Moral issues and Christian responses

Introduction: A primer on doing ethics Part 1. What makes ethics Christian? Biblical authority / Walter Brueggemann The Bible in transit / Phyllis Trible A death to celebrate? : the just-war tradition and the killing of Osama Bin Laden / Ronald Osborn How I learned to stop worrying and love the brain / David A. Hogue "Wading through many sorrows" : toward a theology of suffering in Womanist perspective / M. Shawn Copeland The eclipse of love for God / Edward Collins Vacek Mujerista discourse : a platform for Latinas' subjugated knowledge / Ada María Isasi-Díaz "Rights and wrongs" : an interview with Nicholas Wolterstorff The unholy trinity of consumerism / Skye Jethani Imitating God : nickel mines, forgiveness, and Yoder / Donald B. Kraybill Blame versus forgiveness / John Kekes Lessons in mercy : justice and reconciliation in the aftermath of atrocities / Daniel Philpott Letting go : the final miracle of forgiveness / Miroslav Volf Part 2. Sexual ethics. The body's grace / Rowan Williams Marriage prep and double standards : the hookup culture's damaging effects / Kari-Shane Davis Zimmerman Good sex : its meaning and morals / Dennis Hollinger Love your enemy : sex, power, and Christain ethics / Karen Lebacqz Sexual slavery on Main Street / Elissa Cooper A betrothal proposal / Michael G. Lawler and Gail S. Risch Domestic abuse / Judith Ewing No good divorce : the children's perspective : an interview with Elizabeth Marquardt What God has joined / David Instone-Brewer Role play / Patti Ricotta Advice and consent : monogamy in the age of Dan Savage / Benjamin J. Dueholm Part 3. Prejudice and discrimination. Awaiting the redemption of our bodies / Richard B. Hays Heterosexism and the interpretation of Romans 1:18-32 / Dale B. Martin Bearing better witness / Ron Sider Blessing same-sex marriages / Patricia Beattie Jung Obama and race in America : what's changed? / Gerald Early ... [et al.] Race matters / Cornel West Whiteness : the structure of institutional racism / Elaine A. Robinson Part 4. Issues of national and global priority. Imagining the immigrant : why legality must give way to humanity / John J. Savant Creating a sacred space : an Iglesia evangélica response to global homelessness / Loida I. Martell-Otero A Judeo-Christian approach to "comprehensive" immigration reform / Carol M. Swain Poisoning the well : a review of Mark Hertsgaard's Hot : living through the next 50 years on earth / Wen Stephenson Toward an ethic of ecojustice / James B. Martin-Schramm The challenge of biocentrism / Thomas Sieger Derr An earth-honoring faith / Larry Rasmussen When "knowledge" is simply "all wet" and "ignorance is bliss"! : Christian environmental ethics meets science in Louisiana's wetlands / Dawn M. Nothwehr

Part 5. Economic justice. Pay attention to the birds / Ched Myers

Just a little bit more : greed and the malling of our souls / Robert C. Roberts

Nickel and dimed : a review of Bethany Moreton's To serve God and Wal-Mart : the making of Christian free enterprise / Robert Frank

When generosity is not enough / Ellen T. Charry

Fighting poverty to build peace / Howard J. Hubbard

Just deserts : beyond the free market / Kent A. Van Til

When is self-interest moral? : a gap in Catholic social teaching / Daniel K. Finn

Christian theology and development / Gnana Robinson

Shopping for justice : the trouble with good intentions / Charles M. North and Bob Smietana

The dread cancer of stinginess / John Rowell

Still hungry : a review of Dambisa Moyo's Dead aid : a better way for Africa / Sandra F. Joireman

Part 6. Issues of life and death. Theology and morality of procreative choice / Beverly Wildung Harrison with Shirley Cloyes

Abortion and the sexual agenda / Sidney Callahan

Fetal status : sources and implications / Thomas A. Shannon

What actually works? : the right supports can reduce abortion rates / Glen Stassen

Still dying badly : a Christian critique / Allen Verhey

Assisted suicide : do we own our bodies? /Jarmo Tarkki

The case for physician-assisted suicide? / James F. Keenan

A horrific crime : but is execution the answer? / Cathleen Kaveny

Catholicism and capital punishment / Cardinal Avery Dulles

Crime and sacrifice / Tobias Winright

Did 9/11 make us morally "better"? / Miroslav Volf

When the shooting stops : criteria for a just peace / Mark J. Allman and Tobias L. Winright

Courageous nonviolence / Ron Sider

Against the new Utopianism / Jean Bethke Elshtain.