Moral issues and Christian responses

Content: 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 [and others] --
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.