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...
ELCA Advocacy Update- November 2015
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 FEDERAL SPENDING DEAL: This month, members of the...
ELCA Advocacy Update- October 2015
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 2015 ADVOCACY CONVENING: Last month ELCA, Episcopal and...
Reconciling a Culture of Peace and a Responsibility to Protect
Nicholas Jaech, Lutheran Office for World Community “In a new millennium, let us rediscover faith. Not in order to use it against others like has happened so many times in our history, but to understand our reason for existing in...
ELCA Advocacy Update- September 2015
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 GOD’S WORK. OUR HANDS. OUR VOICES!: “God’s work....
Connecting Mental Health and Hunger
Leah Shelton, ELCA Advocacy One in five children in the United States experience a mental disorder each year. That’s nearly 16 million children every year. Mental disorders can be extremely debilitating, leading to isolation, self-harm, and a life-long stigma of...