Publications and periodicals
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A Reformed Understanding of Usury
From Office of the General Assembly
This report and its recommendations are in response to the following referral: 2004 Referral: Item 10-09. On Preparing a Policy Statement on Usury in the United States - From the Presbytery of Utah (Minutes, 2004, Part I, pp. 60, 798-99).
The 216th General Assembly (2004)'s referred Item 10-09, an overture from the Presbytery of Utah as amended (Minutes, 2004, Part I, pp. 60, 798-99), to the Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy to investigate the question of usury in the United States and to prepare a resolution for the 217th General Assembly (2006) that would achieve the following:
1. More ...
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A Report on Economic Security For Older Adults
From Office of the General Assembly
Emphasizing the common good has clear implications for improving the economic security of older Americans. For example, Social Security is not a personal retirement plan but a social insurance program— a compact with other people, other generations, and the United States government. The essence of social insurance is community, that is, we are all in this together as God’s children. It also affirms the responsibility to make health insurance available to all Americans, not just to one’s own family.
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A Soldier Reflects
From Presbyterian Mission Agency—Presbyterian Peacemaking Program
These journal entries come from a young soldier deployed to Iraq during the early days of the war in 2003. He has shared his reflections, anonymously, so that others may know something of what young men and women in the military faced.
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A Study on Islam
From Presbyterian Mission Agency—Interfaith Relations
The 199th General Assembly adopted this document in 1987. It contains helpful perspectives on Islam and Presbyterian-Muslim relations.
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A Summary - How Business Goes to the General Assembly
From Office of the General Assembly—Mid Councils
This file provides an illustration of how business goes to the General Assembly.
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A Theological Understanding between Christians and Jews
From Presbyterian Mission Agency—Theology and Worship
What is the relationship which God intends between Christians and Jews, between Christianity and Judaism? A theological understanding of this relationship is the subject which this paper addresses.
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A Theological Understanding of the Relationship Between Christians and Jews
From Office of the General Assembly
Christians and Jews live side by side in our pluralistic American society. We engage one another not only in personal and social ways but also at deeper levels where ultimate values are expressed and where a theological understanding of our relationship is required. The confessional documents of the Reformed tradition are largely silent on this matter. Hence this paper has been prepared by the church as a pastoral and teaching document to provide a basis for continuing discussion within the Presbyterian community in the Unted States and to offer guidance for the occasions in which Presbyterians and Jews converse, cooperate ...
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A Theology of Compensation: A Study Paper
From Presbyterian Mission Agency—Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy
by Walter Brueggemann
(Minutes, 195th General Assembly (1983), Part I; pp. 694-703
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A Theology of Vocation
From Presbyterian Mission Agency—Preparation for Ministry
Resource publication produced by Dr. Jack L. Stotts, former president of Austin Theological Seminary, which shares insights on issues related to call, vocation and preparation for ministry.
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A brief review of The Christian Faith and The truth Behind 9/11
From Presbyterian Mission Agency—Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy
What does a rationalist do when so many irrational things are happening?
As David Ray Griffin summarizes them, we have a global warming crisis, continued nuclear proliferation, massive death by preventable poverty and growing social inequality in the United States, still the world’s most militarily powerful nation and hence the most responsible for these trends. But why does the US government focus about 58% of our federal budget— inclusively calculated—on a unilateral militarism that alienates most of the world and blocks social progress? The reason given is the “war on terror,” and the defining moment of that continues ...