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Our Calling in Education: A Draft Reviewed -- June 2006
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Brief
Comments on "Our Calling in Education: A First Draft of a Social
Statement"
Tom Christenson
Questions
of Purpose, Focus, Consistency, and Strength
James Mahler
Review of
"Our Calling in Education"
Gene Maier
A Review
of the Draft Social Statement on Education
Margaret Krych
Ethical Lessons Learned in Iraq
Martin L. Cook
The Public Witness of Good Works: Lutheran
Impulses for Political Ethics: Part II
Stefan Heuser |
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Lutherans in Public -- May 2006
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Lutherans
in Public—Threads from a Conversation
Ronald Duty
God,
Church, and Country: Berggrav's Leadership in the Norwegian
Resistance
Diane Yeager
The
Public Witness of Good Works: Lutheran Impulses for Political
Ethics
Stefan Heuser |
In Civil Rights
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The Civil Rights Movement of the 60s:
A Personal Perspective
Robert Benne
As a student at Midland College in the late 50s, I became aware of the
civil rights movement going on in the South. The national news
carried reports on sit-ins and demonstrations going on in a
number of southern states.
The Power of One…Community
Rudolf Featherstone
The recent home-going celebrations relevant to the life and
Christian witness of Mrs. Rosa Louise Parks makes available to
us a reflective moment to seriously ponder her impact upon us,
our progeny, and our own witness to the Christian gospel.
The Church in Socially Turbulent Times
William E. Lesher
As I reflect on it from the vantage point of forty years, the
Edmund Petters Bridge in not so sleepy Selma, Alabama marked a
turning point in my ministry, both in what was my second parish
and since.
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In Labor
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Do Not Steal: A Lutheran Vision of Practice of Economic Justice
Alexia Salvatierra
On January 27th, 2004, 200 clergy, lay leaders and workers
participated in a 450 mile pilgrimage to the home of Steve Burd,
the CEO of Safeway corporation, with the goal of appealing to
him as a Christian to settle a strike and lock-out affecting
70,000 Southern California grocery store workers. The
pilgrimage ultimately played a definitive and catalytic role in
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In the Early Church
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Placing Early Christianity as a Social Movement within its
Greco-Roman Context
Brad Kierkegard
Christianity has frequently been at the forefront of major
social movements, challenging accepted practices and inviting
social transformation. Christian beliefs were essential in such
dramatic movements as challenging
slavery, the political formation of the United States, and the
push for public education. |
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Preaching Politics
Where and how the church is called to be in the world is not
just the subject of much rumination from our best theologians,
it’s a primary concern of our nation’s founding documents. And,
of course, a question that drives much of the work of Journal of
Lutheran Ethics. |
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In
Search of the Common Good, Part II, “Classical Voices”
Roger Nutt
Review of
In Search of the Common Good
William Hill
Truth Is Stranger than Fiction:
The Da Vinci Code and Early Christianity
Brad Kierkegaard
Since its appearance in April of 2003, Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci
Code" has been a remarkable success. Although it
declares itself as a work of fiction, The Da Vinci Code
actually works very hard to blur the lines between fact and fiction.
My fundamental concern is that Christians seem to be so
poorly educated in the foundations of their tradition that many do
not understand the differences between Brown's fictionalizing and
the rich variety of early Christianity. |
Review of
"In Search of the Common Good," section 1, "Biblical Dimensions"
James Hanson
A Journey of Christian Human Responsibility: Harvey Cox's
Appropriation of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Jess O. Hale, Jr.
Lutheran theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s theology and life inspires
a multitude of responses, ranging from passionate opposition to a
dangerous thinker all the way to emphatic embrace of a saint. With
a large body of contemporary discussion partners included in those
responses, Bonhoeffer’s influence extends far beyond the theological
society that bears his name.
Shipshewana and the American Way of Fear
David Miller
Follow the fear. It will tell you what you need to know about
the challenge of Christian witness in these times. It also reveals
the wound that the incarnation of God in human flesh hungers to
heal—making us, our nation and world more truly human.
Theology in the Context of "World Christianity"
J. Paul Rajashekar
Sometime in the mid 1990’s, the center of gravity of Christianity
shifted from the Global North to the Global South. In a relative
span of one generation, the Christian faith has witnessed an
explosive growth in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
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