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Pacifism, Just War and the Limits of Ethics
Palestine and Israel, 1947-2002
Palestinians, Christian Zionists and the Good News Gospel
Partnership with Nature According to the Scriptures: Beyond the Theology of Stewardship
The Passion According to Mel
Pastoral Care with Couples Living Together Outside of Marriage: A Study Paper of The American Lutheran Church
Pastoral Counsel concerning The Passion
Pastoral Counseling and the Alcoholic: A Study Paper of the Lutheran Church in America, by Conrad L. Bergendoff, M.A., M.Div.
Pastoral Implications of Deus Caritas Est
Patriotism and Attachment to Place: A Commentary on Joseph Sittler' "The Grace Note," April 1951
Peace and Politics: A Social Statement of the Lutheran Church in America
Peace, Justice, and Human Rights, A Statement of The American Lutheran Church (1972)
Peace-Making as One Response to Terrorist Violence
Penultimate Answers: Lutheran Theology, Politics, and Dissent
Perspective of African American Youth Leadership in the Lutheran Church
A Perspective on the Immigration Debate
Placing Early Christianity as a Social Movement within its Greco-Roman Context
Placing the Early Christian Family in its Roman Context
Plant Closings: A Study Paper of the Lutheran Church in America, by William E. Diehl
Please Don't Omit
The Political Use of Law
Politics in the Pulpit
The Politics of Fear in a Season of Campaigning
Pornography, A Series of Statements of the American Lutheran Church and an analysis by ALC Office of Church in Society (1974, 1985)
A Postscript: Using Ethical Principles to Guide Decision-Making about Energy Use
Poverty: A Social Statement of the Lutheran Church in America
The Power of One…Community
Practicing Faith and Practicing Law
Practicing What We Preach in Lutheran Sexual Ethics
Prayer and Bible Reading in Public Schools: A Social Statement of the Lutheran Church in America
Preaching and Politics at All Saints Episcopal Church, Pasadena, California
Preaching and the Polis—Some Thoughts from the Pew
Preaching in the "Gate of Fire"
Preaching Justice: The Ethical Vocation of Word and Sacrament Ministry
A Preface to Pastoral Care after Easter
Preface to Social Pronouncements of the Augustana Lutheran Church, 1937-1962
A Preface to The Church in the Corporate World
Preface to the November 2004 Issue: The Political Election
A Preliminary, Quick Review of the ELCA’s Draft Social Statement on Human Sexuality
Presentation to the Association of Teaching Theologians
Prison Ministry
The Problem of Total War in Jewish, Christian and Muslim Traditions
Proclaim Jesus Christ: Lutheran Response to Crisis
Proleptic Ethics vs. Stop Sign Ethics: Theology and the Future of Genetics
Public Schools and Religious Practices, A Series of Statements of the American Lutheran Church (1971, 1980, 1984)
The Public Witness of Good Works: Lutheran Impulses for Political Ethics
The Public Witness of Good Works: Lutheran Impulses for Political Ethics: Part II
The Public Witness of Good Works: Lutheran Impulses for Political Ethics: Part III
Puckering up for Postmodern Kissing: Civil Society and the Lutheran Entwinement of Just Peace/Just War
Pursuing God with U2: An Adult Study
Questions Amidst the Silence: One Canadian’s Ethical Reflections on September 11th
Questions of Purpose, Focus, Consistency, and Strength
"Keeping it Real" While Staying Out of the "Loony Bin": Social Ethics for Healthcare Systems (Listening to Women of Color with Breast Cancer: Insights for U.S. Healthcare)
"Render unto Caeser"
The "We" is Greater than the "I"
Race Relations: A Social Statement of the Lutheran Church in America
Racial Disparities in the American Criminal Justice System
Racism in the Church, A Statement of the American Lutheran Church (1974)
Rape, A Meditation on 2 Samuel 13
Readings from the Underside of Selfhood: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Spiritual Formation
Reclaiming The Natural Law for Theological Ethics
Recognition, Not Blessing
Rediscovering the Dignity and Complexity of Children: Resources from the Christian Tradition
Reflect Critically on America's Way of Fighting War
Reflections on "Caring for Creation"
Reflections on Martin Luther and Childhood Education
Reflections on September 11
Reflections on the Economic Downturn
Reflections on the ELCA Churchwide Assembly and the Bible
Reflections on the Environmental Task Force (1991-93), The Caring for Creation Statement, and Subsequent Events
Reflections on the War in Iraq
Reflections on U.S. foreign policy from a British conservative pacifist living in Columbus, Ohio
Reflections on What It Means to Be a Tax Exempt Organization
Religion and Politics – One More Time
Religion in Sport
The Religion of Candidates: Does it Matter?
Religious Beliefs and Healthcare Systems
Religious Issues in American Immigration
Religious Liberty in the United States: A Social Statement of the Lutheran Church in America
Rendering to Caesar and to God: Paying Taxes in the Roman World
A Report from the Front Lines: Conversations on Public Theology
A Report from the Front Lines: Conversations on Public Theology
Report from the WCC/WB/IMF Encounters
A Report on the Outcomes of the Consultation: The Churches and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Marking 60 Years and Enhancing the Future
Response: Proposed Statement on Human Sexuality
A Response to Carl Braaten
Response to “Draft Social Statement on Human Sexuality”
Response to Draft Social Statement on Human Sexuality
Response to Mark Noll’s Editorial, "None of the Above: Why I Won’t Vote for President"
Response to "None of the Above"
Response to Pfrimmer -- "The Faith Basis for 60 Years of Human Rights Work by Churches"
Response to Robert Benne on Civil Religion
Response to the June JLE on “The Shock Doctrine”
Response to the Respondents to my Civil Religion Argument
Response to the Study prepared by the Commission on International Affairs in the Church of Norway Council on Ecumenical and International Relations, January 2001
A Response to the Task Force for ELCA Studies on Sexuality
Response to the Work of the Task Force for ELCA Studies on Sexuality in 2009
Responses and Reflection for the Annual Gathering of Lutheran Ethicists
Responses to Bob Benne on Civil Religion
Restorative Justice vs. Retributive Justice
Restoring Forgiving Power
Restoring Joy When Gladness of Marriage Becomes Overcast
Resurrection and Addiction: A New Paradigm
Re-Thinking Adolescent Sexual Ethics: A Social Justice Obligation to Adolescent Sexual Health
Rethinking the Iraq War
Retributive Justice: A Penitential Pedagogy
A Return to the Garden
A Review by Dr. Martha Stortz
A Review "from the Field"
A Review of "Caring for Health: Our Shared Endeavor"
Review of "Our Calling in Education"
A Review of the Draft Social Statement on Education
Review of The Passion of the Christ
Review of The Passion of the Christ
Revisiting the Question of the Muslim Deity
The Right to Property and Daily Bread: Thinking with Luther about Human Economic Rights
Rooting, Reforming, Restoring: A Framework for Justice in Rwanda
Rumors of War: The Need for a Lutheran Voice
The Sacrificing of Children: A Meditation/Sermon on Judges 11
Sanctuary: A Question for the Church: A Study Paper of the Lutheran Church in America
Scarred Epistemologies: What a Theology of the Cross Has to Say about the Gay Marriage Ban
The Scope of Our Democracy: A Response to Mark Noll
Self Defense?
Sent into the World, A Statement of The American Lutheran Church (1970)
A Sermon from September 16, 2001
Servant Leadership: Character and the Ethics of Business
Sex and "Church"
Sex, Marriage, and Family: A Clarifying Convention Minute of the Lutheran Church in America
Sexual Intimacy, Spiritual Belonging, and Christian Theology
Sexuality: Some Common Convictions, A Message on
Shareholder Advocacy
Sharing as a Central Practice in the Economy of God
Shelf-Life of a Vision: The 1993 Social Statement on Caring for Creation
Shipshewana and the American Way of Fear
Should Churches Be Tax-Exempt?
Should We Forgive Osama bin Laden and Members of Al-Qaida?
Should We Invade Iraq?
Singing “The Hymn of All Creation”
Skull Valley: Nuclear Waste, Tribal Sovereignty, and Environmental Racism
Social Justice for Undocumented Immigrants
Social Ministry: Biblical and Theological Perspectives: A Study Paper of the Lutheran Church in America
Social Security: Some Ethical Issues
Solidarity
Solus Christus or Sola Viscera? Scrutinizing Lutheran Appeals to Conscience
Some Reflections on the Theology of Reconciliation
Some remarks on the stem-cell debate from a Lutheran theologian in Germany
Some Thoughts on U.S. Responsibility in Iraq
SOS: A Call to Affirmation of Human Values, A Statement of the American Lutheran Church (1972)
Spiritual Reinvention and the Andrew Greeley Principle
A Spoke in the Wheel
Statement on Apparent Terrorist Attacks by the Presiding Bishop of the ELCA
A Statement Worth Remembering
Stem Cell Research – Is There a Lutheran Ethical Position?
A Step Into the Private Lives of Stem Cells
A Study Guide for Parishioners and Classes viewing Hotel Rwanda
Sufficient, Sustainable Lifespan for All: Responsible Biotechnology and ELCA Social Thought
Suggested Resources
Suicide Prevention, A Message on
Sunday Closing Laws, A Statement of The American Lutheran Church in America (1964)
Surrogate Motherhood
Sustainability and the Chlorine Industry: A Report on Dialogue with a Case Study
Sustainable Energy Futures: Economic and Ecological Ramifications of U.S. Energy Policy
Sweden, Stem Cell Research and Ethics: Two Weaknesses of the Debate