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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)
July/August 2016: Book Review Issue
- Table of Contents
- 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)
June 2016: Love One Another
- Table of Contents
- Editor's Introduction: Love One Another
- Love your neighbor – A command in the Bible. Its socio-legal backdrop and its meaning for today.
- 1 Corinthians 13: A Text of Terror?
- Review: Christian Ethics at the Boundary: Feminism and Theologies of Public Life (Fortress Press, 2015)
- Review: Thinking About Sex (Fortress Press, 2015)
May 2016: Living in the Shadow of Empire
- Table of Contents
- Editor's Introduction: Living in the Shadow of Empire
- Living in the Shadow of Empire: A Theological Reflection in Conversation with Indigenous Experience
- Vulnerability, Security, Empire, and Confronting Racism: Inspirations from the 2016 Lutheran Ethicists Gathering
- Reading Scripture as a Political Act: Essays on the Theopolitical Interpretation of the Bible (Fortress, 2015)
- The Hidden God: Luther, Philosophy and Political Theology (Indiana University Press, 2015)
April 2016: Meet the Staff
- Table of Contents
- Editor's Introduction: Meet the Staff
- Journal of Lutheran Ethics: In Service to Witness
- Nonviolent Action: What Christian Ethics Demands but Most Christians Have Never Really Tried (Brazos Press, 2015)
- Loving Later Life: An Ethics of Aging (Eerdmans, 2015)
- Millennials and Lutheran Ethics: A Doorway Back Into Connection
- So That You May Discern...