Documents and Resources
Documents & Resources
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The Report of the Middle East Study Committee
Issued Dec. 20, 2012
Increasingly, we find that we are living in a world with numerous walls and barriers. These are walls that force us to live in sometimes small and isolated compartments. These ...
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The Role of the Constitution in the Life of the Church
Issued Feb. 22, 2012
An Address at Columbia Theological Seminary on April 26, 2002, by Clifton Kirkpatrick, Stated Clerk of the General Assembly. A People of the Book There is no group of Christian ...
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The Spiritual Discipline and Art of Christian Listening
Issued April 23, 2012
Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s “The Ministry of Listening” Life Together “Christians have forgotten that the ministry of listening has been committed to us by Him who is Himself the great listener and ...
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The Substitute Motion
Issued Nov. 11, 2014
The substitute motion is a form of amendment applied when the desire is to amend a motion in several different, nonconsecutive places. It also is used when the text to ...
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Transformation of Churches and Society Through Encounter with New Neighbors
Issued Dec. 1, 1999
This resolution is the result of a development process that included wide consultation and participation throughout the church, drawing upon biblical sources and insights from the Reformed tradition in giving ...
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Transforming Families with Study Guide
Issued Dec. 1, 2004
The 209th General Assembly (1997) called for an examination of changing families and social structures that support families, focusing especially on their effects on children, in order to develop principles ...