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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
September/October 2017: Lutherans and Sanctification
- Table of Contents
- 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)
May 2017: Economics and Sanctification
- Table of Contents
- 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)
March 2017: Doctrine of Discovery
- Table of Contents
- 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)
February 2017: Student Debt
- Table of Contents
- 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)
December/January 2016/7: Post-election America
- Table of Contents
- 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)
November 2016: Puerto Rico
- Table of Contents
- 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)
October 2016: Politics
- Table of Contents
- 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)