1. Moral or ethical issue
The student will write two 3-5 page essays for this course. The first essay should be on any
moral or ethical issue the student read about in the space between the book of Mark and
Matthew. The student is free to pick the issue which they feel most passionately about. The
student should highlight what the moral issue is in the story, how the people in the biblical
era would have viewed the moral issue, and what the Bible teaches us about this moral
issue for our modern era. The most successful essays will highlight a modern example of the
issue under consideration with a contemporary news story of an event or events that this
text speaks to.