethics in the Congregation
- Caring For Health: Our Shared Endeavor: A Review
June 2003: The Church in the Corporate World
- Table of Contents
- A Preface to The Church in the Corporate World
- Family First?
- Finding Vocation in the Corporation
- How has Preaching Changed Since September 11? Not at All, and Not Enough
- How the Church Prays in Times of War
- Pacifism, Just War and the Limits of Ethics
- Restoring Joy When Gladness of Marriage Becomes Overcast
- Shareholder Advocacy
- Review of Kurt Senske's Executive Values
- A Review of Navigating Right and Wrong: Ethical Decision Making in a Pluralistic Age
- Luther on the Family
March 2003
- Table of Contents
- A Theological Perspective for Creating a New Food System
- Assessing Major Energy Options
- Loving my Neighbor in the Whole of God's Creation
- Nuclear Power, ANWR, and Global Warming
- Sustainable Energy Futures: Economic and Ecological Ramifications of U.S. Energy Policy
- The Justice of War on Iraq
- Redesigning Humans: The Final Frontier
February 2003
- Table of Contents
- Am I Righteous or What? I Drive a Honda Civic That Gets 40 MPG!
- Interpreting the Islamic Ethics of War and Peace
- Justification for Violence in Islam: Part I, Introductory Remarks
- Justification for Violence in Islam: Part II, The Interplay between Religion and Power in Islam
- Justification for Violence in Islam: III: Jih_d as a Defensive Strategy or a Means of "Calling"?
- Justification for Violence in Islam: IV: The Need for Legitimate Authority to Sanction Violence in the Name of God
- Justification for Violence in Islam: V. The Law of Rebellion
- Justification for Violence in Islam: Part VI, Pacifist Activism in Islamic Legal System
- Justification for Violence in Islam: Part VII, Martyrdom, the Peak of Activism in Islam
- Justification for Violence in Islam: Part VIII, Quietism rather than Pacifism in Islam
- Justification for Violence in Islam: Part IX, Quietist Authoritarianism and Activist Radicalism
- Justification for Violence in Islam: Part X, Concluding Remarks
- The Authority of the Church in the World: A New Testament Perspective