• Rehabilitation
• Restoration
• Retribution
• Deterrence
• Protection

Your task is to produce a PowerPoint explaining these 5 different aspects of punishment.

The title page should say “Why we punish criminals”.

Each page should explain one of the aspects, what it is, and in particular why it might be a good or bad reason to punish someone.

Finally, the last part of the PowerPoint should explain what you think the most important reason for punishing people is, and why.

You can find all the relevant information in this document.

For an A grade piece of work you need to explain what the story of Job tells us about the Christian beliefs about what suffering means.

Useful links:
Story of Job
Blake’s Illustrated pictures of Job
Feel free to Google too!

Your task:

Design a poster/flyer (using Publisher or PowerPoint) with information on Christian ideas about sexual relationships.

It should include:

• Information on what Christians think sex is for
• What Catholics / Evangelical Protestants think about sex outside marriage and why
• Ideas that more liberal Christians have about sex outside marriage
• Information on different Christians attitudes to contraception and why

For information look at:

• Christian Philosophy and Ethics pp. 104-5
• Discovery pp. 104-5
• GCSE Bitesize (a bit simplistic)
• Religious Tolerance.org (quite complex – look in particular at the final section)
• ChristianAnswers.net
• BBC Religion on Contraception

Your task:

Download this worksheet (may take a few minutes to open) and then use the Christian Philosophy and Applied Ethics (CPAE) books and the guidance given below to answer the questions.

Why is marriage so important for Christians?

CPAE pg. 102 under the Christian beliefs about the ethics of divorce section
RE:Quest on Divorce

What does the Bible teach about divorce?

CPAE pg. 103
RE:Quest

Also the book of Malachi 2:16 says:
“I hate divorce,” says the LORD God of Israel.
Many people think that this is God saying divorce is unacceptable, but some say that this is God saying that he hates divorce just like any who has every been divorced because he knows that it causes pain and hurt.

What do Roman Catholics believe about divorce?

CPAE pg. 102
RE:Quest – Catholics on Divorce

What does the Church of England believe about divorce

CPAE pg. 103
RE:Quest – Protestants or RE:Quest – Anglicans

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!

There’s a really great website on Euthanasia and Christian attitudes to it here.

• 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…

• What they do
• How their Christian beliefs influence their work

You might also include pictures and logos, as well as information on the charity’s history etc.

Please don’t just copy and paste from the websites – try to use the information to make the link between what the charity believes and what the charity does.

Suggested charities:

• A Rocha (see particularly here or here)
• Operation Noah (click the About Us link)
• Anglican Society for the Welfare of Animals (Click the About link)
• Christian Ecology Link

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.

If you want some more information on the three models check the handout here.