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Issue Index July/August 2015: Book Review

Journal of Lutheran Ethics
07/01/2015

Editor's Introduction

James Childs
07/01/2015

Beginning the Conversation

John Hoffmeyer
07/01/2015

A Second Perspective

Ekaterina Lomperis
07/01/2015

Theological Ethics and the "End of Doctrine"

James Childs
07/01/2015

The Author's Response

Christine Helmer
07/01/2015

November 2014 Issue Index: Poverty

Journal of Lutheran Ethics
11/01/2014

Draft on Social Message on Gender-Based Violence

Journal of Lutheran Ethics
11/01/2014

Clint Schnekloth, Mediating Faith: Faith Formation in a Trans-Media Era, Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2014, 126 pages, $29.00.

Ryan Cumming
10/01/2014

Peters, Rebecca Todd. Solidarity Ethics: Transformation in a Globalized World. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2014.

Laura Stivers
05/01/2014

April 2014 Issue Index

Journal of Lutheran Ethics
04/01/2014

Community of Moral Deliberation and an Emerging Responsibility Ethic

Roger Willer
04/01/2014

Church as Community of Moral Deliberation

Gary M. Simpson
04/01/2014

Congregational Moral Deliberation as Next Public Church

Per Anderson
04/01/2014

Editor's Introduction

Ryan P. Cumming
07/01/2013

Mental Illness: A Personal Journey

The Rev. Miriam Bunge
05/01/2013

Mental Illness and ELCA Rostered Leaders

Carol Schickel
05/01/2013

The Body of Christ and Mental Illness

The Rev. Cherlyne Beck
05/01/2013

Ethics of Inclusion – Statements on Mental Illness and Disability

The Rev. Kaari Reierson
05/01/2013

Caring for Creation at 20

The Rev. Roger Willer
03/01/2013

Anxiety, Atonement, and Vocation

The Rev. James M. Childs, Jr.
01/01/2013

Challenges Facing Bishops in light of Clergy Debt

Rick Foss
05/01/2012

When Government Defines "Religious" (Church): An Historical Example

John R. Stumme
03/01/2012

Contesting the Formative Power of Consumer Culture: Problems, Resources, Possibilities

Jeremy D. Posadas
01/01/2012

Young Adults in Global Mission: Life without Consumerism

Heidi Torgerson-Martinez
01/01/2012

Sources of Authority in the Lutheran Tradition: Back to the Future

Kathryn A. Kleinhans
09/01/2011

Carl E. Braaten’s Because of Christ: Memoirs of a Lutheran Theologian

Scott Grorud
07/01/2011

Response to Hearing the Cries: Faith and Criminal Justice

James Samuel Logan
05/01/2011

Response to Hearing the Cries: Faith and Criminal Justice

Kathryn Getek Soltis
05/01/2011

Response to Hearing the Cries: Faith and Criminal Justice

Bradley R. E. Wright
05/01/2011

Response to Hearing the Cries: Faith and Criminal Justice

Wayne N. Miller
05/01/2011

Response to Hearing the Cries: Faith and Criminal Justice

Ned Wisnefske
05/01/2011

Editor's Comments - Christ Made Sin and Criminal Justice

Victor Thasiah
03/01/2011

Response to Hearing the Cries: Faith and Criminal Justice

Lawrence R. Wohlrabe
03/01/2011

Response to Hearing the Cries: Faith and Criminal Justice

Carol Fredrich
03/01/2011

Response to Hearing the Cries: Faith and Criminal Justice

Mark Carlson
03/01/2011

Response to Hearing the Cries: Faith and Criminal Justice

Paul R. Hinlicky
03/01/2011

Response to Hearing the Cries: Faith and Criminal Justice

Amy Levad
03/01/2011

Hearing the Cries: Conversations with Luther and the USCCB

Jonathan Rothchild
03/01/2011

What Is a Conscience, Anyway?

Derek R. Nelson
12/01/2010

The Institutional Dilemma of Principled Dissent

Diane Yeager
12/01/2010

Response to John Stumme on Conscience

Thomas D. Pearson
12/01/2010

Editor's Introduction - A Matter of Conscience?

Victor Thasiah
11/01/2010

"Conscience-bound Beliefs" Rule and the "Conscience-bound-belief" Rule

John R. Stumme
11/01/2010

Law and Gospel: A Problem with Bound Conscience

The Rev. Lauren Ley
11/01/2010

"Neither Jew nor Greek, Male nor Female, Slave nor Free, Strong nor Weak": A Call to Friendship in Christ

Martha Ellen Stortz
11/01/2010

Swords, Plowshares and Guns in Church

The Rev. Paul Bailie
11/01/2010

Preaching on Social Issues

Shauna K. Hannan
10/01/2010

Theological Themes in Criminal Justice

Derek R. Nelson
09/01/2010

Midwives of Word and Sacrament

Jennifer Phelps Ollikainen
09/01/2010

The Return of Eschatological Economics1

The Rev. Clint Schnekloth
09/01/2010

Preaching the Law in the Christ-Haunted South

Julian Gordy
08/01/2010

Lessons on Giving Learned in Haiti

Patricia Hansen
07/01/2010

Addressing Hunger and Poverty Today

Nancy Arnison
06/01/2010

A Rejoinder to Robert Benne and Cathy A. Ammlung

Jon Pahl , Ph.D.
06/01/2010

The Core of Lutheran CORE: American Civil Religion and White Male Backlash

Jon Pahl , Ph.D.
05/01/2010

A Response to "The Core of Lutheran CORE"

Robert Benne
05/01/2010

Editor's Comments - You Can Handle the Truth

Victor Thasiah
04/01/2010

Moving beyond Hospitality

Miguel De La Torre
04/01/2010

Ethics without Political Science

Peter C. Meilaender
04/01/2010

Grounding Theologically the Call for Immigration Reform

M. Daniel Carroll R. (Rodas)
04/01/2010

Welcoming the Stranger Can Revive Tired Denominations

The Rev. Clint Schnekloth
02/01/2010

Practical Theology and Practicalities in Church Response to Emergencies

David R. Smedley
01/01/2010

Introduction to Ordaining Women

The Rev. Kaari Reierson
12/01/2009

Obispa — A New Paradigm in Bolivia

The Rev. Jessica Crist
12/01/2009

Front Lines

The Rev. Peter A. Speckhard
11/01/2009

New Wine, Old Wineskins: The Emerging Church, Ethics, and the ELCA

Robert D. Francis
10/01/2009

Joint Declaration on Justification: History Making or Precious Memory?

Lowell G. Almen
10/01/2009

What Happens Now? Ecumenical Agreements, Ecumenical Challenges

The Rev. Donald J. McCoid
10/01/2009

Reflections on the ELCA Churchwide Assembly and the Bible

Timothy J. Wengert
09/01/2009

Introduction to the August Issue

Ronald Duty
08/01/2009

Thinking Together about a Lutheran Ethic of Responsibility in the Age of Genetics

The Rev. Roger Willer
08/01/2009

Responses and Reflection for the Annual Gathering of Lutheran Ethicists

Maura Ryan
08/01/2009

Human Genetics: Threads from a Conversation

Ronald Duty
08/01/2009

Michael Root: A Second Opinion

Edward H. Schroeder
08/01/2009

Communion and Difference

Michael Root
07/01/2009

A Letter from the Faculty of LSTC

Klaus-Peter Adam
07/01/2009

Engaging the Process

Karri Whipple
07/01/2009

A Brief Case Study on Compromise

Laurie A. Jungling
07/01/2009

The ELCA: Too Big To Fail? . . . Or Too Wrong Not To?

Marc Kolden
07/01/2009

A Statement Worth Remembering

The Rev. Katy McCallum Sachse
06/01/2009

Comments on Human Sexuality Proposals Coming before the 2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly

The Rev. Eric C. Shafer
06/01/2009

Thank You, but No Thank You

The Rev. Clint Schnekloth
06/01/2009

Response to the Work of the Task Force for ELCA Studies on Sexuality in 2009

The Rev. Kaari Reierson
05/01/2009

"Human Sexuality: Gift and Trust"-Ramifications of a Relational Anthropology

Matthew J. Marohl
05/01/2009

Response: Proposed Statement on Human Sexuality

Kristin Johnston Largen
05/01/2009

A Human Rights-Based Approach to Advocacy: the Role of the Church

Emily Davila
02/01/2009

A Lutheran Approach to the Family Values: Focus on Fiducia

Martha Ellen Stortz
02/01/2009

Placing the Early Christian Family in its Roman Context

Brad Kirkegaard
02/01/2009

The Neuhaus Legacy and Lutherans

John R. Stumme
02/01/2009

A Response to Carl Braaten

Ryan P. Cumming
09/01/2008

Response to “Draft Social Statement on Human Sexuality”

Terence E. Fretheim
09/01/2008

The Draft Social Statement on Human Sexuality: How Not to Derive “ought” from “Is”

Dennis Bielfeldt
09/01/2008

The Use of Scripture in the "Draft Social Statement on Human Sexuality"

Walter F. Taylor
09/01/2008

Appreciation and Critique of the ELCA's Draft Social Statement on Human Sexuality

Paul R. Hinlicky
07/01/2008

Context Versus Principles: Still A Misplaced Debate

Christian Scharen
07/01/2008

Practicing What We Preach in Lutheran Sexual Ethics

Laurie A. Jungling
07/01/2008

Response to Draft Social Statement on Human Sexuality

Eric H. Crump
07/01/2008

Wrong Story

David L. Miller
07/01/2008

A Matter of Trust

The Rev. Kaari Reierson
04/01/2008

A Preliminary, Quick Review of the ELCA’s Draft Social Statement on Human Sexuality

The Rev. Eric C. Shafer
04/01/2008

Be Careful What You Ask for

The Rev. Daniel Ruen
04/01/2008

Meaningful Conversation

The Rev. Katy McCallum Sachse
04/01/2008

Please Don't Omit

The Rev. Clint Schnekloth
04/01/2008

An Agenda for the New Social Statement on Genetics

Paul T. Nelson
02/01/2008

Sufficient, Sustainable Lifespan for All: Responsible Biotechnology and ELCA Social Thought

Per Markus Anderson
01/01/2008

Spiritual Reinvention and the Andrew Greeley Principle

David L. Miller
12/01/2007

Implementing the ELCA Social Statement on Sufficient, Sustainable Livelihood for All

Scott E. Schul
09/01/2007

Jus Post Bellum—Seeking Peace in Iraq

Paul L. Gillis
08/01/2007

Children of God and Mental Illness

The Rev. Dr. Hollie M. Holt-Woehl
07/01/2007

A Radical Lutheran Response to My Reviewers

Mark C. Mattes
06/01/2007

Ethics and Health Care Research Planning

Kell Julliard
03/01/2007

Discussing Human Sexuality: Issue Editor’s Introduction

Ronald Duty
02/01/2007

"A Lutheran Social Policy Convoy"

Gary Simpson
11/01/2006

Conversations in Community

Mary D. Gaebler
11/01/2006

Encomium

Stewart W. Herman
11/01/2006

Giving Thanks for John Stumme

The Rev. Kaari Reierson
11/01/2006

John Stumme: A Critical Appraisal of His Work in Editing The Promise of Lutheran Ethics

The Rev. Michael Shahan
11/01/2006

John Stumme -- Lutheran Ethicist

The Rev. Larry Jorgenson
11/01/2006

John Stumme—The Hidden Years

The Rev. Randall Rottman
11/01/2006

Preaching and the Polis—Some Thoughts from the Pew

Franklin Sherman
11/01/2006

Transforming Polarization: A Distinctive Lutheran Witness in the World?

Karen L. Bloomquist
11/01/2006

Tribute to John Stumme on His Retirement

Robert Benne
11/01/2006

Challenges and the Challenge

The Rev. James M. Childs, Jr.
10/01/2006

On the Fifth Anniversary

The Rev. Kaari Reierson
10/01/2006

Will There Be a Lutheran Theological Ethic in the Next Generation?

Robert Benne
10/01/2006

Better than Cherry Pie!

Mark A. Peterson
09/01/2006

Pastoral Implications of Deus Caritas Est

The Rev. Michael Rothaar
09/01/2006

Lutheran Ethics and Immigration Reform

The Rev. John S. Kidd
07/01/2006

A Review of the Draft Social Statement on Education

The Rev. Dr. Margaret Krych
06/01/2006

Brief Comments on "Our Calling in Education: A First Draft of a Social Statement "

Tom Christenson
06/01/2006

"Our Calling in Education" as a Teaching Document for the Church

The Rev. Dr. Malcolm Bartsch
06/01/2006

Questions of Purpose, Focus, Consistency, and Strength

James Mahler
06/01/2006

Review of "Our Calling in Education"

Gene Maier, Ph.D.
06/01/2006

Eating Theology

The Rev. Clint Schnekloth
04/01/2006

JLE Portfolio: Sexuality: Law and Gospel

The Rev. Kaari Reierson
08/01/2005

Christian Eye for the Queer Guy

Michael Stoltzfus
08/01/2005

Living Together Faithfully in Community While Disagreeing

Dan Lee, Ph.D.
08/01/2005

Recognition, Not Blessing

Paul R. Hinlicky
08/01/2005

The Church as a Community of Moral Deliberation—A Time of Testing

John R. Stumme
08/01/2005

Why Now? Lutherans Join a Mainline Debate

Jon Pahl, Ph.D.
08/01/2005

JLE Portfolio: Conscience and Community

The Rev. Kaari Reierson
07/01/2005

Conscience-Bound or Conscience-Liberated: What's best for the ELCA?

Laurie A. Jungling
07/01/2005

Solus Christus or Sola Viscera? Scrutinizing Lutheran Appeals to Conscience

Martha Ellen Stortz
07/01/2005

Yet Another Chance to Be Lutheran

Larry L. Rasmussen
07/01/2005

Just Peace and Just Peacemaking - A Perspective

William Tuttle
06/01/2005

Alms and Advocacy: Lutheran Ministry with the Poor

The Rev. H. George Anderson
05/01/2005

If God Gives Them the Same Gifts, Who are We to Hinder God?

Walter M. Stuhr
05/01/2005

Bishop's Pastoral Letter on "End of Life Decisions"

The Rev. Edward R. Benoway
04/01/2005

A Little Less Paradox, Please: A Review of The Paradoxical Vision by Robert Benne

Thomas D. Kennedy
03/01/2005

A Review of The Paradoxical Vision: A Public Theology for the Twenty-first Century

Richard J. Perry
03/01/2005

Response to the Four Reviews of The Paradoxical Vision

Robert Benne
03/01/2005

A Response to the Task Force for ELCA Studies on Sexuality

Christian Scharen
01/01/2005

JLE Portfolio: On the Release of the Report and Recommendations of the Task Force for ELCA Studies on Sexuality

The Rev. Kaari Reierson
01/01/2005

No Red Synods/ Blue Synods in the ELCA: Attempting to Hold the Middle Ground

Kathryn A. Kleinhans
01/01/2005

Sex and "Church"

Dennis Bielfeldt
01/01/2005

A Call for Our Best Thinking

Steven Ullestad
12/01/2004

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