Grade 12 · Christian · NGSS/CCSS-aligned
A year of Christian ethics for a student who leaves home in about twelve months. It teaches a method for deciding rather than a list of answers, because the list runs out in the first semester away. Nine weeks build the method, twenty-seven run it through work, money, speech, the body, sex, marriage, family, justice, war, medicine, death, and the question of what to do with one life. The work is written argument, most weeks a page or two, several times three pages, and thirteen of them in a case brief format learned in week 5.
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Nine weeks building a method rather than a list: what ethics is and why lookup fails, conscience and how it is miseducated, what the law is for, why grace does not cancel obligation, and three questions to run on any act. Then the hard shapes: colliding duties, disputable matters, disobeying a government, and how to argue without caricaturing anyone.
Read, analyze and argue about “Ethics is not a lookup table” (Micah 6:6-8 and Matthew 22:34-40), and say Micah 6:8 by heart.
Read, analyze and argue about “Conscience, and how it goes wrong” (Romans 2:12-16 and Romans 14:13-23), and say Romans 2:15 (part) by heart.
Read, analyze and argue about “What the law is for” (Exodus 20:1-17 and Romans 7:7-13), and say Romans 7:7 (part) by heart.
Read, analyze and argue about “Grace, and why it does not cancel ethics” (Romans 6:1-14 and Ephesians 2:1-10), and say Ephesians 2:10 by heart.
Read, analyze and argue about “Three questions to ask about any act” (1 Samuel 24:1-15 and Hebrews 5:11-14), and say Hebrews 5:14 (part) by heart.
Read, analyze and argue about “When rules collide: the midwives” (Exodus 1:15-21 and Joshua 2:1-14), and say Exodus 1:20 (part) by heart.
Read, analyze and argue about “Disputable things” (Romans 14:1-23 and 1 Corinthians 8:1-13), and say Romans 14:5 (part) by heart.
Read, analyze and argue about “When the state is wrong” (Acts 4:13-31 and Daniel 3:8-30), and say Acts 5:29 (part) by heart.
Read, analyze and argue about “Arguing well” (Proverbs 18:13-17 and Proverbs 26:4-5), and say Proverbs 18:17 by heart.
Work as calling, beginning with the fact that it appears in Genesis before anything goes wrong; then toil, the dull job, the myth of a sacred career, and rest. Then money: what it wants from you, debt and the lender, and contentment as something learned. Closing on speech, where the damage is fastest: truthfulness, spin, silence, and contempt.
Read, analyze and argue about “Work is older than sin” (Genesis 2:4-17 and Psalm 90:12-17), and say Genesis 2:15 (part) by heart.
Read, analyze and argue about “The job that is dull, and the job that is toil” (Genesis 3:17-19 and Ecclesiastes 2:17-26), and say Ecclesiastes 2:24 (part) by heart.
Read, analyze and argue about “There is no sacred career” (Colossians 3:17-25 and Luke 16:10-13), and say Colossians 3:23 by heart.
Read, analyze and argue about “Rest, and refusing to be your job” (Exodus 20:8-11 and Mark 2:23-28), and say Mark 2:27 (part) by heart.
Read, analyze and argue about “Money, and what it wants from you” (Matthew 6:19-24 and Luke 12:13-21), and say Matthew 6:21 by heart.
Read, analyze and argue about “Debt, and the lender” (Proverbs 22:1-9 and Deuteronomy 15:1-11), and say Proverbs 22:7 by heart.
Read, analyze and argue about “Enough” (1 Timothy 6:6-19 and Philippians 4:10-19), and say Philippians 4:11 (part) by heart.
Read, analyze and argue about “Truth, spin, and silence” (Ephesians 4:17-32 and Proverbs 12:17-22), and say Proverbs 12:22 by heart.
Read, analyze and argue about “The tongue” (James 3:1-18 and Proverbs 15:1-4), and say James 1:19 (part) by heart.
The body as good and given rather than as a container; male and female; the historic Christian position on sex, argued rather than asserted; what to do after a line has been crossed; marriage as covenant and the real disagreements about divorce; singleness as a whole life; attention and pornography; honoring parents as an adult; and building a household after you leave the one you were assigned.
Read, analyze and argue about “You are a body” (1 Corinthians 6:12-20 and Psalm 139:13-18), and say 1 Corinthians 6:19 (part) by heart.
Read, analyze and argue about “Male and female” (Genesis 1:26-31 and Genesis 2:18-25), and say Genesis 1:27 by heart.
Read, analyze and argue about “Sex, plainly” (1 Thessalonians 4:1-8 and Song of Solomon 8:5-7), and say 1 Thessalonians 4:3 (part) by heart.
Read, analyze and argue about “After you have already crossed a line” (John 8:1-11 and Psalm 51:1-17), and say 1 John 1:9 by heart.
Read, analyze and argue about “Marriage as a covenant” (Genesis 2:23-25 and Matthew 19:1-12), and say Genesis 2:24 by heart.
Read, analyze and argue about “Singleness is not a waiting room” (1 Corinthians 7:1-9 and 7:25-35), and say 1 Corinthians 7:7 (part) by heart.
Read, analyze and argue about “Attention, appetite, and screens” (Matthew 5:27-30 and Romans 6:12-16), and say Psalm 101:3 (part) by heart.
Read, analyze and argue about “Honoring parents when you are an adult” (Exodus 20:12 and Mark 7:9-13), and say Exodus 20:12 by heart.
Read, analyze and argue about “The household you will build” (Ecclesiastes 4:7-12 and Proverbs 27:5-17), and say Ecclesiastes 4:9 by heart.
What justice means in the prophets, the poor, the stranger, the state and its limits, and war with pacifism and just war both argued seriously. Then the edges of life: medicine and worth, and how to be physically present with a dying person. Ends by numbering days and writing what to do with one life.
Read, analyze and argue about “What justice means in scripture” (Amos 5:10-24 and Isaiah 1:10-20), and say Amos 5:24 by heart.
Read, analyze and argue about “The poor” (Deuteronomy 15:7-11 and James 2:1-17), and say Proverbs 14:31 (part) by heart.
Read, analyze and argue about “The stranger” (Leviticus 19:33-37 and Matthew 25:31-46), and say Leviticus 19:34 (part) by heart.
Read, analyze and argue about “The state, and its limits” (Romans 13:1-7 and 1 Peter 2:13-17), and say 1 Peter 2:17 by heart.
Read, analyze and argue about “War, force, and the enemy” (Matthew 5:38-48 and Romans 12:17-21), and say Romans 12:18 by heart.
Read, analyze and argue about “Life, medicine, and the edges” (Psalm 139:13-16 and Exodus 20:13), and say Psalm 139:14 (part) by heart.
Read, analyze and argue about “How to be with the dying” (Job 2:11-13 and John 11:17-44), and say John 11:35 by heart.
Read, analyze and argue about “Numbering your days” (Psalm 90:1-12 and James 4:13-17), and say Psalm 90:12 by heart.
Read, analyze and argue about “What to do with one life” (Ecclesiastes 12:1-14 and Joshua 24:14-15), and say Ecclesiastes 12:13 (part) by heart.
From the parent guide
A year of Christian ethics for a student who leaves home in about twelve months. It teaches a method for deciding rather than a list of answers, because the list runs out in the first semester away. Nine weeks build the method, twenty-seven run it through work, money, speech, the body, sex, marriage, family, justice, war, medicine, death, and the question of what to do with one life. The work is written argument, most weeks a page or two, several times three pages, and thirteen of them in a case brief format learned in week 5.
Unit 1 · what to expect
Nine weeks building a method rather than a list: what ethics is and why lookup fails, conscience and how it is miseducated, what the law is for, why grace does not cancel obligation, and three questions to run on any act. Then the hard shapes: colliding duties, disputable matters, disobeying a government, and how to argue without caricaturing anyone.
The full guide covers all 4 units: where kids get stuck, what to say, and how to tell it's working. Included with the course.
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