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...

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 ...

Ways Your Congregation Can Respond
6/2/2010 (Adult Study)

Since the Great Recession began in 2007, 8.4 million Americans have lost their jobs and 3 million homes have been foreclosed on. As of March, 2010, unemployment, down slightly from its high, was sitting at 9.9 percent.Who are these people whose lives...

2/24/2010

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...

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...

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...

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...

8/5/2009 (Adult Study)

On July 7, 2009, just before the G-8 summit began in Italy and he met with President Obama, Pope Benedict XVI released his third encyclical, a major teaching, on the economy.He called for reforming the UN and establishing a "true world political auth...

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...

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...

3/18/2009 (Adult Study)

"Sexting" is the popular name for the act of sending, receiving, or forwarding sexually suggestive photos via a text message on a cell phone or posting pictures on social networking sites such as Facebook or MySpace. Some research has shown that tech...

10/17/2008 (Adult Study)

What is happening on Wall Street? How did this happen and what should we, as Christians, be doing? While this study does not pretend to provide stock market tips or to give answers to an economic disaster that will be analyzed and understood in due c...

What's Best for the Children?
4/30/2008 (Adult Study)

On April 3, 2008, Texas police and other officials searched the temple at the Yearning for Zion ranch, a retreat in Eldorado, Texas built by a polygamist sect that is affiliated with the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, or ...

4/15/2008 (Adult Study)

Since the lighting of the Olympic torch in Greece on March 24, 2004, the Olympic Games have been fraught with controversy. Crowds including supporters and protesters swarmed the routes in every city, some shouting China-centric slogans, others brandi...