ELCA Advocacy at the Paris Climate Summit
Mary Minette Mary Minette, Interim Director of Advocacy, traveled to Paris as world leaders met to discuss a global agreement to address climate change. She served as part of a delegation representing ACT Alliance, of which the ELCA is a member. Follow...
“Let’s open our doors” – Impressions from a country which has changed
Daniel Lenski, Lutheran Office for World Community After working for one year at the Lutheran Office for World Community (LOWC) in New York, I was excited to return to Germany and learn how the current refugee situation had changed my...
December Advocacy Update
ELCA Advocacy Lutherans are taking action across the country! Below you will find our monthly State Advocacy Newsletter. Share with your friends! ____________________ Washington, D.C. – Mary Minette, Interim Director of Advocacy www.elca.org/advocacy COP21 PARIS: In the beginning of this month,...
Why the McConnell Rider Matters
Andrew Fuller, Advocacy Coordinator In the midst of the sea that is the $1.15 trillion omnibus spending package facing Congress, there is a campaign-finance rider that would do away with the campaign monetary limits currently set for political party expenditures....
Advent Reflection: Hopeful for families and grateful for my own
Alaide Vilchis Ibarra, Assistant Director, ELCA Migration Policy and Advocacy ”The two chief things are faith and love. Faith receives the good; love gives the good. Faith offers us God as our own; love gives us to our neighbor as...
Love Thy Neighbor: Our Moral Imperative to Support Those Living with HIV/AIDS
By: Nicholas Jaech, Lutheran Office for World Community “Faith-based organizations are essential partners, particularly in the areas of health service delivery and addressing stigma and discrimination. The partnership with faith-based organizations is critical to ending the AIDS epidemic and making...
Praying and working for an end to injustice in Minneapolis
ELCA Advocacy Today, we highlight reflections from Lutheran leaders in Minneapolis, where five people were shot near a demonstration outside the city’s 4th Precinct station on Monday, and additional shots were fired Wednesday morning. Marches, prayer vigils and rallies began...
Thanksgiving Reflection: Freedom from Want
John Johnson, ELCA Program Director for Domestic Policy Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. For my entire career in Washington, D.C., I have claimed Thanksgiving as the holiday that I would stay in Washington, since I fly home to south Georgia...
Living Earth Reflection: Calling on world leaders to protect God’s creation
Mary Minette, Director of Environmental Policy November, 2015 Let us hold fast to the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who has promised is faithful. And let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good...
Can We Change How We Think About Central America?
Patrick Flaherty, Legislative Advocacy Intern Patrick Flaherty, a recent college graduate from Maryland, recently started an internship in the Washington D.C. ELCA Advocacy Office. As ELCA Policy Directors send out blogs and other alerts on legislative action, we are excited...