Consistent Life Resources to Download

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This page offers resources you can download for personal use or to reproduce for distribution. Print some to take to meetings, conferences, reallies, etc., or to put in literature racks. These resources are mostly in the Portable Document Format (PDF) which can be read with the free Adobe Reader. They are generally designed to be printed on standard (American sizes) letter size paper (8.5 x 11 inches). We will update this list from time to time, and hope to offer more resources in the future. Contact us if you want to add your organization name or a local contact, or otherwise produce a different version of any of this literature.

Our Basic Brochure

Our basic trifold brochure giving essential information about Consistent Life, lists of selected member groups and individual endorsers, and a return coupon.

Connections on Issues of Violence: Can We Create a Nonviolent Future?

This is a PowerPoint presentation on the connections among our issues, with suggestions for connected solutions and discussion questions. This is a good introduction to the consistent life ethic. We have it available in three different formats:

Culture of Peace & Culture of Life

This is a PowerPoint presentation which explores the concepts of a Culture of Peace and a Culture of Life, and explains the connections betwee them. We have it available in three different formats:

CL Fact Sheet

A Consistent Life Fact Sheet is a one-page, both sides, letter sized sheet particularly designed for pro-life audiences (January 2013 edition). Use at pro-life conferences, public witness events, etc.

Promoting a Culture of Life: Connecting Life Issues

A Promoting a Culture of Life: Connecting Life Issues is a one-page, both sides, letter sized sheet of quotations on connections between abortion and other issues, particularly designed for use with pro-life audiences.

Conference flier

A flier suitable for handing out at peace and progressive conferences features quotes on one side, and the Consistently Opposing Killing book flier on the other side.

2011 Annual Report

Our 6-page 2011 Annual Report gives information on Consistent Life activites during 2011.

Poverty and Abortion

Our 4-page paper exploring the relationships between poverty and abortion.

Catholic Flier

The Consistent Life Ethic and the Catholic Tradition - a flier addressing the consistent life ethic from a Roman Catholic perspective.

Historic Peace Churches Flier

The Consistent Life Ethic and the Historic Peace Churches - a flier addressing the consistent life ethic from an Historic Peace Churches perspective.

CL CaféPress Store Lists

A 2-page (1 sheet double-sided) lier showing our CaféPress Store items is great for literature tables. Graphics and prices of a sample of our online store items.

Also available is a 4-pager showing all our CaféPress Store items.

Consistently Opposing Killing book fliers

A flier from the publisher on the Consistently Opposing Killing anthology published in hardback April 30, 2008. Includes 20% conference/event discount code.

A one-page flier (8.5" x 11") with quotations from the book. Originally published as an ad in The Progressive.

A half-sheet flier (5" x 8") with quotations from the book. Originally prepared as a conference program ad.

Consistent Life Ethic related quotes

A one-page sheet of quotes on connections among the life issues. Created for the 2007 Reviving Our Spirits conference, it should be useful in many settings.

Flier versions of ads

These are flier versions of a series of three ads we placed in late 2007.

Latest CL Newsletter

Our Fall 2012 Newsletter.

Sign-up Sheet

When you have an event which features Consistent Life, use this sign-up sheet to collect names and contact information of people who want more information.

video resources on YouTube

Consistent Life has a YouTube channel. We have the following regular videos on it, in addition to video formats for slide shows (see above for those), all of which you are free to download and use for noncommercial use:

Integrating the Culture of Peace and the Culture of Life

This is a presentation by Dr. Rachel MacNair, Director of the Institute for Integrated Social Analysis, Consistent Life's research arm.

Part 1: Presentation (24:30 minutes)

Part 2: Q&A (44:49 minutes)

Killing as Trauma

This is a presentation (41:04 minutes) by Dr. Rachel MacNair, Director of the Institute for Integrated Social Analysis, Consistent Life's research arm. It is Part 1 of a 2-part peace psychology presentation. It is about her research into Perpetration-Induced Traumatic Stress, the trauma felt by those who kill others, such as combat veterans, executioners, and abortion staff.

Killing as Trauma

This is a presentation (32:23 minutes) by Dr. Rachel MacNair, Director of the Institute for Integrated Social Analysis, Consistent Life's research arm.search.html" target="_blank">Institute for Integrated Social Analysis, Consistent Life's research arm. It is Part 2 of a 2-part peace psychology presentation. It details sound psychological principles behind how nonviolence works.

audio resources

Rachel MacNair, Director of our Institute of Integrated Social Analysis, is interviewed by Michael Garcher on the Liberal Bias Media Hour, WVLP, Valparaiso, Indiana. Includes a discussion of her book Perpetration-Induced Traumatic Stress: The Psychological Consequences of Killing and other books she wrote.

Rachel MacNair, Director of our Institute of Integrated Social Analysis, reads from Pro-life Feminism: Yesterday & Today and answers questions on Live from Prairie Lights, an Iowa Public Radio show broadcast from a bookstore.

Rachel MacNair and Stan Becker of Quaker Earthcare Witness are interviewed on Northern Spirit Radio on issues arising from a series of ads Consistent Life and Friends for a Pro-Life Peace Testimony (FPPT) sponsored in Friends Journal about abortion and its relation to other life issues.