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December 2019/January 2020: Immigration: Moving Forward Faithfully
- Table of Contents
- Editor's Introduction: Immigration: Moving Forward Faithfully
- For Congregational Discussion: Immigration
- Learning from the Barmen Declaration of 1934: Theological-Ethical-Political Commentary
- A Pastoral Reflection of Congregational Response During a Family Separation Crisis
- Christ at the Border: Finding Courage to Resist in a Theology of the Cross
- Welcoming the Stranger? Rethinking Our Language of Hospitality
- Review: Migrants and Citizens: Justice and Responsibility in the Ethics of Immigration, by Tisha Rajendra
- Review: The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life, by Lauren Markham
- Recent Films Feature Migration Themes
October/November 2019: The Ethics of Dialogue and Debate
- Table of Contents
- Editor's Introduction
- For Congregational Discussion: The Ethics of Dialogue and Debate
- Theological Touchstones for Disagreeing in the Body of Christ
- A Different Way of Talking
- Preaching Across the Political Red-Blue Divide: Using the Sermon-Dialogue-Sermon Method in the Purple Zone
- The Ethics of Dialogue and Debate Book Review Editor's Introduction
- Review: Preaching in the Purple Zone: Ministry in the Red-Blue Divide. by Leah D. Schade.
- Dear Church: A Love Letter from a Black Preacher to the Whitest Denomination in the United States by Lenny Duncan
August 2019: Book Review Issue
- Table of Contents
- Editor's Introduction: Book Review Issue August/September 2019
- Introducing Myself as the New Editor of JLE
- Review: Womanist Sass and Talk Back: Social (In)justice, Intersectionality, and Biblical Interpretation. By Mitzi J. Smith
- Review: Chance, Necessity, Love: An Evolutionary Theology of Cancer by Leonard M. Hummel and Gayle E. Woloschak
- Review: Why Buddhism Is True: the Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment, by Robert Wright
June/July 2019: Income Inequality Part II
- Table of Contents
- Editor's Introduction: Income Inequality Part II and Remembering Jim Echols
- Editor's Introduction: Income Inequality Part II and Remembering Jim Echols
- On Emphasizing the Communal Dimension of an Economic Ethic of Neighbor Love
- Review: The End of Ice and The Uninhabitable Earth
- Luther’s Economic Ethic of Neighbor-love and Its Implications for Economic Life Today – A Gift to the World
- Resolution in Loving Memory of the Rev. Dr. James Kenneth Echols
- Book Review Introduction
- Review: Our Planet, Netflix (Narrated by David Attenborough, Produced by Alastair Fothergill)
- Luther’s Economic Ethic of Neighbor-love and Its Implications for Economic Life Today – A Gift to the World
- On Emphasizing the Communal Dimension of an Economic Ethic of Neighbor Love
- Resolution in loving memory of the Rev. Dr. James Kenneth Echols
- Journal of Lutheran Ethics Book Review Introduction June/July 2019
April/May 2019: Income Inequality Part I
- Table of Contents
- Editor's Introduction: Not an April Fool’s Issue: Growing Income Inequality
- Response to “An Economic Reading of Luther on the Eucharist, or How a ‘Sacramental Economics’ Made Matter Matter in New Ways”
- An Economy of Grace: Inequality and Lutheran Witness
- Response to "An Economy of Grace: From the Margins of the Margins"
- Review: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Penguin Random House, 2016)
- An Economic Reading of Luther on the Eucharist, or How a Sacramental Economics Made Matter Matter in New Ways
January/February 2019: In Memory of Vítor Westhelle
- Table of Contents
- Editor's Introduction: Ode to a Theologian of the Cross
- God and Justice: The Word and the Mask
- Justification and Justice: Luther on the Love of the Enemy as Criterion of Justice
- Review: The Dark Interval: Letters on Loss, Grief, and Transformation by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Review: Transfiguring Luther: The Planetary Promise of Luther’s Theology
September/October 2018: The Future of Theological Education
- Table of Contents
- Editor's Introduction: The Future of Theological Education
- The Courage to Network
- A Kairos Moment for Theological Education in the ELCA: Reflections on TEAC from the Margins
- Review: Seeing-Remembering-Connecting: Subversive Practices of Being Church
- Review: Lutheran Theology and Secular Law: The Work of the Modern State
July/August 2018: Book Review Issue
- Table of Contents
- Editor's Introduction: Book Review Issue 2018
- Review: On Secular Governance: Lutheran Perspectives on Contemporary Legal Issues (Eerdmans, 2016)
- Review: U.S. War Culture, Sacrifice and Salvation
- Review: Care for the Sorrowing Soul: Healing Moral Injuries from Military Service and Implications for the Rest of Us
- Review: Becoming a Christian In Christendom: Radical Discipleship and the Way of the Cross in America's "Christian" Culture
- Review: The Marvelous Mustard Seed
- Review: The Violence of Climate Change: Lessons of Resistance from Non-Violent Activists
May/June 2018: Spotlighting Inter-religious Dialogue & Action
- Table of Contents
- Editor's Introduction: Spotlighting Inter-religious Dialogue & Action
- Front Lines
- Part I: Are We Really a Public Church? Ministry in a Multi-Faith North America
- The Church Engaging Our Multi-Religious World: Ever-Serving, Ever-Reforming, Ever-Reconciling
- Part II: Public Ministry in Multi-Faith Contexts: What It Is Not, What It Is and What It Requires of Religious Leaders
- Review: Coming Home to Earth (Cascade Books, 2016)
- Review: Radical Discipleship: A Liturgical Politics of the Gospel (Fortress Press, 2017)
March/April 2018: Dignity, Challenge, and ELCA Social Statements
- Table of Contents
- Editor's Introduction: Dignity, Challenge, and ELCA Social Statements
- When “Farming and Faith Collide”: The Role of Agrarianism and Libertarianism in the Opposition to the ELCA’s Statement on Genetics and Faith
- Distilling Dignity: Our (ELCA) Emerging Definition
- Review: Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship (Simon & Schuster, 2017)
- Review: Love in a Time of Climate Change: Honoring Creation, Establishing Justice (Fortress Press, 2017)
- Review: Building the Good Life for All: Transforming Income Inequality in Our Communities (WJK, 2017)
- Review: Picture the Bible Curricula (First Congregational United Church of Christ, River Falls, WI)
- Review: Changing World, Changeless Christ: The American Lutheran Publicity Bureau, 1914--2014