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This week we're looking at the philosophy of a Consistent Life Ethic: what it means, what it includes, and what an application of this ethic might look like in practice.

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Here are some resources I hope will help you to engage with this week's topic in a deeper way for yourself:

1. On 'the least of these', by gotquestions.org

2. Consistent Life Ethic basics and history from Wikipedia

3. Journals exploring the seven themes of Catholic Social Teaching, from From Here Media

4. "A Consistent Ethic of Life as a Moral Vision," by Awakening Project

5. Song: By Our Love, by KING & COUNTRY

6. Song: Magnified (Acoustic), by Ginny Owens

7. Journal prompt:

If I believe that each life, including my life and the lives of people who think and live differently from me, is a sacred creation of God, then how would that change the way I speak, work, think, donate, operate on social media, volunteer, interact, and live?

8. Quote: “It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree helping each other to one or the other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all of our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors.” C.S. Lewis