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...
ELCA Statement on Honduran TPS
On Friday, May 4th, 2018, the Administration announced that it will end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for approximately 60,000 Hondurans. TPS is a legal immigration status that allows citizens from other countries who are present in the U.S. during a...
May 2018 ELCA Advocacy Update
ELCA Advocacy Office, Washington, D.C. The Rev. Amy Reumann, director ELCA.org/advocacy May 21, PRAY. FAST. ACT On Monday, May 21, we join with the Episcopal Church in our monthly commitment to #PrayFastAct. This month, we center to focus...
Celebrating Earth: World Oceans
By Laura Heller, Minister of Word and Service and Creation Care Ministry Coordinator for the Delaware-Maryland Synod. O Lord, how manifold are your works! In wisdom you have made them all; the earth is full of your creatures. 25 Yonder...