This digest is a compilation of the social witness-related items that came before the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) 220th General Assembly in 2012.
Keep ReadingIntroduction The Presbyterian Church (USA) has been engaged in a decade-long struggle to divest from companies that are profiting from the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza Strip. After an extensive corporate engagement process, the Committee
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Financial Anxieties Block Justice Overtures at General Assembly By Joann Haejong Lee, 2012 Teaching Elder Commissioner and Moderator for Committee on Immigration Issues View and Print as PDF. I grew up in a working class family of immigrants. Even though my parents worked twelve hours a day, six
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A Young Presbyterian’s Reflection on General Assembly By Emily Morrell, 2012 Young Adult Advisory Delegate (YAAD) View and Print as PDF. My presbytery is small, tiny, actually. In fact, after serving on my presbytery’s youth council for four years, with a stint as moderator, I’m pretty sure I
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By Laura Phillips, Ruling Elder and Moderator for the Committee on Peacemaking and International Issues View and Print as PDF. As a rookie commissioner and committee moderator for the Peacemaking and International Issues committee (not the Middle East), I came to the 220th General Assembly eager to listen,
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What You May Not Have Heard About By Nancy Ramsay, 2012 Teaching Elder Commissioner and Moderator for the Committee on Social Justice Issues View and Print as PDF. This summer, I had the privilege of moderating the Social Justice Issues Committee of the 220th General Assembly. Not surprisingly
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The Why and Will We Questions First By Chris Iosso, Unbound General Editor View and Print as PDF. Who cares about the General Assembly and who cares about the denomination as an institution? Those questions are posed, often by those dissatisfied with the outcomes of particular votes, against
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Two Contrasting Narratives of What Happened at the General Assembly Reveal a Critical Generation Gap By Patrick David Heery, Unbound Managing Editor View and Print as PDF. Talk to enough social justice-minded Presbyterians and you’ll likely hear two distinct interpretations of the 2012 PC(USA) General Assembly. Narrative One:
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On Divestment at the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) 220th General Assembly By Rifat Odeh Kassis Unbound welcomes this voice from Kairos Palestine as a means for widening and deepening the conversation around the appropriate measures to bring about peace and justice in Israel and Palestine. Unbound also welcomes further discussion
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Important Facts to Consider The following article is from Presbyterians for Middle East Peace. Unbound welcomes this voice on positive investment as a means for widening and deepening the conversation around the appropriate measures to bring about peace and justice in Israel and Palestine. Unbound also welcomes further discussion of
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Are PC(USA) Ties to Humana a Possible Obstacle to Divestment? By Rev. Bebb Wheeler Stone, PhD View and Print as PDF. On July 7th, 2012, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) became “the first major institution to take steps towards divestment from private health insurance.”[1] But a possible conflict of
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This digest is a compilation of the social witness-related items that came before the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) 220th General Assembly in 2012. For each piece of business, the digest summarizes the Assembly action, the content of each proposal and its amendments, and (in some cases) the key points made in
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