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All good theology ends in ethics, meaning theology should direct how we live and act. Our world is full of people and places (the poor, the outcast, the suffering, the lonely) in need of God’s love and peace in concrete forms. Imagine yourself writing a weekly blog (maybe you already do), and you want to articulate a theological argument to persuade your readers that it is necessary for Christians to respond to a particular situation. 1. Choose a situation that you believe is in need of God’s love and peace. Describe it in 1-2 sentences. Here are some example situations (but you are not limited to these): care of the earth, slave trade, education reform, poverty, mistreatment of people based on gender, race, disability, or sexual orientation, bullying, health care, disaster assistance, high rates of unemployment, refugees. 2. How does the Bible help you interpret the situation? (Your answer to this question should direct you toward one of the theological topics we have covered this semester.) One theological topic we covered in class was "Human Person" which talks about humans, Artificial intelligence, and how does it being human and as well as a AI makes a difference today in life. 3. Why does this situation need to be addressed or changed? Construct a brief theological argument by engaging with one of the course topics. Your argument should include: 1) an explanation and evaluation of a reading and/or lecture material from the course, and 2) define the type of change called for if we "lived" this theology (make it concrete). For example, Jesus’ work on the cross includes Bonhoeffer, Dietrich. "The Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 5: On the 'Extraordinary' of Christian Life: The Beatitudes." Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works,Volume 4. Fortress Press, pp. 100-110. (USE THIS READING) 4. Jesus standing in solidarity with the sufferer, which compels us to stand with those who suffer OR to participate in Trinitarian love compels us to reconcile with Christians with whom we disagree.