{"id":77,"date":"2019-04-01T18:58:13","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T18:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learn.elca.org\/jle\/?p=77"},"modified":"2020-10-28T20:02:22","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T20:02:22","slug":"editors-introduction-not-an-april-fools-issue-growing-income-inequality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learn.elca.org\/jle\/editors-introduction-not-an-april-fools-issue-growing-income-inequality\/","title":{"rendered":"Editor&#8217;s Introduction: Not an April Fool\u2019s Issue: Growing Income Inequality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[1] This issue of the <em>Journal of Lutheran Ethics<\/em> (JLE) may seem like an April Fool\u2019s prank.\u00a0 Yes, regular readers will note this was supposed to be the March\/April issue, not an April\/May.\u00a0 What happened to March?\u00a0 An April Fool\u2019s prank? And again, isn\u2019t Carmelo Santos the JLE editor?\u00a0 Is he masquerading as some \u201cfake editor\u201d Roger Willer? No, this issue is not a prank and the focused theme of growing income and wealth inequality is certainly no joking matter.\u00a0 So, what\u2019s going on?<\/p>\n<p>[2] This issue marks transitions.\u00a0 There is a transition to a new publication schedule, each of the six bimonthly JLE issues will now be posted on or near the 1<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0of the even numbered months rather than on the odd numbered ones.\u00a0 I will not weary readers explaining the \u201cback-end\u201d reasons for this switch but will draw your attention to the more important transition, that of editorship.<\/p>\n<p>[3] Rev. Dr. Carmelo Santos has served JLE faithfully the past several years while figuratively cooking away as full-time pastor, adjunct professor at Georgetown University, community activist, prophetic goad to this church, thinker and writer on brain and theology, parent, husband, karate practitioner and\u2026well it should be evident why he has needed to step down.<\/p>\n<p>[4] Rev. Dr. Santos cares deeply for JLE and its mission on behalf of the ELCA and the church catholic.\u00a0 Like a dedicated and skilled chef working at breakneck speed he has kept all his roles simmering while improving the JLE menu of moral reflection.\u00a0 He has cooked up greater diversity of writers and topics and a more international zing to enrich this church\u2019s moral deliberation.\u00a0 JLE and its readers owe this head chef a debt of gratitude for his work during these volatile years.\u00a0 I know I join many, many others in wishing him well and a bit more sanity as he steps aside.<\/p>\n<p>[5]\u00a0As interim editor, a role I have stepped into on occasion in the past, \u00a0I am happy to report that the search for a new editor is now well underway with a strong repository of applicants.\u00a0 As publisher on behalf of the Theological Discernment Team, I expect to be able to announce the new editor in June\u2019s issue.<\/p>\n<p>[6] Besides a common interim editor, JLE\u2019s April and June issues share a common theme that receives far too little social, moral and theological attention given its significance: growing income and wealth inequality in contemporary society. The top .1% of income earners exceed by almost 200 times the income of the bottom 90%.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.elca.org\/JLE\/Articles\/1258#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\"><sup>1<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0 Moreover, the trendlines are moving towards greater inequality. The share of income taken by the top 1% has doubled\u2014from 10% to 22%&#8211;during the past thirty-five years, all while one-quarter of American workers make less than the minimum wage.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.elca.org\/JLE\/Articles\/1258#_ftn2\" name=\"_ftnref2\"><sup>2<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0 The import is vexing; it is clear that widening economic inequality destabilizes the basic egalitarian presuppositions of a democracy, for it embeds and reinforces other dimensions of social inequality.<\/p>\n<p>[7]\u00a0What should Lutherans do and say? How do we confront the Lutheran tradition, which from the 16<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0century has its own ambiguous history about such matters? While Luther denounced the greed of merchants and abuses by nobles, he himself asserted the necessity of social inequality (Luther\u2019s Works 51:348, 26:97-98, 356). For Luther, social hierarchy and attendant inequality were desirable in earthly affairs, even while he asserted the radical egalitarianism of the Kingdom of God (24:155-6; see also his discussion of Galatians 2:6 for how he embraces this paradox [26:92-98])<\/p>\n<p>[8] What to do with this legacy? How to speak and act today? The Lutheran Ethicist Network faced these matters at its annual Gathering January 2019 by inviting presentations from three contributors to the 2016 book\u00a0<em>The Forgotten Luther: Reclaiming the Social-Economic Dimension of the Reformation.\u00a0<\/em>Drs. Jon Pahl, Ryan Cumming, and Cynthia Moe-Lobeda were asked to extend their thinking toward what kind of retrieval of the Lutheran tradition is appropriate to address present trends.\u00a0 Three responses from young scholars and ample conversation among participants followed. Two sets are posted this issue, while June\u2019s issue will highlight the presentation by Dr. Moe-Lobeda and response by Dr. Willa Lengyel.<\/p>\n<p>[9] In this issue Dr. Jon Pahl and Dr. Ryan Cumming read the tradition with fresh eyes. Dr. Pahl brings together a hefty and impressive array of sources, concepts, historical references, and disciplines to reconsider for our economic perspective the Lutheran heritage\u2019s insistence that matter matters to God.\u00a0 Dr. Pahl\u2019s essay is unusually long for this journal but is an education in itself and an important reflection at the intersection of inequality and the Lutheran tradition.\u00a0 Newly minted Dr. Justin Nickel asks pertinent questions about some of\u00a0Pahl\u2019s\u00a0claims, questions that invite the reader more deeply into critical reflection.<\/p>\n<p>[10] The 2<sup>nd<\/sup>\u00a0essay by Dr. Cumming is standard length for JLE but as intriguing. He insists, with many other Lutheran theologians, that every structure of life must be examined as to whether it measures up to God\u2019s intention that it serve the common good. He exercises, then, a kind of thought experiment rooted in the Lutheran insistence on grace, applying that theological tool to the very economic theory that has fostered economic inequality. PhD. candidate Donna\u00a0Matteis\u00a0responds with a challenge that pushes the conversation about economics to issues of power and marginalization.<\/p>\n<p>[11] Growing income equality, an editor search, a shift in publication schedule, none of these are April 1st pranks, and each demonstrate the vitality of the Journal of Lutheran Ethics in its mission.\u00a0 As evident in the writings this month, that mission is to further the Lutheran tradition of addressing social issues theologically.\u00a0 On this April 1<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0that means engaging resources from history, the Lutheran tradition, scripture, economics and ethics.<\/p>\n<p>NOTES:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elca.org\/JLE\/Articles\/1258#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\"><sup>1<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/inequality.org\/facts\/income-inequality\/\">https:\/\/inequality.org\/facts\/income-inequality\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elca.org\/JLE\/Articles\/1258#_ftnref2\" name=\"_ftn2\"><sup>2<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebalance.com\/income-inequality-in-america-3306190\">https:\/\/www.thebalance.com\/income-inequality-in-america-3306190<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This issue of the Journal of Lutheran Ethics (JLE) may seem like an April Fool\u2019s prank.  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