Learning Objectives:
- Understanding the role of warfare in technological advance.
- Awareness of moral and ethical considerations in technological development.
- Understand a Christian approach to questions of ethics and morality in conflict.
Category Archives: Morality Today
Black Widow: How the Christian faith responds to modern slavery and human trafficking
Learning Objectives:
- Students will examine a Christian perspective on human trafficking and exploitation.
- Understand the Bible’s teaching on the protection of vulnerable people and the role of Christians in campaigning and working with survivors of trafficking and exploitation.
Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw: Who decides what’s right and wrong?
Learning Objectives:
- Students will reflect on their values and where they come from.
- Explore Nietzsche’s ideas about morality and the Superman.
- Consider what it means for Christians to live according to the values taught by Jesus.
- Give a personal response to the moral philosophies of Nietzsche and Jesus.
Limitless: What are the pros and cons of taking drugs?
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the difference between legal and illegal, medically prescribed and socially acceptable drugs and to explore some of their effects, both positive and negative.
- Understand different religious attitudes towards the use of all these types of drugs (including caffeine, alcohol and tobacco).
Senna: What are the limits to ‘win at all cost’ in professional sport?
Learning Objectives:
- Explore issues surrounding morality in sport.
- Understand the role of religious organisations within leisure e.g. chaplains, Christians in Sport.
- Evaluate the role of money within sport such as payment for elite players, gambling and sponsorship.
Thank You For Smoking: What makes a job immoral?
Twilight: New Moon: What makes us valuable?
Learning Objective:
- Understand Christian teaching about respecting and valuing yourself.
Chariots of Fire: Why does a dedicated Christian faith lead some Christians to regard Sunday as different to the other days of the week?
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the concept of keeping Sunday special.
- Explore issues surrounding morality in sport.
Avatar: What constitutes a healthy life?
Learning Objectives:
- Explore religious attitudes to healthy living e.g. physical and mental health.
Robert Green and the Club Chaplain: Can Christianity benefit the world of professional sport?
Learning Objective:
- Understand the role of religious organisations within leisure e.g. chaplains, Christians in Sport.
Ethos Education 