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Lloyd Steffen
Re-Imaging Death and Dying: Global Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Edited and introduction, Dennis R. Cooley and Lloyd Steffen, eds.(Oxford: Interdisciplinary Press, 2009). [e-book available at: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/publishing/id-press/ebooks/re-imaging-death-and-dying)
"The Divine Foetus: Abortion and Absolute Innocence," in Pondering Death: Interdisciplinary Reflections and Perspectives, ed.Asa Kasher (Amsterdam: Rodopi Press, 2012): in press.
"The Ethics of Physician Assisted Suicide," in Pondering Death: Interdisciplinary Reflections and Perspectives, ed.Asa Kasher (Amsterdam: Rodopi Press, 2012): in press.
“Stop the Killing: The Protections of ‘Just War’ on Non-Combatants,”in Unequal before Death, ed. Christina Staudt and Marcelline Block (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2012): 204-12.
“The Ethical Complexity of Abraham Lincoln: Is There Something for Religious Ethicists to Learn?”, Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 31.2: 74-99.
“Human Rights: Virtue’s Last Resort?”, Global Virtue Ethics Review, Vol. 6, no. 3: 83-116.
“Moral Death,” forthcoming in New Perspectives on the End of Life: Essays on Care and the Intimacy of Dying, eds. Lloyd Steffen and Nate Hinerman, Rodopi Press, 2011 (in press).
“Moral Death: Preliminary Considerations,” in Exploring Issues of Care, Dying and the End of Life, eds. Sue Steele & Glenys Caswell (Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2011): 3-10. (Proceedings from 7th Global Death and Dying Conference, Prague: November 2010.)
“The Ethics of Patient Non-Treatment,” Re-Imaging Death and Dying: Global Interdisciplinary Perspectives, eds., Dennis R. Cooley and Lloyd Steffen (Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2009): 211-224.
"Warfare Deaths: Ethical and Religious Understanding in the American Context," Religion, Death and Dying [Three Volumes], Volume 2: Special Issues, Lucy Bregman, ed. (Santa Barbara: Prager, 2009): 183-208. "Nonviolence as Ethical Spirituality: The Case of the Dalai Lama," Prajña Vihar: Journal of Philosophy and Religion,, vol 10, no. 1-2, (January-December 2009): 112-135.
"Casting the First Stone: Capital Punishment is Still a Moral Problem,"Viewpoints: Readings Worth Thinking and Writing About, 7th edition, ed. W. Royce Adams, (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2009): 436-441.
"What Religion Contributes to an Environmental Ethic," Environmental Ethics, Vol. 29 (Summer 2007): 193-208. "Gandhi's Nonviolent Resistance: A Justified Use of Force?", Journal of Philosophy and the Contemporary World 15: 1 (June 2008): 68-80. "The Death of Innocents: Noncombatant Immunity v. the Divine Fetus," in Layers of Death and Dying, ed. Kate Woodthorpe (Oxford: The Inter- Disciplinary Press, 2007): 97-106.
"Physician Assisted Suicide: A New Approach,” Mortality, Dying and Death, T. Chandler Haliburton and Caroline Edwards, eds., (Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2008): 183-205.
"Demonic Religion and Violence," in Arvind Sharma, ed., The World's Religions after September 11, Vol. I: Religion, War and Peace [Four Volumes], New York: Praeger, 2008: 19-29.
Reviews Review: Thomas Banchoff and Robert Wuthnow, Religion and the Global Politics of Human Rights. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Forthcoming, Political Theology: An International Journal, Vol. 13, no 5 (Fall 2012). Review: Nathan Eckstrand and Christopher Yates, Philosophy and the Return of Violence: Studies from this Widening Gyre, CHOICE, Vol. l49, no. 1 (September 2011): 126. Review: Andrew L. Gluck, ed., Religion, Fundamentalism and Violence: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue,CHOICE, Vol 48, no. 7 (March 2011): p. 1307.
Review: John J. DaPoint, Hope in an Age of Terror, CHOICE, Vol. 47, no. 8 (April 2010): 1492.
Review: Thomas Brudholm and Thomas Cushman, eds., The Religious in Responses to Mass Atrocity: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, CHOICE, Vol. 46, no. 12 (August, 2009): 2320.
Review: Charlene P. E. Burns, More Moral than God: Taking Responsibility for Religious Violence, CHOICE, Vol. 46, No. 10 (June 2009): 1949.
Review: Bruce B. Lawrence and Aisha Karim, eds., On Violence: A Reader (Durham: Duke University Press, 2007), CHOICE, Vol. 45, No. 10 (June 2008): p. 1781.
Review: Ronald Cole-Turner, Design and Destiny: Jewish and Christian Perspectives on Human Germline Modification, (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2008), CHOICE (Vol 45, no. 12, August 2008). Review: Roger S. Gottlieb, The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Ecology, Environmental Ethics,Vol 30 (Winter 2008): 439-42. Review: Judith W. Kay: Murdering Myths: The Story Behind the Death Penalty, Religious Studies Review, Vol. 33, no. 3 (July 2007): 227. Review: David L. Clough & Brian Stiltner, Faith and Force: A Christian Debate About War (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2007), CHOICE (Vol. 45, no. 06, February 2008): p. 994. Public Writings “Religious Experience and Ordinary Believers,” “Faith and Values” column, The Morning Call, Saturday, April 28, 2012: LIFE 7. Web published at published http://www.mcall.com/features/religion/mc-features-faithsteffan-20120428,0,2927455.story reprinted as “Religion for the Rest of Us,” at http://www.realclearreligion.org/2012/04/28/religion_for_the_rest_of_us_247537.html “What is it that Makes Religion Good?”, “Faith and Values” column, The Morning Call, Saturday, January 21,2012: LIFE 7. Web published at published http://www.mcall.com/features/religion/mc-features-faithsteffen-201201 21,0,4762457.story “Global Values, Global Religion and Dialogue,” “Faith and Values” column, The Morning Call, Saturday,October 22, 2011: LIFE 7. Web published at published at http://www.mcall.com/features/religion/mc-features-faithsteffan-20111022,0,1682261.story
published at http://www.mcall.com/features/religion/mc-features-faithsteffan-20110722,0,2796379.story.
“Welcoming Surprise in the Spiritual Life,” “Faith and Values” column, Morning Call, Saturday, April 23, 2011: p. GO 4. Web published at:http://www.mcall.com/features/religion/mc-features-faithsteffen-20110423,0,5155677.story
“On the Record: Steffen on Roe v. Wade,” interview/op-ed, published on main Lehigh University web page, January 24, 2011 at: http://www4.lehigh.edu/news/newsarticle.aspx?Channel=%2fChannels%2fNews%3a+2010&WorkflowItemID=94abda8c-6d96-498f-ad65-421ab370e216
“Obesity as a Spiritual Disorder,” “Faith and Values” Column, The Morning Call, Saturday, January 22, 2011: p. GO 4. Web published at: http://www.mcall.com/features/religion/mc-features-faithsteffan-20110122,0,1616725.story
“On Tea Parties, Covenants and Public Happiness,” “Faith and Values” Column, The Morning Call, Saturday,November 12, 2010: p. D. 4. Web published at: http://www.mcall.com/features/religion/mc-features-faithsteffan-20101112,0,1420116.story. http://www.silobreaker.com/steffen-5_2263861558247424012 http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/religion/mc-features-faithsteffan-20101112,0,6742330.story http://www.fox8.com/topic/mc-features-faithsteffan-20101112,0,4463323.story http://www.sun-sentinel.com/features/religion/mc-features-faithsteffan-20101112,0,3999019.story others
“The Oil Spill: A Spiritual Response,” The Morning Call, Faith and Values Column, Saturday, June 26, 2010: p. D. 4. Web published at http://www.mcall.com/entertainment/mc-features-faithsteffen- 20100625,0,4518702.story. Reprinted: http://www.chicagotribune.com/topic/economy-business-finance/energy-resource-industries/petroleum-industry/bp-plc-ORCRP002197.topic. http://www.gulfoilspillrecovery.org/news
“Purity, Religion—and the Film Avatar,” The Morning Call, Faith and Values Column, Saturday, March 13, 2010: p. GO 4. Web published at http://www.mcall.com/features/religion/all-faith-steffen.7204088mar13,0,7347063.story. Reprinted many places, including India Times http://oneclick.indiatimes.com/article/01PwaykdMK1r0
"Why Spiritual Life is Not a Competition,” The Morning Call, Faith and Values Column, Saturday, August 8, 2009: p. GO 7. web published at: http://www.mcall.com/features/religion/all-faithsteffen.6977951aug08,0,6393957.story
“Tough Questions at Christmas,” The Morning Call, “Faith and Values" Column, Saturday, December 20, 2008: p. D6, D7. web published at: http://www.mcall.com/features/religion/all-faithsteffen.6709960dec20,0,5349952.story
"Living the Questions," The Morning Call, "Faith and Values" Column, Saturday, September 13, 2008: D 7.
“Dalai Lama tells us to ‘Reprioritize, Revalue," The Morning Call, Wednesday, July 9, 2008: A 13. (web published several places internationally, (e.g. http://www.tibet.ca/en/newsroom/wtn/3097, http://temp.phayul.com/news/article.aspx?id=21906&t=1&c=4. "The Prophetic Voice and the Problem of Cultural Difference,” The Morning Call, Saturday, May 10, 2008: D7, D9.
“The Spiritual Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.”, The Morning Call, “Faith and Values Column,” Saturday, January 19, 2008: D7, D9. Reprinted various places on web, e.g.,: http://blackpoliticsontheweb.com/?p=459.
“Time Out to Reexamine Executions,” Express-Times, Thursday, October 18, 2007: A6. <www.pennlive.com/letters/expresstimes/index.ssf?/base/news-2/1192680543172160.xml>
“Mother Teresa’s Saintly Struggles,” The Morning Call, Saturday, September 15, 2007: D7, D9.
“Rethinking Suffering,” The Morning Call, Saturday, May 19, 2007: D9, 11.
“What Makes A Prophet?” Faith and Values Column ( “People with good will. . . .”), The Morning Call, Saturday, February
17, 2007: D9, D11.
Talks and Lectures 2008