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Prep — Preparing for the lesson Steps — Conducting the lesson Extension — Additional Activities Prep Media Components R&E videos connected to segments listed below. Computer Resources computers with Internet access LCD projector and projection screen Print Resources Berger, Cathryn … More
Print out and make copies of these organizers and handouts for your students: Five Sources of Ethical Standards A Framework for Ethical Decision Making Taking the Ethics Challenge
Prep — Preparing for the lesson Steps — Conducting the lesson Extension — Additional Activities Prep Media Components R&E videos connected to segments listed below. Computer Resources computers with Internet access LCD projector and projection screen “MUST SEE” RESOURCES The … More
BIOETHICS AND THE BOOK OF LIFE A 90-minute VHS videotape produced in 2002 features ten bioethics segments that have appeared on RELIGION & ETHICS NEWSWEEKLY. The videotape and an accompanying 24-page full-color discussion guide explore the ethics of genetic science, … More
Listen now to this 2002 Web-only interview with Edward Linenthal on the meaning of memorials and his experience of visiting the 9/11 commemoration site at Shanksville: [powerpress] Download this episode as an MP3. Files can be saved to your computer or … More
BOB ABERNETHY: It was just two years ago that Mother Teresa died. The work of her worldwide missionary order continues, and so does the work of another missionary nun in Calcutta, a nun who ministers to the poor in a … More
Hillary Rodham Clinton stated that, “In Christian theology, there are sins of weakness and sins of malice,” adding that her husband’s adultery was a sin of weakness. Is there a hierarchy of sin? Are we using the insights of modern psychotherapy to excuse bad behavior instead of merely explain it? More
Many second generation American Hindus are fascinated by the religion’s philosophy, but rarely go to the temple or practice rituals, and often don’t understand them. There is a danger that the beliefs the rituals embody are at risk. More
Three years after the most radical overhaul of the nation’s welfare system ever, the number of people on welfare has been cut in half. But it has not changed other factors that effectively keep people in poverty. More
In Baltimore, Maryland, Tamir Goodman is both an Orthodox Jew and a star basketball player. At 17, in his junior year in high school this past season, he averaged 35 points a game and was offered an athletic scholarship next year by the basketball powerhouse University of Maryland. More