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,...
ELCA joins 144 Faith Organizations in calling on Congress to Defend the Johnson Amendment
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America joined 144 Faith organizations in sending the following letter to Chairman Pete Sessions and Ranking Member of the House Rules Committee Representative James McGovern asking them to support amendments in the Appropriations bill...
July 2018 Farm Bill Update
By Elena Robles,Hunger Advocacy Fellow The House of Representatives and Senate have returned from the July 4th Recess, and ELCA Advocacy and the Advocacy network look forward to their next movements to complete the 2018 Farm Bill. The 2018...
July 2018 ELCA Advocacy Update
ELCA Advocacy Office, Washington, D.C. The Rev. Amy Reumann, director ELCA.org/advocacy July 21, PRAY.FAST.ACT.: On Saturday, July 21, we join with The Episcopal Church in our monthly commitment to #PrayFastAct. This month, our focus is on protecting Medicaid, Medicare and...
Stepping Out on Faith in Advocacy
By Barbara Kufiadan, ELCA Advocacy 2018 Summer Intern At a time of much political discourse, it is easy to lose faith in the process of civic engagement. As Christians, we are taught to have faith in each and every situation....
A Restored Moral Narrative
By Rev. Dustin G. Wright, Messiah Lutheran Church in Schenectady, New York About a month back during the Week One action of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, I sat with a diverse group of justice-minded folks...
God’s Word Spoken Publicly, Boldly and Honestly
By the Rev. Amy Reumann, Director of ELCA Advocacy When the Attorney General and the White House Press Secretary invoked St. Paul’s instruction “be subject to the governing authorities” to quell criticism of the Administration policy of separating families seeking...