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My statement released to the OGA: ‘Practice what you preach’

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By Mateen Elass The PCUSA Office of the General Assembly has been quite busy the last few days, issuing public statements calling on all sorts of people and institutions to act with regard to the atrocities in Mosul, Iraq, and the lethal conflict between Israel and Hamas. These are matters about which I know something,…

PCUSA’s Social Witness policy now advocates for comprehensive progressive tax reform

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DETROIT, Mich. – In approving “Tax Justice: A Christian Response to a New Gilded Age” the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) seeks a re-write of the U.S. tax code to make it expressly “progressive, transparent, sustainable and adequate.” Chris Iosso, Presbyterian Mission Agency staffer and an ordained PCUSA minister who continues to accept…

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