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Build. Plant. Grow. is a free faith formation program for schools, parishes, and families. Engaging lesson plans pair scriptural readings with children's literature and experiential education.
The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University focuses on ethics in business, government, nonprofits, health care, the Internet, and biotech, as well as character education.
- The Art of Choosing Well. Ethics has to do with our choices and actions, which form our character even as they express it. Ethics depends on that human habit of reflection that takes into account our interests and values-as well as those of others-in the process of deciding and doing.
- Orientation. To orient oneself means, literally, to turn to the East, where the sun rises, to get one's bearings. Faith serves the same purpose as the sun, in a figurative sense, in the practice of ethical judgment.
- Traces of the Creator. Faith-based ethics considers the moral challenges of our times against the background of those fundamental norms and values that undergird our Christian lives.
- Good and Evil. At the heart of Christian faith is a radical insight into the goodness of God and a corresponding appreciation of the goodness of oneself, of all humanity, and of the whole of creation.
One of the Center’s key efforts in the early years was the development of A Framework for Ethical Decision Making, an easy-to-use guide to bringing ethical approaches into important life choices. Since 2001, the Framework has had more than 850,000 page views on the Ethics Center website.
We provide a free Faith Formation (Catechesis) curriculum to foster religious development and character building. The lesson plans use picture storybooks and experiential learning to promote moral values and ethical behavior.
Religious and Catholic Ethics. The ethics center in a Jesuit university has a special interest in the role of religion in ethics and the formation of moral character. They offer dialogue, research, and curriculum across a wide range of religious traditions.
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Markkula Center) is a multi-program, university-based, ap-plied ethics center—the largest and most comprehensive one of its kind in the world. Many universities have ethics centers, and some are applied ethics centers, but the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics is distinctive in its breadth, covering multiple major areas in
