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July/August 2015: Book Review Issue

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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)

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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)

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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)

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Welcome Rev. Dr. Santos
The Despair of the Called
The Absence of God as Opportunity for Personal and Social Transformation
Beyond Apathy: A Theology for Bystanders (Fortress Press, 2015)
By the Rivers of Babylon: Blueprint for a Church in Exile (Fortress Press, 2013)

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Editor's Introduction: Environmental Ethics
Ecological Restoration and Scenes of Grace
From “Church Property” to “Earth-Community”: Ethical Actions for Restoring Land
Restored to Earth: Christianity, Environmental Ethics, and Ecological Restoration (Georgetown University Press, 2013)
The Eloquence of Grace: Joseph Sittler and the Preaching Life (Cascade, 2012)

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Editor's Introduction: Globalization and Theological Education
Theological Education in an Era of Globalization: Some Critical Issues
Glocal Theological Education Issues and Concerns From One Person’s Point of View
Liberating Lutheran Theology: Freedom for Justice and Solidarity with Others in a Global Context (Fortress Press, 2011)

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Editor's Introduction
Might the Lutheran Paul Aim to Keep the Law?
Response to “Might the Lutheran Paul Aim to Keep the Law?” by Jon C. Olson
The Ethics of Death: Religious and Philosophical Perspectives in Dialogue (Fortress Press, 2014)

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Editor's Introduction: Poverty
Spirituality, Religion, and the Millennial Generation of Nones
Millennials: Getting Beyond Selfies, @, and #
Mediating Faith: Faith Formation in a Trans-Media Era (Fortress Press, 2014)
“Poor People” as Other: Changing the Subject to “our” Challenges of and Living with Poverty
A Black Lutheran Perspective on Poverty and Plenty
By Bread Alone: The Bible through the Eyes of the Hungry (Fortress Press, 2014)
Rupturing Eschatology: Divine Glory and the Silence of the Cross (Fortress Press, 2014)
Timeless Duties towards the Hungry Poor