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It's difficult to fathom that in America's earliest days Native Americans were pushed out of their homes and eventually sequestered to reservations, or that God-fearing white men buying and selling black slaves was perfectly acceptable to the ruling ...

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The concept of recycling is easy to accept but the actual practice--and how to ■get started--may be a challenge. But our call as Christians requires that we not ■waste God's gifts to us.

A Return to Recycling

By Megan Pillow Davis

Recycling one ton of paper saves seventeen trees, two barrels of oil (enough to run the average car for 1,260 miles); 4,100 kilowatts of energy (enough power for the average home for six months); 3.2 cubic yards of landfill space; and sixty pounds of...

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Does the Bible offer guidance for contemporary man-made threats such as ■pollution?

Air Pollution
Inside and Out

By Megan Pillow Davis

What is air pollution? What are its causes and effects? What can we do to help address it? There are many small steps we can take to improve the environment and our health. We can also protect ourselves from the threats of air pollution in our homes,...

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The Old Testament of the Bible is rife with instances of creative procreation in ■response to God's call to be fruitful and multiply. Remember Abraham, Sarah, and ■Hagar?

Assisted Reproductive Technologies
Definitions and Moral Issues

By Kate Ott

While many Christians adhere to the notion that conventionally conceived children are a gift from God, many Christians who are infertile, homosexual, single, or who face other reproductive challenges consider the scientific technology that enables th...

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Atheism
A Christian Response

By Michael F. Duffy

An atheist is someone who believes there is no God. There are at least five million atheists in the United States, and, by many accounts, it is not rare for them to experience discrimination because of their beliefs. A quick example might be seen in ...

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Throughout the Bible we can find hints into the lifestyles of our ancestors. One ■would have to conclude they were pretty green. So, what can we do in this age ■of McMansions to live as responsibly as they did?

Being Green at Home

By Martha Bettis-Gee

This study offers lively activities that illustrate the challenge of "going green" at home; it also serves as a simple and unintimidating guide for greening our homes.For example, participants will be given an opportunity to design their dream house-...

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We make choices about how to treat our earth every day. This study will help ■participants to make the choices that will respect the earth as God intended.

Being Green in Daily Life

By Martha Bettis-Gee

This study provides some suggestions about how to form new "green" habits. Need some inspiration? If we look at lifestyle change as a form of spiritual formation, we can gradually form new habits.Ever darned a sock, cut down an adult-sized shirt or d...

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How do wider biblical testimony and nonbiblical evidence figure in the debate ■over same-gender sexual relationships and Christian discipleship?

The Bible and Homosexuality

By Martha Bettis-Gee, Susan R. Garrett

The debate over how to regard same-gender sexual relationships is raging in the church, with shock waves rippling through society. Christians on all sides of the controversy often invoke Scripture. This situation raises questions: How can people of e...

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A study for Christian adults on the theme of purity and difference in the Bible, and ■how it influences race dialogue and the realities of racism in the U.S. even today.

The Bible and Racism

By Martha Bettis-Gee, Frank M. Yamada

Many of us know of the harmful ways in which the Bible was (and is) used to perpetuate systems of racial injustice and racism like slavery and white supremacy, yet we also know that the Bible says that "there is no longer Jew nor Greek, slave nor fre...

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Biblical Israel, Contemporary Israel
Are They the Same?

By W. Eugene March

The modern country of Israel was established in 1948 and is located on the same land once governed by an ancient nation named Israel. Reusing this name was a deliberate attempt to claim for the country the legacy of ancient Israel as the rightful rec...

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Buddhism

Buddhism is one of the world's major religions, with its roots in Indian theology and spirituality.The origins of Buddhism date back to the life of Siddhartha Gautama, a high-caste Indian born into a royal family in 563 BCE. Legend has it, his overpr...

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Challenges to U.S. Democracy

By Megan Pillow Davis

Democracy, of course, did not begin in the United States. The idea of democracy--a government by the people--originated with the ancient Greeks and has been embellished, enhanced, perverted, and, in some cases, nearly destroyed by governments and peo...

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Christian Mission Impossible?
The Global Role of U.S. Denominations

By Philip L. Wickeri

Churches in North America are facing a crisis in global mission unlike any we have experienced before. Mainline churches send fewer missionaries overseas on long-term service, and mission programs have been drastically reduced in churches facing fina...

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Christians and Patriotism

By Martha Bettis-Gee, Edward LeRoy Long, Jr.

If patriotism requires absolute loyalty to one particular country, it can conflict with a religious vision that includes compassion for all humanity. Christians, therefore, must ask how the noble and valuable aspects of patriotism can be strengthened...

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons)

By Eileen W. Linder

The rise and expansion of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or the Mormons, constitute a unique chapter in the study of world religions. Not only did this tradition emerge in the modern era and on the North American continent, but it h...

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