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...
October Advocacy Update
ELCA Advocacy Office, Washington, D.C. The Rev. Amy Reumann, director ELCA.org/advocacy PRAY. FAST. ACT: Our next centering day to #PrayFastAct with the Episcopal Church is Sunday, Oct. 21. The focus this month is on holistic investments in infrastructure programs and...
Passion and fresh ideas from Hunger Advocacy Fellows
By Abbigail Hull, ELCA World Hunger Fellow (L-R) Erica Earnest, Abbigail Hull, Kimberly Jordan Slappey, Paisha Thomas, Sarah Vatne, and Kelsey Johnson Advocacy requires collaboration and a gaze towards the future. It was this vision that created the ELCA Hunger...
Wed. Sept. 26 – National Call-in Rejecting Family Separation and Detention
Approximately 200 children who were separated from their parents at the border have still not been reunified with their parents. Additionally, the zero-tolerance policy that seeks to criminally prosecute all people arriving at the border continues, and there are efforts...
Stress of farm life addressed by Farm Bill
“I was so moved,” said Elena Robles of a talk she heard about stress and farmers near the end of her term as a Hunger Fellow with the ELCA Advocacy office. Farm Bill conferees are engaged in the task of...
September 2018 Advocacy Update
ELCA Advocacy Office, Washington, D.C. The Rev. Amy Reumann, director ...
Freed to Love
By Whylie Cook, ELCA Advocacy 2018 Summer Intern Over this past summer, in response to this zero-tolerance policy, our office started to use the #FreedToLove as a faith-filled response to “love our neighbors as ourselves” (Matthew 22:39). “Faith is active...
Why You Should Vote in 2018?
By Barbara Kufiadan, ELCA Advocacy 2018 Summer Intern In the 2016 Presidential Election, 56% of eligible voters either made it to the voting polls or casted their ballots by mail¹. If this statistic looks low to you, it may come...
August 2018 Advocacy Update
ELCA Advocacy Office, Washington, D.C. The Rev. Amy Reumann, director ...
How are the children?
By Whylie Cook, ELCA Advocacy 2018 Summer Intern Last month, we had the incredible opportunity to present about our advocacy work to a group of 50 high school youth from Wisconsin. Having spent nearly my entire life in Wisconsin,...