The Ethics of Remote-Controlled Warfare
12/2/2009 (Adult Study)

Throughout the summer and fall of 2009 we have been provided with accounts of amazing new weapons that have the potential to revolutionize how wars are fought. These weapons are often referred to as drones, though their official designation is "unman...

5/8/2006 (Adult Study)

Lately, we have heard ever more alarming reports of a strain of avian (bird) flu that is spreading around the world, following the path of migratory birds and, at times, spreading to humans with deadly results. The flu now has (or definitely should h...

Questions Raised by Reproductive Technologies
6/3/2009 (Adult Study)

Fifty years ago the television show I Love Lucy couldn't use the term "pregnant" to announce the imminent arrival of little Ricky. Today, the "Octomom" and her fourteen children are reportedly in negotiations to join Jon and Kate plus Eight on the re...

(Adult Study)

In the spring of 2005 it was impossible to turn on a television or read a newspaper without encountering reports of the ongoing battle between Terri Schiavo's husband and her parents regarding her medical status and treatment. The purpose of this stu...

1/11/2007 (Adult Study)

Former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was executed by hanging in the early morning hours of December 30, 2006, in Baghdad, just days after his final appeal had been denied. Those hoping for an easy resolution of sectarian violence by his trial and execu...

Initial Responses
7/7/2010 (Adult Study)

It's on the front page of just about every major paper each day and still leads the nightly news--the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. After more than two months of oil gushing into the Gulf, tempers are flaring, local businesses are failing, the ...

History, Risk Factors, and Prevention
10/7/2009 (Adult Study)

H1N1 influenza, commonly referred to as "swine flu," is now considered a pandemic by the World Health Organization. According to the Centers for Disease Control, it was first identified in the United States in April of 2009. By August more than 40,00...

What's in the Way?
11/4/2009 (Adult Study)

Health care--Is it a right or a privilege? Is affordable, accessible health care a moral imperative or a commodity to be bought and sold?When a recent Harvard study reported that nearly 45,000 of us die each year--one person every twelve minutes--for...

7/1/2009 (Adult Study)

In a political environment where special interest groups and politicians alike are battling to sway the public opinion on the issue of health-care reform, sometimes it's helpful to just get back to basics: What is at stake-and for whom?This clear, in...

Why Should Christians Care?
7/25/2006 (Adult Study)

Should the United States support calls for a cease-fire and a political solution to the current conflict between Lebanon's Hezbollah faction and the nation of Israel?Few countries have a more complicated pattern of religion, politics, and recent hist...

What's a Christian to Think?
7/1/2006 (Adult Study)

In a country largely made up of immigrants, have conditions changed for incoming workers and potential citizens? Or is the current debate about who can enter and under what conditions part of the same argument that has been around for centuries in th...

Flood Lines and Fault Lines
9/6/2006 (Adult Study)

On August 29, President George W. Bush returned to the hurricane-devastated Gulf Coast to admit that America had failed those most affected by Katrina. One year after the coast was badly damaged by winds and waves and the city of New Orleans was all ...

The Ethics of College Sports
9/9/2009 (Adult Study)

Have you ever been in the stands for a college football or basketball game when "the wave" really took off? It's something to see, thousands of fans rising out of their seats in a synchronized wave of support for their team. It's a great feeling, lik...

5/23/2007 (Adult Study)

Media-savvy Jerry Falwell, acknowledged at his death as the best-known architect of the 1980s wedding of conservative Christians to the Republican Party, also came to symbolize the dangers of fundamentalism even while his influence waned in later yea...

8/31/2010 (Adult Study)

We've heard a lot of chatter recently from both opponents and supporters of the mosque (called Park 51, or Cordoba House) planned to be built two blocks from ground zero of the attack on the World Trade Center in New York City on September 11, 2001.W...