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March 2016: Women's Ordination
- Table of Contents
- Editor's Introduction: Women's Ordination
- Guest Editorial: Reflections from 45 Years of Ordaining Women
- Women and Theological Writing During the Reformation
- Ordaining Women Goes to the Heart of the Gospel
- Review: The Living God and the Fullness of Life (WJK Press, 2015)
- Historical Document: Some Thoughts on the Ordination of Women and the Lutheran Confessions
February 2016: Facing Climate Change
- Table of Contents
- Editor's Introduction: Facing Climate Change
- Pastoral Care and Ecological Devastation: Un-Interpreting the Silence
- May 17th, 2015 Commencement Speech by Archbishop Antje Jackelén at Lutheran School of Theology Chicago
- Review: Bonhoeffer’s Black Jesus: Harlem Renaissance Theology and an Ethic of Resistance (Baylor University Press, 2014)
- Review: A Child Shall Lead Them: Martin Luther King, Jr., Young People, and The Movement (Fortress Press, 2014)
January 2016: Gentrification
- Table of Contents
- Editor's Introduction: Gentrification
- Imagining Whole Cities: The Church’s Role in a Gentrifying Neighborhood
- Review: An Introduction to Christian Environmentalism: Ecology, Virtue, and Ethics (Baylor University Press, 2014)
- Review: Following Jesus: Biblical Reflections on Discipleship (Eerdmans, 2014)
- Gentrification: Causes and Consequences
November/December 2015: Immigration
- Table of Contents
- Editor's Introduction: The Plight of Immigrants and Refugees
- Amando la Misericordia -- Practicando la Justicia
- Lutheran Ethicists' Gathering
- Loving Mercy – Doing Justice
- The Other Jonathan Edwards: Selected Writings on Society, Love, and Justice (University of Massachusetts Press, 2015)
- Jesus and Jihad: Reclaiming the Prophetic Heart of Christianity and Islam (Cascade Books, 2015)
- Children Immigration and Semantics Migration
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October 2015: #BlackLivesMatter
- Table of Contents
- Editor's Introduction: #BlackLivesMatter
- A City Unraveled: The Baltimore Riots and the Response of the Faith Community
- Changing the Questions: Explorations in Christian Ethics (Maryknoll, 2015)
- The Role of Church for Such a Time as This
- black ruminations
- Review: Hidden Inheritance: Family Secrets, Memory, and Faith (Abingdon Press, 2015)
September 2015: Faith and Justice
- Table of Contents
- Editor's Introduction: Faith and Justice
- Dirty Ethics for Bold Sinning
- A Palestinian Feminist Reading of the Book of Jonah
- The Forgotten Vice (Eerdmans, 2014)
- Review: Sin Boldly: Justifying Faith for Fragile and Broken Souls (Fortress Press, 2015)
- Justification and Justice: Luther on the Love of the Enemy as Criterion of Justice
June 2015: Surrogacy
- Table of Contents
- Editor's Introduction: Surrogacy
- Surrogate Mothers in India -- Are they empowered or exploited? A discussion from a feminist perspective
- Review: Power and Purpose: Paul Ramsey and Contemporary Christian Political Theology (Eerdmans, 2015)
- Dialectical Theology and Jacques Ellul: An Introductory Exposition (Fortress Press, 2014)
May 2015: End-of-Life Ethics II: European and American Perspectives
- Table of Contents
- Editor's Introduction: Dying Well - What Have Churches Said?
- European Protestant churches reflect on end-of-life issues
- Disruptive Christian Ethics: When Racism and Women’s Lives Matter (WJK Press, 2006)
- Commending Life's End to God: The ELCA Message on “End-of-Life Decisions” After Two Decades
- Diasporic Feminist Theology: Asia and Theopolitical Imagination (Fortress, 2014)
April 2015: End-of-Life Ethics
- Table of Contents
- Editor's Introduction: Doubt in the Pulpit: Resources for the Dark Night of the Soul
- Editor's Introduction: What does it mean to die well?
- End-of-Life Ethics: An Ecological Approach
- Luther, Linck, and Later Lutherans on Pastoral Care to the Sick and Dying
- Review: Is God Still at the Bedside? The Medical, Ethical, and Pastoral Issues of Death and Dying (Eerdmans, 2011)
- Review: Religious and Secular Medical Ethics: Points of Conflict (Georgetown University Press 2012)