At its very best, the church has led the way on abolition, temperance, homelessness, orphan and foster care, medical services for the least of these, and civil rights. At our best we have built more orphanages and hospitals than any other single organization on this planet. At our best we have taken our God-ordained self-sacrificial posture to places such as Madagascar and Haiti and served as educators, botanists, and midwives. We have embraced our role as the moral compass of society, confronted
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