Social Issues and Citizenship

The Commission addresses the Lutheran view of church and state, racism, immigration, gambling, capital punishment, the care of creation and other topics.

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Reports

• Women and Military Service: A Lutheran Perspective
  2018
   
• Gender Identity Disorder or Gender Dysphoria in Christian Perspective
  2014
   
• Immigrants Among Us: A Lutheran Framework for Addressing Immigration Issues
  2012  |  Spanish  |  Purchase
   
• Together With All Creatures: Caring for God’s Living Earth (expanded version)
  2010  |  Purchase
   
• Together With All Creatures: Caring for God’s Living Earth (abbreviated version in color)
  2010  |  Purchase
   
• Response to “A Common Word Between Us and You” [Muslim/Christian Relations]
  2009  |  Background
   
• Defending Pre-Implantation Human Life in the Public Square
  2007
   
• Christian Faith and Human Beginnings: Christian Care and Pre-Implantation Human Life
  2005  |  Purchase
   
• Guidelines for Participation in Civic Events
  2004  |  Purchase
   
• What Child Is This? Marriage, Family, and Human Cloning
  2002  |  Purchase
   
• Faith Active in Love: Human Care in the Church’s Life
  1999  |  Purchase
   
• Gambling
  1996  |  Spanish
   
• Render Unto Caesar ... And Unto God: A Lutheran View of Church and State
  1995  |  Purchase
   
• Racism and the Church
  1994  |  Purchase
   
• Christian Care at Life’s End
  1993  |  Purchase
   
• 1 Corinthians 6:1-11: An Exegetical Study [Lawsuits]
  1991
   
• Divorce and Remarriage
  1987  |  Spanish   |  Purchase
   
• Abortion in Perspective
  1984  |  Purchase
   
• Report on Euthanasia with Guiding Principles
  1979
  Note: This report has been updated in the CTCR’s 1993 report Christian Care at Life’s End. An excerpted version of the 1979 report is provided in the appendix of the 1993 report.
   
• Report on Capital Punishment
  1976
   
• Report on Equal Rights Amendment
  1976
   
• Guidelines for Crucial Issues in Christian Citizenship
  1968
   
• Civil Obedience and Disobedience
  1966
   

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Opinions

• Opinion on Placing Adopted Children into Homosexual Contexts
  2006
   
• Opinion on Same-Sex Civil Unions
  2006

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Other Resources

• Why Are You Persecuting Me? A Christian Response to Hostility and Persecution
  2014
   
• The Bible and Christian Citizenship (Bible study)
  1996
   

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Spanish

• Los inmigrants entre nosotros: Un marco de referencia luterano para tartar los problemas relacionados con la immagración
  2011
   
• Los juegos de azar
  1975
   
• Divorcio y Nueveo Matrimonio
  1987
   

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