A study of homelessness, it’s causes, and faithful, holistic and hopeful ministry responses of local congregations and higher councils of the denomination. Drawing upon biblical calls to create spaces of… Read more »
This report focuses on two major themes. The first theme is “The Land of Exile,” which explores the difficulties and injustices endured by people with serious mental illness. The experience… Read more »
This report presents the PC(USA) with a concise but comprehensive look at HIV and AIDS thirty years after it made its first blip on our epidemiological radar screens. We begin… Read more »
Women’s access to health care, generally, and to reproductive health care in particular, is one of the bases of women’s equality, especially as women have entered the workforce. Since the… Read more »
Drug use and abuse are two different things and both affect the spiritual life our nation. In response to overtures from seven presbyteries, this report was requested by the 221st… Read more »
This report begins by showing that the war on drugs is not working. While we can’t know what the world would look like if we had not declared war on… Read more »
Those who face reproductive problems tend to focus their lives almost totally on the desperate desire to bear children. Those who vehemently oppose abortion in the name of the fetus’s… Read more »
A 1950 statement described gambling as “an unchristian attempt to get something for nothing or at another’s expense.” Twenty-five years later, a Presbyterian General Assembly adopted a statement calling upon… Read more »
As a result of its research and study, the Task Force on Pornography is convinced that pornography is a powerful symptom of injustice and alienation in human society. Through words… Read more »