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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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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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The Bible is filled with stories of battles great and small, but they were all waged ■face to face. Today, unmanned weapons shield us from having to face the ■carnage of war and allow us--physically and emotionally--to keep our distance. ■But will that disconnect make it easier for us to wage war?

Attack of the Drones!
The Ethics of Remote-Controlled Warfare

By Edward LeRoy Long, Jr.

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...

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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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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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Christian Responses to War

By Barbara L. Battin

Long before the beginning of written history, human beings struggled with how to respond to perceived danger and threat from an outside source, to difference and disagreement both within their close community and beyond it, and to situations of local...

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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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Civility
American Politics and Christian Responses

By James Calvin Davis

What happened to civility in public discourse? While civility has long been a factor of Christianity and even in American politics, more recently it seems that our society and many of its leaders sufferfrom an appalling lack of it. When everyone is s...

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As Christians, how do we reconcile the Bible's Old Testament an eye for an eye ■with Jesus' New Testament call for mercy and compassion for sinners?

The Death Penalty
History and Ethical Considerations

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

The death penalty. It remains one of the most divisive issues in contemporary society. And though we've moved from the colonial days of swift justice being meted out via public humiliation in the stockade followed by hanging to a modern-day antisepti...

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G-NS: A Resource for Generous Dialogue about Gun Violence

This four-session study helps youth and young adults, particularly college students, explore the many facets of the problem of gun violence in our country. Sessions are built around the movements of worship—Gather, Encounter, Respond, and Send. In ea...

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The Gulf oil disaster involves far more than environmental and economic issues; ■for Christians there are moral, ethical, and theological issues related to the oil spill, ■as well.

Gulf Oil Disaster 2010
Initial Responses

By Adam Fischer

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 ...

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Most devoted Christians know more than a little bit about the Christian faith ■whether we learned it from our family, from Sunday school, or from the Bible. But ■knowing about other faiths (such as Hinduism) can provide unique insights into ■what we as Christians believe and why we believe it.

Hinduism

By Rebecca Blair Young

There's a great old saying that asks, "What does he know of England who only England knows?" The same concept holds true for Christians. Knowledge of other cultures and other faiths inform our own knowledge about the Christian faith to which we are c...

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The History of Religion and Politics in America

By Martin E. Marty

In 1858 Abraham Lincoln, in his classic "House Divided" speech, said, "If we could first know where we are and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do and how to do it." A study on the history of religion and politics in the Uni...

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How Should Christians Vote?

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

Most Christians agree the church should not tell its members which particular candidate to choose in a political election. But the separation between church and state does not preclude applying religiously grounded judgments as to which political pos...

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