Resources

Social Creed for the 21st Century

cover photo of social creed dvd: before and after

Rec­om­mended Web Resources

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Pres­by­ter­ian Social Wit­ness Pol­icy Com­pi­la­tion
The Pres­by­ter­ian Social Wit­ness Pol­icy Com­pi­la­tion is a com­pendium of social wit­ness poli­cies adopted by the Gen­eral Assem­blies of the Pres­by­ter­ian Church (U.S.A.) and its pre­de­ces­sor denom­i­na­tions.  The Pres­by­ter­ian Social Wit­ness Pol­icy Com­pi­la­tion presents each pol­icy state­ment, res­o­lu­tion, or com­mis­sion­ers’ res­o­lu­tion in groups of sim­i­lar actions. Its excerpts sum­ma­rize the teach­ing min­istry of the church on given top­ics and con­nect them to the church’s larger vision of social righteousness.


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www.globethics.net/
Globethics.net is a global net­work of per­sons and insti­tu­tions inter­ested in var­i­ous fields of applied ethics. It offers access to a large num­ber of resources on ethics, espe­cially through its lead­ing global dig­i­tal ethics library and facil­i­tates col­lab­o­ra­tive web-based research, con­fer­ences, online pub­lish­ing and infor­ma­tion sharing.


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http://phewacommunity.org/home.html
This PHEWA online resource cen­ter pro­vides infor­ma­tion, prac­ti­cal resources, and con­tacts for each of the ten PHEWA net­works. High­lights include 12 step resources for indi­vid­u­als and con­gre­ga­tions strug­gling with addic­tion; exten­sive resources for deal­ing with domes­tic vio­lence (such as safety plans for chil­dren and a report on the inter­sec­tion with human traf­fick­ing); AIDS/HIV wor­ship resources; and sup­port resources for mil­i­tary veterans.


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Union Sem­i­nary Quar­terly Review
USQR was founded in 1939 as a plat­form for inspired and socially-engaged reli­gious thought. Promi­nent con­trib­u­tors in the early days of the review included Rein­hold Neibuhr, Paul Tillich, and Mar­tin Buber. As a con­tin­u­a­tion of the intel­lec­tual rigor and cre­ative voice that char­ac­ter­ized our rich his­tory, USQR has expanded its vision to embrace a mul­ti­cul­tural out­look in the­ol­ogy and an inter­dis­ci­pli­nary approach to the study of reli­gion. Reflect­ing this new per­spec­tive, it has fea­tured arti­cles and book reviews by estab­lished and emer­gent bib­li­cal schol­ars, his­to­ri­ans, ethi­cists, the­olo­gians, and other aca­d­e­mic, church and social com­men­ta­tors.

Study Papers and Pol­icy Statements

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Rec­om­mended Books

 

  • Cobb, John B. Jr (ed.). Pro­gres­sive Chris­tians Speak: A Dif­fer­ent Voice on Faith and Pol­i­tics. Louisville: West­min­ster John Knox Press, 2003.
  • Dom­men, Edward and James D. Pratt (eds.). John Calvin Redis­cov­ered: The Impact of His Social and Eco­nomic Thought. Louisville: West­min­ster John Knox Press, 2007.
  • Harper, Nile. Jour­neys into Jus­tice: Reli­gious Col­lab­o­ra­tives Work­ing for Social Trans­for­ma­tion. Min­neapo­lis: Bas­com Hill Pub­lish­ing Group, 2009.
  • Hedges, Chris. Los­ing Moses on the Free­way: The 10 Com­mand­ments in Amer­ica. New York: Free Press, 2005.
  • Hes­sel, Dieter T. (ed.). Social Themes of the Chris­t­ian Year: A Com­men­tary on the Lec­tionary. Philadel­phia: The Geneva Press, 1983.
  • ——–The Church’s Pub­lic Role. Grand Rapids, Michi­gan: William B. Eerd­mans Pub­lish­ing Com­pany, 1993.
  • How­ell, Leon and Vivian Lin­der­mayer (eds.). Ethics in the Present Tense: Read­ings from Chris­tian­ity and Cri­sis (1966–1991). New York: Friend­ship Press, 1991.
  • Iosso, Chris­t­ian and Eliz­a­beth Hinson-Hasty (eds.). Prayers for the New Social Awak­en­ing: Inspired by the New Social Creed. Louisville: West­min­ster John Knox Press, 2008.
  • Kre­hbiel, Jef­frey K. Reflect­ing with Scrip­ture on Com­mu­nity Orga­niz­ing. Chicago: Acta Pub­li­ca­tions, 2010.
  • Lou, Martha and Lem­mon Stohlman. John With­er­spoon: Par­son, Politi­cian, Patriot. Louisville: West­min­ster John Knox Press, 1976.
  • Owensby, Wal­ter L. Eco­nom­ics for Prophets: A Primer on Con­cepts, Real­i­ties, and Val­ues in Our Eco­nomic Sys­tem. Grand Rapids, Michi­gan: William B. Eerd­mans Pub­lish­ing Com­pany, 1988.
  • Peters, Rebecca Todd and Eliz­a­beth Hinson-Hasty (eds.). To Do Jus­tice: A Guide for Pro­gres­sive Chris­tians. Louisville: West­min­ster John Knox Press, 2008.
  • Stone, Ronald H. and Dana Wilbanks (eds.). The Peace­mak­ing Strug­gle: Mil­i­tarism & Resis­tance. Lan­ham, MD: Uni­ver­sity Press of Amer­ica, 1985.
  • Stout, Jef­frey. Blessed Are the Orga­nized: Grass­roots Democ­racy in Amer­ica. Prince­ton: Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity Press, 2010.
  • The Poverty Ini­tia­tive. A New and Unset­tling Force: Reignit­ing Rev. Dr. Mar­tin Luther King Jr.‘s Poor People’s Cam­paign. New York: The Poverty Ini­tia­tive, 2009.
Globe graphic by Flavio Take­moto.
Hand on Bible photo by “abcdz2000.”