Official Statements
These pages present statements and guidelines discussed, approved and voted by the church leadership since 1980.
- Introduction
- Mission Statement
- Abuse and Family Violence
- AIDS
- Assault Weapons
- Birth Control
- Caring for Creation — A Statement on the Environment
- An Affirmation of Creation
- Response for an Affirmation of Creation
- Creation: The Bible’s Worldview
- Care for the Dying
- Chemical Use, Abuse, and Dependency
- Child Sexual Abuse
- Climate Change
- Competition
- Drugs
- Environment
- Stewardship of the Environment
- An Affirmation of Family
- Family Violence
- Freedom of Speech and Defamation of Religion
- Gambling
- Global Poverty
- Health-Care Institutions
- Health and Healing
- Holy Scriptures
- Home and Family
- Homelessness and Poverty
- Homosexuality
- Human Cloning
- Human Relations
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- Kosovo
- Literacy
- Marriage
- Nurture and Protection of children
- Peace
- Call for Peace
- Peace Message to All People of Good Will
- Pornography
- Racism
- Religious Freedom
- Religious Liberty, Evangelism, and Proselytism
- Religious Minorities and Religious Freedom
- Roman Catholicism
- Same-Sex Unions
- Sexual Behavior
- Sexually Transmitted Diseases
- Smoking and Ethics
- Smoking and Tobacco
- Spirit of Prophecy
- Spiritual Renewal Impacts Social Change
- Temperance Principles and Acceptance of Donations
- Theological and Academic Freedom and Accountability
- Tolerance
- Values Statement
- Violence against women and girls
- War in Congo
- War in Iraq
- Well-being and Value of Children
- Women’s Issues
- Year 2000