An open letter issued by the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation to the Evangelical Climate Initiative in 2006 stating their disagreement to the Initiative’s beliefs on climate change.

Statement issued by the Evangelical Climate Initiative in 2006 and signed by numerous senior evangelical leaders which underscores their belief in human-induced climate change and its potential devastating consequences.

Interfaith declaration published in 2000 and signed by over 1,000 individuals from the Catholic, Jewish and Protestant communities as well as other layman, pastors and religious leaders. The declaration defends the concept of human dominion over the Earth and the importance private property rights trumping government regulations.

The foundational statement for the Evangelical Environmental Network published in 1994 which asserts a Christian responsibility for “creation care.”

Read a Feb. 27, 2010, article from Kaiser Health News about a Catholic directive on end-of-life issues.

Pope Benedict XVI delivered an address to a Vatican conference on organ donation in which he said that “where certainty has not been reached the principle of precaution must prevail.” Read about the address in an Nov. 7, 2008, article posted by Reuters.

Catholic teaching on the definition of death and the ethics of organ harvesting appears to be in flux. In the latter half of 2008 the issue came to the fore when the Vatican newspaper published a front-page column calling for a re-examination of the definition of brain death. Read an article about the letter posted by the […]

Read a June 2, 2011, Catholic News Service story about the mid-June meeting of the Catholic hierarchy at which a document officially condemning physician-assisted suicide was up for discussion.

Julie Nemecek, as the Rev. John Nemecek, was a Baptist minister and longtime professor at Spring Arbor University in Spring Arbor, Mich. The school fired her in December 2006 after she had come out as transgender. She filed a discrimination claim that was later settled, and is now founder and head of a consulting company […]