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Poverty Assessment

Mr Bigg — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:58:01 +0000

This project is all about showing that you understand about poverty, its causes, and Christian responses to it. Take it one day at a time – work out what you want to say, then say something about it.

If you haven’t got a copy of the project handout you can get it here.

Advice for day one:

Start by choosing a country to imagine you are going to. There’s a list here.
There are some facts about poverty at FightPoverty.com and Food4Africa.com. Use these to describe some of the poverty. Imagine what it must be like to live with the disease and hunger.

Advice for day two:

Remember the posters we made last week. All the information on the causes of poverty is here.

Choose to explain at least two of:

Trade Restrictions
Interest Rates
Natural Disasters
Disease
Factories in LEDCs

Try to be a bit creative in how you bring them in!

Advice for day three onwards:

You can find the information on the Christian responses to poverty here. If you want to look up Bible verses go to BibleGateway.com.

Good luck!

Abortion Project

Mr Bigg — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:53:36 +0000

We are doing a project on Abortion and here are some resources to get you going.

The handout explaining the project
Right to Life Trust: See particularly their guides to the arguments, information on religious belief and abortion and stuff on the biology
BBC Ethics – Abortion
You’ll also find stuff on Google

If you find anything else really good then let me know and I can add it to the list…

Big Bang, Evolution and Christian Responses

Mr Bigg — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:19:53 +0000

Recently we’ve been looking at the science of evolution and big bang.

Having done this we’ve also considered Christian responses to these ideas. A full handout is here, but in summary:

More conservative Christians tend to take the Bible literally, so will interpret the story in Genesis 1 as historical.
Liberal Christians don’t take the Bible so literally. They look more at the “genre” or “type” of story found in the Bible and say that Genesis 1 clearly isn’t history. It has elements of poetry and so isn’t supposed to be describing exactly what happened, but instead is more about the relationship between God and creation.

For homework I’d like a paragraph attempting to answer the following question: “Is it possible to be a Christian scientist?”

Try to get across an answer from both a conservative and liberal point of view. How might the way a Christian reads the Bible affect their answer to such a question? This is due a week after I set it in class.