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| Question | Answer |
| Conversion | When your life is changed by giving yourself to God |
| Miracle | Something which seems to break a law of science and makes you think only God could have done it |
| Numinous | The feeling of the presence of something greater than you |
| Prayer | An attempt to contact God, usually through words |
| Agnosticism | Not being sure whether God exists |
| Atheism | Believing that God does not exist |
| Free Will | The idea that human beings are free to make their own decisions |
| Moral Evil | Actions done buy humans which cause suffering |
| Natural Evil | Things which cause suffering but have nothing to do with humans |
| Omni-benevolent | The belief that God is all-good |
| Omnipotent | The belief that God is all powerful |
| Omniscient | The belief that God knows everything that has happened and everything that will happen |
| Immortality of the soul | The idea that the soul lives on after the death of the body |
| Resurrection | The belief that after death, the body stays in the grave until the end of the world, when it is raised |
| Near-death experience | When someone about to die has an out of body experience |
| Paranormal | Unexplauined things which are thought to have spiritual causes |
| Reincarnation | The belief that, after death, souls are reborn in a new body |
| Abortion | The removal of a foetus from the womb before it can survive |
| Sanctity of life | The belief that life is holy and belongs to God |
| Assisted Suicide | Providing a seriously ill person with the means to commit suicide |
| Euthanasia | The painless killing of someone dying from a painful disease |
| Non-voluntary Euthanasia | Ending someone's life painlessly when they are unable to ask, but you have a good reason for thinking they would want you to do so |
| Quality of life | The idea that life must have some benefits to be worth living |
| Voluntary Eauthanasia | Ending life painlessly when someone in great pain asks for death |
| Civil partnership | A legal ceremony giving a homosexual person the same legal rights as a husband and wife |
| Cohabitation | Living together without being married |
| Contraceptoin | Intentionally preventing pregnancy from occuring |
| Homosexuality | Sexual appreciation to the same sex |
| Nuclear family | Mother, Father and children living as a unit |
| Re-constituted | Where two sets of children (stepbrothers and stepsisters) become one family when their divorced parents marry each other |
| Re-marriage | Marrying again after being divorced from a previous marriage |
| Adultery | A sexual act between a marriage person and someone other than their marriage partner |
| Pre-marital sex | Sex before marriage |
| Procreation | Making a new life |
| Promiscuity | Having sex with a number of partners without commitment |
| Faithfulness | Staying with your marriage partner and having sex only with them |
| Sexism | Discriminating against people because of their gender |
| Discrimination | Treating people less favourably because of their ethnicity/gender/colour/sexuality/age/class |
| Ethnic minority | A member of an ethnic group(race) which is much smaller than the majority group |
| Multi-ethnic society | Many different races and cultures living together in one society |
| Prejudice | Believing some people are inferior or superior without even knowing them |
| Racism | The belief that some races are superior to others |
| Community cohesion | A common vision and shared sense of belonging for all groups in one society |
| Multi-faith society | Many different religions living together in one society |
| Racial harmony | Different races/colours living together happily |
| Religious freedom | The right to practice your religion and change your religion |
| Religious Pluralism | Accepting all religions as having an equal right to co-exist |
| Interfaith marriage | Marriage where the husband and wife are from different religions |
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