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Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy (ACSWP)

The Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy (ACSWP) serves the prophetic calling of the whole Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) by providing the General Assembly with careful studies of pressing moral challenges, media for discussion and discernment of Christian responsibilities, and policy recommendations for faithful action.

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Peace & Justice

Churchwide mailing offers congregations resources to respond to gun violence

Labor Day Story: Workers’ Dignity and Prophetic Voices

A Labor Day prayer for family-sustaining wages

Drawing nearer to justice

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2019 Gun Violence resources packet

The 2019 Gun Violence Resource packet provides congregations and mid-councils a robust package of material to help congregations put thoughts and prayers about gun violence into obedient action. The packet is a mixture of online and print resources compiled by the ministries of Compassion, Peace and Justice over the course of the last decade, but… Read more »

Israel-Palestine: For Human Values in the Absence of a Just Peace

The repeated failure of the peace process in Israel-Palestine is also a failure of national and international politics to address the human rights of a people kept stateless by military occupation and exile. This report reviews the status of the “two-state” solution, but it does not engage in further political solutions-thinking, given the limited support… Read more »

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Presbyterians Today, November/December issue

Creating calm in anxious times

Presbyterians Today | September 2019

Peace is hard to find and often hard to define. But in a world filled with discord, Presbyterians are finding ways to pass the peace of Christ to others, doing what they can to build God’s peaceable kingdom.

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