CV: Other publications – Gerald W. Schlabach

“How to Remain Unconquered: Lessons in Nonviolence from the Danish Resistance to Nazism.” [Online title: Nonviolence Against Nazism: How the Danes Remained Unconquered]. Commonweal 151, no. 6 (June 2024): 10–12.
“Why We ‘Proceed Through Friendship’,.” Bridgefolk.Org. 19 September 2022.
“Of Elves and Theologians.” GeraldSchlabach.Net. 8 December 2021.
“Where Have You Gone Malcolm Gladwell? An Open Letter.” Bearings Online. Collegeville Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research. 19 November 2020.
“We Are All Monks Now.” Bearings Online. Collegeville Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research. 7 April 2020.
Review of The Sermon on the Mount and Moral Theology: A Virtue Perspective by William C. Mattison III. Modern Theology 36, no. 1 (January 2020): 232–35.
“The Christian Globe Tilts South.” In The Christian Theological Tradition. 4th ed., eds Mark McInroy and Michael J. Hollerich, 423–34. New York: Routledge, 2019.
“Latin American Liberation Theology.” In The Christian Theological Tradition. 4th ed., eds Mark McInroy and Michael J. Hollerich, 568–75. New York: Routledge, 2019.
“The Mystery in Ordinary Churches.” Bearings Online. Collegeville Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research. 5 November 2019.
“Putting Lent Back into Christmas.” Bearings Online. Collegeville Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research. 6 December 2018.
“Why Believe in God? To Live Inside a Poem.” Bearings Online. Collegeville Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research. 4 October 2018.
“Things I’ve Learned from Fundamentalists.” Bearings Online. Collegeville Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research. 7 May 2018.
“Works-Righteousness and the Politics of Virtue Signaling.” Bearings Online. Collegeville Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research. 22 February 2017.
“Exiles All: Going ‘All in’ on Immigration Reform.” Bearings Online. Collegeville Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research. 10 August 2017.
“Just War? Enough Already.” Commonweal 144, no. 11 (16 June 2017): 9–14.
“Playing the Long Game: Why Progress Isn’t the Church’s Goal.” Bearings Online. Collegeville Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research. 5 May 2017.
Editors. “Pacifism in Action.” Interview with Gerald Schlabach. U.S. Catholic 82, no. 2 (February 2017): 28–32.
“Pope Francis Shifting Catholics to Just Peacebuilding.” Symposium Ethics: An Online Communion of Christian Ethicists., 6 January 2017. Commentary on 2017 World Day of Peace message.
“Abortion & Social Justice: ‘Prolife Progressive’ is not an Oxymoron.” Commonweal 144, no. 1 (6 January 2017): 11–13.
“Pope Francis’ Peacebuilding Pedagogy.” Catholic Nonviolence Initiative website, 3 January 2017.
“The Virtue of Staying Put: What the ‘Benedict Option’ Forgets About Benedictines.” Commonweal 143, no. 16 (7 October 2016): 11–13.
“The Glamour of Evil: Look Beyond Surface to Find Authentic Joy.” 214, no. 4 (8 February 2016): 15-18.
Review of The Story of Original Sin, by John E. Toews. Augustinian Studies 46, no. 2 (2015): 303–6.
“Signs of That Peace: Peacemaking is Everybody’s Business.” America 211, no. 19 (22–29 December 2014): 20–24.
“What is Marriage Now? A Pauline Case for Same-Sex Marriage.” Christian Century 131, no. 22 (29 October 2014): 22–27.
“Lest Best Intentions become the Enemy of the Good.” Minnesota Campus Compact (11 June 2013).
- First published as “Lest Best Intentions.” Companion (Spring 2013): 6-9.
“Outvoted, not Persecuted: Four Lessons About Religious Freedom.” Commonweal 134, no. 17 (12 October 2012): 22–24.
“Love the Enemy in Your Pew.” Part of article series, “What will you take up? Suggestions for action and reflection during Lent.” America 206, no. 5 (20 February 2012): 20.
“Praying in the Wild.” America 197, no. 6 (10 September 2007): 28–30.
“You Converted to What? One Mennonite’s Journey.” Commonweal 134, no. 11 (1 June 2007).
Review of John Howard Yoder: Mennonite Patience, Evangelical Witness, Catholic Convictions, by Mark Thiessen Nation. Theological Studies 67, no. 2 (June 2007).
Review of Evil and the Augustinian Tradition, by Charles T. Mathewes. Pro Ecclesia 13.2 (Winter 2004) 111-113.
Review of The Nonviolent Atonement, by J. Denny Weaver. Conrad Grebel Review 21:3 (Fall 2003) 112-15.
“Just Policing, not War.” America 189, no. 1 (7-14 July 2003): 19-21.
Summary essay. In The Conference on Lived Theology and Civil Courage: A Collection of Essays, 49-50. Charlottesville, Va.: The Project on Lived Theology, 2003.
“The Bridgefolk Movement in Ecumenical Context.” Ecumenical Trends 32.3 (March 2003): 14-15.
“We Pledge Allegiance….” Sojourners (January-February 2003) 15-16.
- 3rd place winner, Higher Goals editorial award, Evangelical Press Association, 2004.
Review of With the Grain of the Universe: The Church’s Witness and Natural Theology, by Stanley Hauerwas. Catholic Books Review.
“Working Notes on the Question of Policing, Post-9-11.” Peace Office Newsletter 32, no. 2 (April-June 2002): 10-11.
“An Open Letter: Welcoming Oblates as Christ.” The American Monastic Newsletter 32:1 (February 2002) 3-4.
“On Revisiting Tombs, the Marketplace, and Central America.” Christian Living (October-November 2001) 12-14.
Review of Patristic Ethics, pt. 1 of Wholeness of Faith and Life: Orthodox Christian Ethics, by Stanley S. Harakas. Journal of Early Christian Studies 9:3 (Fall 2001) 405-6.
“Continence.” In Augustine Through the Ages: An Encyclopedia, gen ed Allan D. Fitzgerald, O.S.A. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999.
Lead author, in collaboration with Allan D. Fitzgerald, O.S.A., et al., of “Ethics.” In Augustine Through the Ages: An Encyclopedia, gen ed Allan D. Fitzgerald, O.S.A. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999.
“The Case for Conference Authority.” The Mennonite; 15 September 1998, 8-9; and 22 September 1998, 12-13. Part one: “Patterns of Church Life.” Part two: “Four Aims of Community Life.”
Review of Political Writings by Augustine, edited by Ernest L. Fortin, Roland Gunn, and Douglas Kries, with an introduction by Ernest L. Fortin. Journal of Early Christian Studies 5:1 (Spring 1997) 134-135.
“People on a Bus: Some Confessions.” In Godward: Personal Stories of Grace, pp. 126-135. Ed. Ted Koontz. Scottdale, Pa.: Herald Press, 1996.
Review of Augustine and the Limits of Virtue by James Wetzel. Journal of the American Academy of Religion 68:1 (Spring 1995) 184-186.
Review of The Unity of Love for God and Neighbour in St. Augustine by Raymond Canning. Augustinian Studies 26 (1995) 155-158.
Translation of Roger Arnaldez, Three Messengers for One God [Trois messagers pour un seul Dieu (Paris: Editions Albin Michel, 1983)]. With Mary Louise Gude and David Burrell. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1995.
“The Blessing of Abraham’s Children: A Theology of Service.” Mission Focus 19:4 (December 1991): 52-55.
- German translation: “Der Segen über Abrahams Kindern: Zu einer Theologie des Dienens.” Mennonitisches Jahrbuch 1989: Diakonie — teilen und helfen. Pp. 18-24.
“Service in the 21st Century is Still Everyone’s Business.” Gospel Herald (26 February 1991): 6-8.
“Mission Strategy and the Reinvention of the Church in Latin America.” Mission Focus 17:1 (March 1989): 5-8.
Guest editor of the March 1989 issue of Mission Focus on Anabaptist theology from Central America. (Mission Focus is a quarterly on missiology published by the Mennonite Board of Missions.)
“Identification with the People in a Revolutionary Situation.” With two responses from Central America. MCC Occasional Paper, No. 2, May 1988.
“Una perspectiva profética para Centroamérica” [A Prophetic Perspective for Central America]. Esperanza en Camino no. 1 (September 1986): 28-37.
- First presented at Desafío 84 conference on mission strategy. Antigua, Guatemala, May 1984.
“Where Are Our Wounds?: A Call for Active Nonviolence in Central America.” Mission Focus 12:2 (June 1984): 21-24.