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October 2013: When Did We See You, Lord?
- Table of Contents
- Editor's Introduction
- When Did We See You, Lord?
- On Stand Your Ground: A Theological and Ethical Reflection
- Excerpts from A Social Statement on “Freed In Christ: Race, Ethnicity And Culture.”
- Review: Empire of Sacrifice: The Religious Origins of American Violence, by Jon Pahl
- Review: The Sacredness of Human Life: Why an Ancient Biblical Vision Is Key to the World's Future, by David P. Gushee.
September 2013: Gender Justice
- Table of Contents
- Editor's Introduction: Gender Justice
- Of What Moral Value Is Vulnerability in the Conduct of Asymmetric Warfare?
- Mapping Patriarchal Patterns in Violence: Some Lessons for a Theology of Gender Justice
- The Prophet Amos and Palestinian Women
- Being Woman, Being Human, Doing Justice
- Pursuing Gender Justice in the German Protestant Church
- Review: Comparative Religious Ethics: Everyday Decisions for Our Everyday Lives
- Review: A Thicker Jesus: Incarnational Discipleship in a Secular Age
- Review: Theological Reflection for Human Flourishing: Pastoral Practice and Public Theology
- Gender and Justification within Empire: Toward a Christian Ethic of Gender Justice
July/August 2013: Criminal Justice - Annual Book Review Issue
- Table of Contents
- Editor's Introduction
- Review of Good Punishment? Christian Moral Practice and U.S. Imprisonment (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2008).
- A Review of Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, New York: New Press, 2010.
- Review of Compassionate Justice: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue with Two Gospel Parables on Law, Crime, and Restorative Justice. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2012.
- Response to Professor Levad’s Review of Good Punishment?
- Review of Alex Mikulich, Laurie Cassidy, and Margaret Pfeil, The Scandal of White Complicity in US Hyper-Incarceration: A Nonviolent Spirituality of White Resistance, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 219 pp.
May/June 2013: Mental Illness
- Table of Contents
- A Season of Significant Change/Issue Introduction
- Mental Illness: A Personal Journey
- Mental Illness and ELCA Rostered Leaders
- Mental Illness, The Military and the Church's Ministry
- The Body of Christ and Mental Illness
- Ethics of Inclusion – Statements on Mental Illness and Disability
- Triune Atonement: Christ’s Healing for Sinners, Victims, and the Whole of Creation
- Moral Issues and Christian Responses
March/April 2013: Environment
- Table of Contents
- Editor's Introduction: Environment
- American Lutherans Engage Ecological Theology: The First Chapter, 1962-2012, And Its Legacy
- Consumption, Ethics and the Environment: a Lutheran Perspective
- Repentance and Ecological Vocation
- Lutheran Theology and the Environment: Bonhoeffer, the Church, and the Climate Question
- Caring for Creation at 20
- Review: David J. Kundtz and Bernard S. Schlager's, Ministry Among God’s Queer Folk
- Review: Edward Adams', Parallel Lives of Jesus: A Guide to the Four Gospels
- Review: Larry Rasmussen's, Earth-honoring Faith: Religious Ethics in a New Key
January/February 2013: Hope and Anxiety
- Table of Contents
- Editor's Introduction: Hope and Anxiety
- Anxiety and Hope in the Lives of Baby Boomers: Beginning a Conversation
- Marriage and Anxiety: The Effects of Patriarchy on Women's Self-Worth
- Let Me Google That: A Millennial Reflects on Her Generation
- An Inquiry into New Year's Resolutions
- Martin Luther’s Basic Theological Writings (Fortress , 2012); Treatise on Good Works (Fortress, 2012)
- Review: Jesus: A New Understanding of God’s Son (Orbis, 2012)
- Review: Ethics of Hope (Fortress, 2012).
November/December 2012
- Table of Contents
- Editor's Introduction - What possibilities – and risks – do faith and science raise for one another?
- Review Essay: Fritz Oehlschlaeger, Procreative Ethics: Philosophical and Christian Approaches to Questions at the Beginning of Life
- A Discussion of Procreative Ethics: Philosophical and Christian Approaches to Questions at the Beginning of Life
- Guiding Genetic Intervention
- Responses to Comments on Procreative Ethics by Professors Hockenbery, Peterson, and Hinlicky
- The Question Concerning Technology and Religion
- Technology, Lutheranism, and the Proclamation
- Technology as Tool and as World: Response to “The Question Concerning Technology and Religion”
- Review: Transformative Lutheran Theologies: Feminist, Womanist, and Mujerista Perspectives (Fortress, 2010)
- The Advent Wisdom Project
- Review: Transformative Lutheran Theologies: Feminist, Womanist, and Mujerista Perspectives (Fortress Press, 2010)
September 2012: Building Trust
- Table of Contents
- Editor's Introduction - Building Trust
- Religionists versus Scientists: Why We Need to Build Cultures of Trust
- Response to Building Cultures of Trust, by Martin E. Marty
- Science and Religion as Conversation toward a Common Good: The Recent Work of Martin Marty
- Virtually There: Martin Marty, Cyberspace, and Cultures of Trust in the 21st Century
- The Moral Weight of Trust
- Trust: A Selected Bibliography
- Review of James H. Cone’s The Cross and the Lynching Tree
July 2012: Book Review Issue
- Table of Contents
- Editor's Introduction - Annual Book Review Issue
- Review of William F. May's, Testing the National Covenant: Fears and Appetites in American Politics
- Review of Burkee's Power, Politics, and the Missouri Synod: A Conflict that Changed American Christianity.
- Review of Taylor's, Religion, Politics, and the Christian Right: Post-9/11 Powers and American Empire
- Testing the National Covenant: A Covenantal Political Ethic for Lutherans?
- A Lutheran Covenantal Political Ethic?
- Resources for the struggle against fear and appetite
- Review of Cavanaugh's, Migrations of the Holy: God, State and the Political Meaning of the Church
- The Ethics of Missional Church
May 2012: Personal Finance
- Table of Contents
- Editor's Introduction - The Ethics of Personal Finance
- Challenges Facing Bishops in light of Clergy Debt
- American Lutheran pastors and their Finances
- Carpe Tithem: Tithing as Invigorative in the Life of Faith
- Faith and Finance: A solo journey into solidarity
- Seminarian Debt: Ethical Challenges