This action of the 225th General Assembly (2022) is a report from the Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy (ACSWP) in the aftermath of the war in Afghanistan, our country's longest war. It includes a call for self-examination, confession and repentance and recommended actions to be taken by the General Assembly, national and local governments, congregations and members.
This action of the 225th General Assembly (2022) in response to a report from the Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy (ACSWP) provides an update to the statistics included in the 2010 "Gun Violence, Gospel Value: Mobilizing in Response to God's Call." It also provides new recommendations including the implementation of the PCUSA's 10-year campaign, the Decade to End Gun Violence.
The Manual for the 226th General Assembly (2024) includes:
(as of February 16, 2024)
미국장로교 회의 진행 법 Parliamentary Procedures in the PCUSA - Updated 2022
미국장로교 PC(USA)의 교단 정책으로서 모든 교회 교인들, 임원들, 교인이 아닌 고용인들, 회중의 자원봉사자들, 치리회, 및 교회의 본체는 언제든지 목회, 고용, 그리고 직업적인 관계에서 청렴함을 유지한다. 성적비행에 관련된 자는 성서의 원칙을 위반한 것이요, 또한 목회, 고용, 그리고 직업적인 관계를 위반한 것이다. 교회 교인, 임원, 직원, 혹은 자원 봉사자의 성적비행을 절대 용인 혹은 용납할 수 없다.
Final version of Church Discipline - as of January 2022.
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The 222nd General Assembly (2016) created a Rules of Discipline Task Force, to be charged with revising the entire Rules of Discipline to make the Rules of Discipline more accessible to the church, to preserve and enhance the accountability of councils and individuals to the church, to expand the role of mediation and alternate dispute resolution, and to provide flexibility in crafting …
Both the UPCUSA and PCUS approached the Vietnam War from a Just War position. At the beginning of the war, both accepted that the U.S. entered the war to resist Communist aggression. They affirmed U.S. efforts at peace, but also counseled military restraint and negotiation. The denominations promoted the right of dissent and conscience regarding the war, and eventually came to call for U.S. withdrawal from the war.
The commitment of the church to peace and reconciliation has a central role in Christian vocation. For Presbyterians, it is a matter of creedal standing, briefly yet powerfully set forth in the Brief Statement of Faith (1991) cited above, and outlined at greater length in The Confession of 1967. Wording from both confessions is echoed in the title of this report. We acknowledge not only a "fearful" but a violent world, even as we hear God's call in our time to take new risks to challenge our country's over-reliance on military might and under-investment in "the things that make for …