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.

Rebecca Rae Anderson is the vice chair of health promotion, social and behavioral health sciences at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha.  She is a board-certified genetic counselor, a member of the Social, Ethical, Legal Issues Committee of the American College of Medical Genetics and the author of Religious Traditions and Prenatal Genetic Counseling.

Jennifer Collins is a law professor at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C. She is co-author of an article on issues raised by Octomom, “Eight Is Enough,” in Northwestern Colloquy.

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 an article about the “Octomom” case from the May-June 2009 issue of The Hastings Center Report.

Read a Jan. 25, 2010, New York Times story about advances in fertility technology and the potential and current ethical and legal problems they pose.

Chris Hackler is director of the division of medical humanities and a bioethics professor at the University of Arkansas College of Medicine in Little Rock. He edited Health Care for an Aging Population and co-edited Advance Directives in Medicine.