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August/September 2021: Lutheran Higher Education, Rooted and Open
- Table of Contents
- Editor's Introduction August/September 2021: Lutheran Higher Education, Rooted and Open
- Congregational Discussion Guide: Lutheran Higher Education
- The Call to Teach: From Professor to Bishop to Seminary President
- Lessons Learned in Teaching Luther in a Pandemic
- Claiming an Authentic Lutheran Identity and Mission in Higher Education
- Interfaith Engagement: Because We’re Lutheran
- For Life, Work, Politics, and Ecology: Climate Justice and Liberal Education
- Bouquet of Humanity: Vocation, Deep Sadness, and Hope in a Virtual Real World
- Book Review: Stjerna, Kirisi. Lutheran Theology: A Grammar of Faith. (NY: T&T Clark, 2021)
June/July 2021: Book Review Issue
- Table of Contents
- Editor's Introduction June/July 2021: Book Review Issue
- Review: Dancing in God’s Earthquake: The Coming Transformation of Religion by Arthur Ocean Waskow and Ladder to the Light: An Indigenous Elder’s Meditations on Hope and Courage by Steven Charleston
- Review: Taking America Back for God: Christian Nationalism in the United States by Andrew L. Whitehead and Samuel L. Perry
- Review: The Violence of the Biblical God: Canonical Narrative and Christian Faith by L. Daniel Hawk
- Review: A Nonviolent Theology of Love: Peacefully Confessing the Apostles’ Creed. By Sharon L. Baker Putt
- Review: Bible and Ethics in the Christian Life: A New Conversation by Bruce C. Birch, Jacqueline E. Lapsley, Cynthia Moe-Lobeda, and Larry Rasmussen
May 2021 Editor's Introduction: Lutheran Ethicists' Gathering Part II
- Table of Contents
- Editor's Introduction May 2021: Lutheran Ethicists' Gathering Part II
- May 2021 Congregational Discussion Guide
- Responsible Lutheran Liberal Education After the COVID-19 Catastrophe: A Short Reflection
- Covid-19 and Conspiracy Theories: Thou Shall Not Bear False Witness
- Presence, Piety, and Belonging: Intentional Digital Experiences during and after COVID-19
Journal of Lutheran Ethics April 2021: Lutheran Ethicists' Gathering Part 1
- Table of Contents
- Editor's Introduction: April/May 2021
- The National Narrative of a Virus
- The Gendered Impact of Covid: (Or “How to Covid, Like a Girl")
- I’m Tired of the Okey-Doke: Ethics in a Cosmopolitan Era
- Editor’s response to the February 2021 Issue
- Letter from the ELCA Authentic Diversity Advisory Team
- A Clarifying Response about the ELCA Strategy Towards Authentic Diversity
- Book Review Introduction April 2021
- Review: Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery by Mark Charles and Soong-Chan Rah
- Review: Finding Jesus at the Border: Opening Our Hearts to the Stories of Our Immigrant Neighbors by Julia Lambert Fogg
- Review: The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again by Robert D. Putnam, with Shaylyn Romney Garrett.
February 2021: Racism, Justice, and Mercy: How Lutherans might think differently and work towards a constructive future of racial justice
- Table of Contents
- Editor’s Introduction
- Luther, Bonhoeffer, Black Lives Matter, and the Role of the Church1
- Overcoming ELCA Racism with Authentic Diversity
- Racial Mercy
- Pursuing a More Diverse Church: A report and two reflections
- Church as Counter-Image to Brutality
- Racism, Justice, and Mercy: For Congregational Discussion
- Tributes to Dr. Cheryl Angela Stewart Pero
- Review: We’re Better Than This, by Elijah Cummings (with Jim Dale)
- Review: The Work of Faith: Divine Grace and Human Agency in Martin Luther’s Preaching by Justin Nickel
- Review: Healing All Creation: Genesis, The Gospel of Mark, and the Story of the Universe by Joan Connell and Adam Bartholomew
October/November 2020: Gun Violence and Childhood Trauma
- Table of Contents
- Editor's Introduction: Gun Violence and Childhood Trauma
- Congregational Discussion Questions: Gun Violence and Childhood Trauma
- The Messianic Reign in Isaiah 11:1-10: A Message to Foster Children Post-Traumatic Growth
- Marching for Our Lives on the Road to Jericho
- #SaveOurChildren, From Those Sworn to Protect and Serve
- Book Review Introduction
- Review: Fear Not: Living Grace and Truth in a Frightened World, by Eric H.F. Law.
- Review: Common Ground: Talking About Gun Violence in America, by Donald V. Gaffney
- Review: Red State Christians: Understanding the Voters Who Elected Donald Trump, by Angela Denker
August/September 2020: Women’s Leadership in the Church, State, and Academy
- Table of Contents
- Editor's Introduction: Women's Ordination August/September 2020
- “We are Determined:” Suffrage, Ordination, and Coeducation
- The Original Order of Things
- Embodiment of Power, Self and Identity: Weaving My Story of Ordination in History
- Women Preachers: An Apocalyptic Image of the Kingdom of God
- Two Short Reflections on Women’s Leadership as Teaching Theologians
- What Makes for a Theological Vocation in the ELCA?
- Review: The Hebrew Bible: Feminist and Intersectional Perspectives, edited by Gale A. Yee
- Review: Passionate for Justice: Ida B. Wells as Prophet for Our Time, by Catherine Meeks and Nib Stroupe
- Holy Mischief: In Honor and Celebration of Women in Ministry, by Mindy Makant
June/July 2020: Book Review Issue
- Table of Contents
- A Note from the Editor: June/July 2020
- Editor's Introduction: Book Review Issue June/July 2020
- Review: The Company of Strangers: Christians and the Renewal of America’s Public Life, by Parker J. Palmer
- Review: I Can Do No Other: The Church’s New Here We Stand Moment, by Anna Madsen
- Review: An Ecological Theology of Liberation: Salvation and Political Ecology, by Daniel P. Castillo
- Review: The Alternative Luther: Lutheran Theology from the Subaltern, edited by Else Marie Wiberg Pedersen
- Review: Kaleidoscope: Broadening the Palette in the Art of Spiritual Direction, edited by Ineda Pearl Adesanya
May 2020 Special Issue: COVID-19
- Table of Contents
- Editor's Introduction: Special May Issue 2020
- Congregational Discussion Guide: COVID-19
- On What We Might Learn from Luther About Ministry in A Pandemic
- Anxiety, Atonement, and Vocation
- Virtually There: Martin Marty, Cyberspace, and Cultures of Trust in the 21st Century
- Technology, Lutheranism, and the Proclamation
- When Did We See You, Lord?
- The H1N1 Pandemic: Ethics and the Common Good
April/May 2020: Lutheran Theology and the Relationship between Church and State
- Table of Contents
- Editor's Introduction: Lutheran Theology and the Relationship between Church and State
- Book Editor's Introduction
- For Congregational Discussion: Lutheran Theology and the Relationship between Church and State
- A Sketch of Luther’s Political Theology on the Question of Church and State with Reflections concerning the Current Responsibility of the Church in Society
- Faith-based Advocacy with Today's United States Government: Summary at Lutheran Ethicists Gathering 2020
- Review: Martin Luther's Theology of Beauty: A Reappraisal, by Mark C. Mattes
- Review: Christ of the Celts, by J. Philip Newell