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January/February 2018: 500th Observance of the Reformation

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Editor's Introduction: Lutherans and Sanctification
Sanctification and Lutheran Ethics
The End of the Human: Relocating Sanctification in Luther’s Thought
Review: Creation-Crisis Preaching: Ecology, Theology, and the Pulpit (Chalice Press, 2015)
Review: Earth Ethics: A Case Method Approach (Orbis Books, 2015)

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Review: Thinking About Sex (Fortress Press, 2015)
Review: Sin Boldly: Justifying Faith for Fragile and Broken Souls (Fortress Press, 2015)
Review: Christian Economic Ethics: History and Implications (Fortress Press, 2013)

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Editor’s Introduction: Economism and Sanctification
Of Fruit Trees and Newborn Babes: Luther and Wesley on Moral Transformation
De-Mythologizing the Myth of Economism
Review: Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter (Princeton University Press, 2016)
Review: Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging (Hatchette Book Group, 2016)

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Editor's Introduction: Understanding the Doctrine of Discovery
The Doctrine of christian Discovery: Lutherans and the Language of Empire
A Reflection on the 2016 ELCA Churchwide Assembly’s Repudiation of the Doctrine of Discovery
Review: Human Dignity and the Future of Global Institutions (Georgetown University Press, 2014)
Review: Martin Luther and the Called Life (Fortress Press, 2016)

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Editor's Introduction: Student Debt
Postsecondary Student Debt Bondage - A Case for Public Ethics
The Importance of Talking about Money
Salvation for the Sinned-Against: Han and Schillebeeckx in Intercultural Dialogue (Pickwick/Wipf&Stock, 2015
Routledge Handbook of Religion and Politics, second edition (Routledge, 2016)

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Editor's Introduction: Post-election America
A Womanist Perspective on the Election of Donald Trump: What Pastors Are Called to Do
9.5 Theses for Times Such as These
Seeing Ourselves as Parts of One Body: An Exercise in Exploring Racism from a Place of Privilege
The Forgotten Luther: Reclaiming the Social-Economic Dimension of the Reformation (Lutheran University Press, 2016)
Congregational Discussion Questions -- Seeing Ourselves as Parts of One Body: An Exercise in Exploring Racism from a Place of Privilege
Christian Ethics and the Church: Ecclesial Foundations for Moral Thought and Practice (Baker Academic, 2015)

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Editor's Introduction: Puerto Rico
Crisis en Puerto Rico y la voz luterana
Decolonizing Theology: The Case of Puerto Rico
Crisis in Puerto Rico and the Lutheran Voice
Review: Moral Warriors, Moral Wounds: The Ministry of the Christian Ethic Eugene (Cascade Books, 2016)
Review: Moral Warriors, Moral Wounds: The Ministry of the Christian Ethic Eugene (Cascade Books, 2016)

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Editor's Introduction: Politics
A Lutheran Bishop’s Reflections on the Church’s Public Work of Advocacy
Lutherans and the Political Challenges of 2016
Review: My Report to the World: Story of a Secret State (Georgetown University Press, 2013)
Review: A Christian Justice for the Common Good (Abingdon Press, 2016)

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Editor's Introduction: Book Review Issue
Review: The Paradox of Church and World: Selected Writings of H. Richard Niebuhr (Fortress Press, 2015)
Review: Killing from the Inside Out: Moral Injury and Just War (Cascade Books, 2014)
Review: A Conversation with Martin Marty about His New Book
Review: Killing from the Inside Out: Moral Injury and Just War (Cascade Books, 2014)