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             October 2006:  Celebrating Five Years of JLE On-line
 
                            Challenges to Lutheran Ethics

James Childs:

Challenges and the Challenge

Stewart W. Herman:

Three Challenges to Lutheran Ethics

Ulrik Becker Nissen:

Stem Cell Research - Is there a
Lutheran Ethical Position?
 

Robert Benne:

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

Kaari Reierson:

On the Fifth Anniversary

Kaari Reierson:

In Gratitude

David L. Miller:

Failures of Imagination
Lutherans on Deus Caritas Est II -- September 2006
Introduction to Reflections on Deus Caritas
Est 

John Stumme
 
Love Grows through Love: Exploring 
a Shared Catholic-Lutheran History

William Buckley
 
Eros in Benedict and Luther 
Mary D. Gaebler
 
Pastoral Implications of Deus Caritas Est
Michael Rothaar
 
Better than Cherry Pie!
Mark Peterson
 
Diving Down: Vigilance and Discernment 
of Deus Caritas Est

Michael Trice
 
Lutherans on Deus Caritas Est -- August 2006
Introduction to Lutherans on Deus Caritas Est
John Stumme
 
  Delivering the Goods: A Radical Lutheran Response to Deus Caritas Est
Mark Mattes
 
  A Lutheran Encyclical: Benedict's Deus Caritas Est
Paul Hinlicky
 
Knowing What Cosmos You're In 
Kelly Denton-Borhaug
 
One Bread, One Body 
Anne Edison-Swift
 
Economy of Grace -- July 2006
Reviews of "Economy of Grace"
Kathryn Tanner

Reviews by:
Steven Livingston, Michael Shahan,
Luke Froeb, and Robert Brittingham
The Public Witness of Good Works: Lutheran Impulses for Political Ethics Part III
(Part I and Part II are also available.)
by Stefan Heuser
 
Immigration -- July 2006
Immigration
John Kidd, Chris Chiappari and Mark Granquist
Warrior Ethics 101: Everything We Need to Know We Learned in Sunday School David Miller

Our Calling in Education: A Draft Reviewed -- June 2006

 
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


In Search of the Common Good, Part II, “Classical Voices”
Roger Nutt
 
Review of In Search of the Common Good
William Hill
 
Review of "In Search of the Common Good," section 1, "Biblical Dimensions"
James Hanson
Lutherans in Public -- May 2006






 

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

 

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.