ELCA Advocacy

By Ruth Ivory-Moore, Program Director for Environment and Corporate Social Responsibility There are four numbers that matter according to Patricia Espinosa, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC): 1.5 or less – The degrees Celsius...

By guest blogger Judith Roberts, ELCA Program Director, Racial Justice Ministries “History despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.” -Maya Angelou On January 1, 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation freed 3.1...

By the Ruth Ivory-Moore, Program Director for Environment and Corporate Social Responsibility Crisis and urgency bordering on chaos are common themes of most news outlets’ headlines. Violence, climate change, hunger, migration… Are we faced with hopeless situations as the headlines...

from the ELCA Advocacy office in Washington, D.C. – the Rev. Amy E. Reumann, director DISASTER AID | DREAM AND PROMISE ACT | EQUALITY ACT | HUD NONCITIZEN RULE | IMMIGRATION FUNDING | WEBINAR: MOVING FORWARD | GLOBAL FRAGILITY ACT...

U.N. | California | Colorado | Kansas | Minnesota | Nevada | New Mexico | Ohio | Pennsylvania | Washington| Wisconsin Lutheran Office for World Community, United Nations, New York Dennis Frado, director LOWC staff and Bishop Atahualpa Hernández of...

Our advocacy in light of disasters intensified by climate change brought together a group of faith and community leaders for an event hosted in Washington, D.C. by ELCA Advocacy in the spring of 2019. The challenge may be seismic, but...

By Ruth Ivory-Moore, Program Director for Environment and Corporate Social Responsibility The intricacies and diversity of creation are mind-boggling, a reflection and reminder of the power and glory of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit expressed through the created order....

from the ELCA Advocacy office in Washington, D.C. – the Rev. Amy E. Reumann, director DISASTER AID BILL | CENTRAL AMERICAN MINORS PROGRAM | AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN THE FEDERAL BUDGET | FOREIGN ASSISTANCE TO NORTHERN TRIANGLE | GLOBAL CONFLICT PREVENTION...

  U.N. | CALIFORNIA | COLORADO | NEW MEXICO | NORTH CAROLINA | OHIO | PENNSYLVANIA | SOUTHEASTERN SYNOD | WASHINGTON | WISCONSIN *From April 29 to May 1, the Lutheran Office for World Community and state public-policy offices attended...

  -por la Rev. Amy E. Reumann, Directora de defensa de ELCA   Oh Dios, nuestra ayuda en épocas pasadas, nuestra esperanza en los años venideros, Nuestro refugio en la ráfaga de tempestad, y nuestro hogar eterno. ELW 632, stanza...