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May 30, 2014November 30, 2019

June 2014

Divestment is an Investment in Love, Peace, and Justice

Introduction The Presbyterian Church (USA) has been engaged in a decade-long struggle to divest from companies that are profiting from the Israeli

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July 27, 2016October 24, 2019

From Palestine to Portland

Working for Peace in the Middle East at the 222nd General Assembly About a month ago, I was sitting in a large ballroom adjacent to other commissioners and delegates to the 222nd General Assembly, anxiously waiting for the work of

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May 25, 2018September 11, 2019

Environmental Issues at GA 223

August 4, 2016October 24, 2019

Except on Palestine?

Environment/Even the Stones/Social Policy

Environmental Issues at GA 223

May 25, 2018September 11, 2019

by Henry Koenig Stone

5 mins read

An Outline of Twelve Overtures. In 2018, business before the Environmental Issues Committee of the PC(USA) General Assembly includes: engagement with vs. divestment from fossil fuel polluters, environmental racism, carbon pricing, reducing the use of polystyrene, and adopting the “precautionary principle” toward new technologies and strains of genetically engineered crops

Environment

Breaking Down Walls: A Collaborative Response to Climate Change

November 18, 2016October 24, 2019

by Patricia Tull

12 mins read

Originally published on October 27, 2016 at http://www.fossilfreepcusablog.org/blog/breaking-down-walls-a-collaborative-response-to-climate-change Environmental advocates on all sides of the PC(USA)’s divestment debate at June’s General Assembly meeting were dismayed, if not depressed, by the outcome. We entered the week with one widely supported overture from Fossil Free PCUSA and 31 presbyteries, three well supported

Social Policy/Summer 2016

Except on Palestine?

August 4, 2016October 24, 2019

by Noushin Framke

27 mins read

“I didn’t know church could be like this,” said Sam, a teenager who had come to an event in Fellowship Hall. That Sunday after worship, we had Anna Baltzer speaking about why, as a Jewish-American, she had come to be an outspoken critic of Israeli policies, part of her national

Racial Justice/Social Policy/Summer 2016

From Palestine to Portland

July 27, 2016October 24, 2019

by Jessie Light

15 mins read

Environment/Summer 2016

Divestment: Loving Creation and Each Other With Our Whole Selves

June 24, 2016October 24, 2019

by Abby Mohaupt

9 mins read

The author would like to note that the opinions expressed here are the author’s alone. When I came to General Assembly, I’d already spent three years of my life working on divestment from fossil fuels. Fossil Free PCUSA was born in 2013, and in the last year we’ve worked with Presbyterians

Social Policy/Summer 2016

ACSWP Responds to PMEP “Rebuttal” to Just Peace Report

June 15, 2016October 24, 2019

by Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy

16 mins read

In Defense of “Israel-Palestine: For Human Values in the Absence of a Just Peace” In February of 2016, the Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy (ACSWP) released its report, Israel-Palestine: For Human Values in the Absence of a Just Peace, in fulfillment of the mandate given it by the 221st

Environment/Summer 2016

Emission Responsibility Through Investment

June 15, 2016October 24, 2019

by Kerri Allen and Steve Webb

19 mins read

Creating Criteria for Corporate Engagement and Environmental Responsibility From the earliest days of the Reformed Tradition, we have understood ourselves to be political. As God is active in all spheres of life, so are we called to be engaged in the social polis. This is one of the most difficult

Social Policy/Summer 2016

The Presbyterian Church and Boycotts, Divestment, and Sanctions

June 14, 2016October 24, 2019

by Donald Mead

14 mins read

For more than a hundred years now, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and its antecedent organizations have called for the use of economic pressures to challenge injustice, oppression, and other situations which they viewed as morally wrong. Examples include a call to the people of the church to “keep themselves financially

Environment/Social Policy/Summer 2016

Fossil Fuel Divestment: Strengthening Our Response to an Urgent Crisis

June 8, 2016November 18, 2019

by Abby Mohaupt and Colleen Earp

11 mins read

A Perspective from Fossil Free PC(USA) In the shadow of the Paris Accords, rising global temperatures, and changing climates, we are thankful for the many voices discussing climate change in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). We recognize that our denomination has suffered and survived turmoil in the wake of the last

Environment/Social Policy/Summer 2016

A Response to “Divesting from the Sins of Our Past”

June 7, 2016November 18, 2019

by Ron Spross

14 mins read

A Perspective from Faithful Alternatives for Engagement with Climate Change The upcoming General Assembly will consider various overtures calling for PC(USA) action on climate change. Ben Perry has discussed the issues in his article “Divesting from the Sins of our Past”. Two groups within our denomination have been especially active

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