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America Held Hostage by Gun Violence

America and Its Guns: A Theological Expose by James E. Atwood Purchase from Cascade Books: Wipf & Stock Publishers   America leads the industrialized world in gun deaths. Children in the U.S. are 12 times more likely to die from … Continue reading

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Dream, PC(USA)!

What is your dream for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and the Church Universal? By Emily Hope Morgan   I am convinced that the only real failure the church is experiencing today is a failure to dream. Have we become so … Continue reading

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Divesting from the Private Health Insurance Industry

Health Care Workers, Patients Lead Fight for Divestment from Private Health Insurance Industry: Presbyterian Church and TIAA-CREF Hear Their Call By Katie Robbins   In the midst of a fierce debate on the national level around the Supreme Court’s decision … Continue reading

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The Nuclear Idol and the Genie of Creative Nonviolence

Hiroshima Day August 6, 2012 On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, and then, on August 9, on the city of Nagasaki. Four months after the bombing, 200,000 people, mostly … Continue reading

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