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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).
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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
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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
March 2012: The Challenges of Asymmetrical War to Just War Theory: Conversations between Ethicists and Military Chaplains
- Table of Contents
- Editor's Introduction - The Challenges of Asymmetrical War to Just War Theory: Conversations between Ethicists and Military Chaplains
- Biblical / Ethical Reflections on the Enspirited Life
- The Silence of Easter
- Facing Ambiguity in Warfare
- The Rule of Distinction and the Military Response to Global Terrorism
- A New Language for Just War
- Notes from the Front Lines: Reporting on the 2012 Lutheran Ethicists Gathering
- Women and Theological Writing During the Reformation
- When Government Defines "Religious" (Church): An Historical Example
- A review of Bonhoeffer Pastor, Prophet, Martyr, Spy by Eric Metaxas
January 2012: Wise as Serpents, Innocent as Doves: Forming Counter-Cultural Christians in an Age of Consumer Media / Advertising
- Table of Contents
- Editor's Introduction - Wise as Serpents, Innocent as Doves: Forming Counter-Cultural Christians in an Age of Consumer Media / Advertising
- Young Adults in Global Mission: Life without Consumerism
- Identity in Youth — Answers from a Therapist
- Commodifying the Child: a historical look at the idolatry of the market and the Truth we have to tell
- Consumer Families, Virtue and the Common Good
- Contesting the Formative Power of Consumer Culture: Problems, Resources, Possibilities
- Behind the Online Curtain: Online Advertising, Teens and the Christian Form
- Consumerism on Campus: A Lutheran Response
- Shop the Fear Away, Girls! Man Up, Boys!
- Adolescent Identity in the midst of Malls and Amazon.com — living in an alternative economy
- Reality Bites Back: We Can Fight Back
- Getting Your Meta On
November 2011
- Table of Contents
- Questions Amidst the Silence: One Canadian’s Ethical Reflections on September 11th
- Derek R. Nelson's What's Wrong with Sin? Sin in Individual and Social Perspective from Schleiermacher to Theologies of Liberation
- Editor's Introduction
- Advent, Virtue Ethics, and the Telological Suspension of the Ethical
- Martin Luther's Theology: A Contemporary Interpretation by Oswald Bayer, reviewed by Dennis Bielfeldt
- Martin Luther's Theology: A Contemporary Interpretation by Oswald Bayer, reviewed by Sarah Hinlicky Wilson
- The Americanization of American Lutheranism: Democratization of Authority and the Ordination of Women, Part II
- Martin Luther's Theology: A Contemporary Interpretation by Oswald Bayer, reviewed by Paul Sponheim
- Justice As a Memorial
- Interview with William Schweiker
- Budrus: Considering Alternative Narratives
October 2011
- Table of Contents
- There will be an answer...
- How It Is and How It Might Have Been Otherwise
- Editor's Comments - Authority in the Church, Part II
- Rethinking Authority in the Church Today
- The Americanization of American Lutheranism: Democratization of Authority and the Ordination of Women, Part I
- Editor's Comments - Authority in the Church
- Publisher's Commentary - JLE Publishes On
- Sources of Authority in the Lutheran Tradition: Back to the Future
- Sources of Authority according to the Lutheran Confessions
- Review of Peter Leithart's, Defending Constantine: The Twilight of an Empire and the Dawn of Christendom
- Response to Timothy J. Furry
- Review of Good and Bad Ways of Thinking About Religion and Politics by Robert Benne