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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
August/September 2022: Gender Identity, Gender Expression, and Sexuality
- Table of Contents
- Editor’s Introduction
- The Humanity of Transgender and Nonbinary People
- Reimagining Vocation: Queer, Lutheran, with Room for All
- ‘Generation Roe’?: Neighbor-Care in the Shadow of Freedoms Lost
- A Case Study in the Ethics of Dialogue: ELCA Sexuality Study 2002-2005
- Luther Scholarship Under the Conditions of Patriarchy
- For Congregational Discussion: August/September 2022: Gender Identity, Gender Expression, and Sexuality
- Book Review Editor's Introduction
- Book Review: Aging and Loving: Christian Faith and Sexuality in Later Life
- Book Review: The Generative Power of Hope: Anticipating Possibilities in Times of Crises
June/July 2022 Book Review Issue
- Table of Contents
- Editor's Introduction: Book Review Issue 2022
- I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Courageously Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times by Mónica Guzmán
- Amending the Christian Story: The Natural Sciences as a Window into Grounded Faith and Sustainable Living by Ron Rude
- There Is No God and Mary Is His Mother: Rediscovering Religionless Christianity by Thomas Cathcart
- Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen
- Religion within the Limits of History Alone: Pragmatic Historicism and the Future of Theology by Demian Wheeler
April/May 2022: Restorative Justice: Prospects for Transformation & Penitence
- Table of Contents
- Editor's Introduction April/May 2022: Restorative Justice: Prospects for Transformation & Penitence
- For Congregational Discussion April/May 2022: Restorative Justice: Prospects for Transformation & Penitence
- We Want Justice: Retributive, Distributive, and Restorative Justice
- On Pardon, Reparations, and a Politics of Penitence
- Book Review: Christianity, Social Justice, and the Japanese American Incarceration during World War II by Anne M. Blankenship
February/March 2022: Pastoral Ethics
- Table of Contents
- Editor's Introduction, February/March 2022: Pastoral Ethics
- For Congregational Discussion: Pastoral Ethics
- Everyone is In Debt!
- Sacrilege: Side-Hustles and Non-Living-Wage Work
- Agapic Love, Social Media, and Clergy Ethics
- How Do We Start Again?: Reconsidering Pastoral Ethics in the ELCA from the Vantage Point of Interim Ministry
- Book Review Editor's Introduction: February/March 2022
- Book Review: Facing Apocalypse: Climate, Democracy, and Other Last Chances by Catherine Keller
- Book Review: Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents by Rod Dreher
December 2021/January 2022: 2020-2021, A Retrospective
- Table of Contents
- Editor's Introduction: December 2021/January 2022, 2020-2021, A Retrospective
- Congregational Discussion Guide: 2020-2021, A Retrospective
- Review: To Baptize or Not to Baptize by Sarah Hinlicky Wilson
- Review: White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity by Robert P. Jones
October/November 2021: The Ethics of Pan-Lutheran Dialogue
- Table of Contents
- Editor's Introduction October/November 2021: The Ethics of Pan-Lutheran Dialogue
- For Congregational Discussion: The Ethics of Pan-Lutheran Dialogue and Debate
- The Lutheran Commitment to Conversation with Other Christians
- Conversation at the Crossroads: On the Editorial Vision of Lutheran Forum
- Transcending Differences to Fulfill God’s Calling
- Review: We Carry the Fire: Family and Citizenship as Spiritual Calling by Richard A. Hoehn
- Book Review Introduction: October/November 2021
- Review: Enemies of the Cross: Suffering, Truth and Mysticism in the Early Reformation by Vincent Evener
- Review: Picture the Bible by Stacy Johnson Myers