Pressure on vulnerable people amplified by shutdown
After another week of stalled budget negotiations, the U.S. is now in the third week of the partial government shutdown. Various media outlets and agencies have covered important points over the past few days, such as the 800,000 workers left...
Lutherans in the 116th Congress
by Andrew Fuller, Advocacy Coordinator The start of the 116th Congress begins this week. As five new Lutheran lawmakers are sworn in to the U.S. House of Representatives, check out some of the Lutheran legislators who will serve our country...
A different side of Washington
by the Rev. Amy E. Reumann Today the 116th Congress is sworn in to serve our nation. Before members get down to the business of government, many mark the opening of a new Congress with a bipartisan and interfaith prayer...
The federal budget and migration: An update
by Alaide Vilchis Ibarra, Program Director, Migration Policy I learned about the importance of the federal budget during the government shutdown in 2013 by seeing my friends having to halt their work supporting refugees, trafficking victims and unaccompanied children. With...
Pathway to equality with justice in Universal Declaration of Human Rights
by Christine Mangale, Program Director, Lutheran Office for World Community A fundamental document turns 70 years of age on Dec. 10, 2018. Translated into 500 languages, its 30 articles guarantee and affirm rights, freedom, inherent dignity and equality of all...
December Advocacy Update
ELCA Advocacy Office, Washington, D.C. The Rev. Amy Reumann, director ...
Dedicated to the common good: ELCA voted and ELCAvotes
by the Rev. Amy Reumann, Director of ELCA Advocacy Election Day is behind us, and we have much to give thanks for as a nation and as a church. As citizens, we have come together to vote in midterm Congressional...
Facing creation care challenge with hope: We act
By Ruth Ivory-Moore, Program Director, Environment and Corporate Social Responsibility In 1993, the ELCA Social Statement, “Caring for Creation: Vision, Hope and Justice” [Caring for Creation], described: “The earth is a planet of beauty and abundance; the earth system is...
November Advocacy Update
ELCA Advocacy Office, Washington, D.C. The Rev. Amy Reumann, director ...
The continued struggle for voting rights
Our guest blogger, the Rev. Kwame Pitts, helped draft and present the ELCA Social Policy Resolution “Voting Rights to All Citizens” adopted by the Churchwide Assembly in 2013. She shares her poetically presented thoughts in 2018 here. THE RESPONSIBILITY I...