Is the source (and therefore the information) reputable?Will the article or resource provide you with enough information to write an appropriate summary?

Essay: Religion in the News

Post the summary of one recent news article, video, podcast, or other online media relevant to religion. Each summary should include a link to the article or resource. When selecting your article or resource, please consider the source and use good judgment. Also, in terms of news articles, please make sure the article is recent (within the last several weeks).

Editorials are fine as well. In cases of other media or resources not reporting on recent news, the source does not have to be as recent, only relevant and interesting enough to serve as the topic of your summary. Some questions to consider:

Is the source (and therefore the information) reputable?Will the article or resource provide you with enough information to write an appropriate summary?

Have you had enough variety in your topics, sources, etc.? If summarizing an article, is the article recent? There are a variety of ways to approach your summaries, which may be determined in part by the article or resource.

Your summary should also include some level of personal or critical engagement with/reflection on the source. Your summary may do each or only some of the following things: provide several main points in the article, including the position of the author if presented or implied; identify and discuss questions or issues that come to mind as you review the material; articulate what you take to be significant or interesting about the piece; draw connections to something we have discussed in class, etc. If each of your summaries takes the same form, these assignments will,imagine, grow incredibly tedious for you. This is certainly not the goal of the assignment.

Write in no more than 250 but longer than at least 200 words.

Describe those who have been the most influential people in your life or your Soul Models.

Integration Paper

The integration paper is an opportunity for you to present a clear picture of how you integrate or plan to integrate what you believe (your values, mission, worldview) with how you live in light of vocation and your personal mission. Throughout the course you will read, write,and reflect on your “Soul Models,” personal values, life-shaping experiences, personal strengths, and personal mission statement. This paper should be a synthesis of things you have been learning and writing about throughout the course; but it should not be a cut-and-paste presentation of previous posts.The integration papermust include the four parts of the SAU concept (below).As you write each section of the paper, don’t simply answer the questions provided below, but construct a well-rounded “philosophy” that encompasses your personal mission and addresses each of these four (4) key areas:

1.Community of Learners.Consider what being a part of “a community of learners” means. Describe those who have been the most influential people in your life or your “Soul Models.” Elaborate on how you are contributing to the “community of learners” and how you plan to contribute in the future.

2.Lifelong involvement in the study and application of the liberal arts/worldview. Discuss your education, major or field of study at SAU,and how it has helped shape your view of the world and who you are in the world. You may wish to include other worldviews and how they complement or complicate your faith. Elaborate on how you plan to continue your study and application of the liberal arts.

3.Jesus Christ as my perspective for learning: spiritual journey/how I see the world.Reflect on who Jesus is and has or hasn’t been to you. Include a brief summary of one or two key events or happenings in your life that have influenced who you are and how you see the world. Elaborate on how you plan to nurture your spiritual development on the journey ahead.

4.Critical participation in the contemporary world:calling/vocation. What gives life meaning to you? What is the life you want to have? Do the two connect with each other? Elaborate on how you are participating in the contemporary world already, and what your plans are to integrate critical participation with your calling/vocation.
Each of the four (4) sections above should comprise at least two (2) double-spaced pages. A proper introduction and conclusion should also accompany a well-written paper for a completed project of approximately ten (10) pages in length. The paper must follow formal style guidelines (APA, MLA, etc.).

Write a double-spaced, 500 to 550 word summary of the the weekly module on how you can apply it to your own personal and/or professional medical thinking and practices.

The Biblical Foundation assignment

Psalm 119:105
Word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

Write a double-spaced, 500 to 550 word summary of the the weekly module.Use about two-thirds of the space reflecting on the content and the last third on how you can apply it to your own personal and/or professional medical thinking and practices.