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June 2018 ELCA Advocacy Update

ELCA Advocacy Office, Washington, D.C. The Rev. Amy Reumann, director                                                              ELCA.org/advocacy June 21, PRAY.FAST.ACT.: On Thursday, June 21, we join with The Episcopal Church in our monthly commitment to #PrayFastAct. This month our focus is on disaster preparedness....

Stand Up, Take Your Mat

By The Rev. Donna Simon, St. Mark Hope and Peace Lutheran Church   Natalie is married and has three children. She works at Popeye’s, hoping for full time but subject to the scheduling whims of management. Natalie was in the...

Follow the Money: Moral Conversations on the National Budget

By The Rev. Dr. Stephen P. Bouman, Executive Director, ELCA Domestic Mission Unit    “Did you know that currently 53 cents of every federal discretionary dollar goes to military spending and only 15 cents is spent on anti-poverty programs?…Instead of...

Explaining Policies separating children and families

By Alaide Vilchis Ibarra, Program Director for Migration Policy   “Because we understand each person to be made in God’s image — without distinction based on race, ethnicity, gender, economic class or country of origin — and have heard God’s...

Paris Rulebook: We Have to Get It Right!

By Ruth Ivory Moore, ELCA Advocacy Program Director for Environment and Energy.   “He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your...

The Paris Agreement and the Talanoa Dialogue

By Ruth Ivory Moore, Program Director for Environment and Energy   “Nations should seek their own common good in the context of the global common good. International bodies should work for the welfare of all nations.”                                                                                            ELCA social statement:...

The Poor People’s Campaign: Standing against Systemic Racism, Poverty and Voter Suppression

By Pastor Betty Landis, member of Grace Lutheran Church, Evanston, IL   “The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.” Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “Where do we go...

2018 Farm Bill Update: H.R. 2- Agriculture and Nutrition Act of 2018

  The Farm Bill is an omnibus legislation that helps to fund our national and global food programs. Reauthorized every five years, the Farm Bill is among legislation that Congress needs to pass this year. To learn more, check out...

The Poor People’s Campaign: A Time for Lutheran Action

By The Rev. Amy Reumann, Director of ELCAadvocacy   They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds. Dinos Christianopoulos On Monday, May 14, 2018, thousands of people of faith and low-wage workers will gather in Washington, D.C....

Celebrating Mother’s Day: Supporting a Strong Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program(SNAP)

By Elena Robles, Hunger Advocacy Fellow Today we celebrate Mother’s Day and mark the many ways in which those in a mothering role enrich and bless our lives. Mothers throughout the Bible were often strong and tenacious women who endured...