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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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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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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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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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Slot machines, craps, roulette, poker, cards, chips, dice. Try your luck, but at ■what cost? What is a Christian response to gambling? The Bible has much to say ■and different denominations have different ideas about gambling.

Legalized Gambling
Right or Wrong?

By Martha Bettis-Gee, Stephens G. Lytch

Have you bought one or more lottery tickets in the past year? Or played poker or bridge for money with friends? Or maybe you've bet on March Madness, a Super Bowl Game, or a horse race like the Kentucky Derby? In 2005 gambling generated $84.65 billi...

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How would Jesus tell Christians to save and invest their money? Would the stock ■market be an option for Christians? Does the Bible tell us anything about money?

Loans and Investments
A Christian Perspective

By Scott Bader-Saye, Martha Bettis-Gee

The recent crisis in the financial industry and global economy has revealed some of the corrupt practices in banking and investments that have helped to bring about this economic shift. As a result, Christians are faced with the moral challenge of ho...

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Local Food
Global Good

By Kimberlee Conway Ireton

Do you knowwhat crops are grown commercially in your home county?what months of the year those crops are harvested?who grew the food you ate for breakfast this morning?how much they were paid for their labor?how far that food traveled from its source...

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Immigration: A Christian Response. Arizona immigration law. Illegal immigration. ■Immigrants in the Bible. Ben Daniel's book Neighbor. These are all things to ■consider in the conversation about immigration from Mexico to the United States.

Loving Our Neighbors
Immigration and the Mexican Border

By Martha Bettis-Gee, Ben Daniel

The international boundary that separates the United States and Mexico runs for nearly two thousand miles, from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean. It is a place of contrast that traverses a geography of beauty and violence, wealth and poverty, ...

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Pro-Life, Pro-Choice
Any Common Ground?

By Nancy J. Duff

Perhaps because the stakes are so high, some pro-choice and pro-life advocates are willing to lie, manipulate facts, and ridicule their opponents to ensure that public policy is consistent with the position that they are certain is the right one. Thi...

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What Would Jesus Drive?

By Rebecca J. Barnes

Numerous signs point to a growing world energy crisis. Despite some continued denial by powerful world leaders, we have learned what we didn't know before--fossil fuels such as oil and coal are in limited supply and are extremely harmful to the envir...

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Why is the subject of race, racial inequality, and prejudice so taboo in the United ■States?

Why Is it So Difficult to Talk about Racism?

By Michelle Hwang, Nancy Ramsay

It's been decades since the groundbreaking Civil Rights Act was passed back in the sixties, yet while we're always willing to talk about the positive steps we've taken to address racial inequality, we're not quite as willing to talk about the ways in...

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You Are What You Eat

By Megan Pillow Davis

Kids are told by everyone from professional athletes to Paris Hilton that if they eat a particular food, they will be more popular, happier, sexier, and more fulfilled. Food, they say, is a statement, a lifestyle choice, not something to give you str...

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