Confession of faith -- Religion and the public schools -- Pro-human family : another look at abortion -- Children -- Human rights and civil rights -- Homosexuality and same-gender unions -- Crime and the penal system -- The war on drugs : is anybody winning? -- Immigration -- Responding to sweatshops -- The globalization of economic life -- Should debt be forgiven? -- The church and environmentalism -- The global population crisis -- A short political history of the American Christian right.