Resources

In addition to our regular newsletters, IRD produces a number of publications addressing specific issues facing the Church and the world. Those publications, on issues as diverse as the war in Iraq, the conflict in the Middle East, and the membership struggles facing our churches, can be found here. Also included is IRD's founding document, Christianity and Democracy, which gives, in depth, the perspective IRD brings to bear as we seek to reform the social witness of the churches.

• IRD's Mount Nebo Papers
   
• IRD's Church Alliance for a New Sudan (CANS)
   
• Become Aware & Take Action
   
• IRD Fact Sheets on LGBT Groups and additional links to resources on Marriage & Sexuality
   
• Christian-Muslim Dialogue: A Guide for Churches 
   
• Radical Islam Resource List
   
• Christianity and Democracy
   
• Be Steadfast: A Letter to Confessing Christians
   
• Chart of Mainline Church Membership Decline
   
• Twenty-One Theses to Guide Christian Engagement With the Middle East
   
• Discernment Needed: What Mainstream Christians Know and Don't Know about Possible War with Iraq
   
• Strange Yokefellows: The National Council of Churches and its Growing Non-Church Constituency
   
• Human Rights Advocacy in the Mainline Protestant Churches (2000-2003): A Critical Analysis 
   
• A Time For Candor: Mainline Churches and Radical Social Witness
  (IRD Archive Document - Published 1983)