Let’s put food banks out of business
Imagine your congregation without a food shelf. Imagine it without regular food drives. Imagine it without free community meals. At first, it might make you nostalgic for the afternoons you’ve spent packing grocery bags for the pantry with your fellow...
Living Earth Reflection: Protecting the Waters of the United States
Mary Minette, program director, Environmental Policy and Education May 2015 “But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.” Amos 5:24 Water as a metaphor flows through scripture, perhaps because of the essential role water plays...
Join me in prayer and action this Mother’s Day
By The Rev. Corrine Denis, Lutheran Campus Center of Winona, Minn. I write on this Mother’s Day to speak out about an issue that is close to my heart: childhood hunger in the United States. I speak not only as a...
ELCA Advocacy Update – May 2015
Washington, D.C. Advocacy Director, Stacy Martin www.elca.org/advocacy Earth Day 2015: ELCA Advocacy took action on Earth Day to support clean water in our communities. The Environmental Protection Agency is working on a rule to protect streams and wetlands that connect...
Living Earth Reflection: Building more resilient communities in a climate-challenged world
“Let each of you look not to your own interests, but to the interests of others. Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus, who though he was in the form of God, did not regard...
Learning about God’s call to care for all who cry out
Erin Haugen, Legislative Intern I grew up in a quiet, safe, suburban neighborhood in Minnesota. I was fortunate enough to live in a place where crime and exploitation seemed like things that happened far away, to other people. To paint...
ELCA Advocacy Update – April 2015
ELCA Advocacy Lutherans are taking action across the country! Below you will find our monthy State Advocacy Newsletter. Share with your friends! ——————————————— Washington, D.C. Advocacy Director, Stacy Martin www.elca.org/advocacy Congressional budget resolution: This year, the U.S. Congress is working...
Lenten reflection: The loving call to do justice
Dennis Frado, Director, Lutheran Office for World Community The Gospel liberates from sin, death, and evil and motivates the Church to care for neighbor and the earth. – “The Church in Society: A Lutheran Perspective” Lent always refocuses me on...
Lenten Reflection: Creating something from nothing
Stacy Martin, Director for Advocacy “They all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces of bread and fish. The number of the men who had eaten was five thousand.” Mark 6:42-44 (NRSV) Like Thomas...
Living Earth Reflections: Water for the City
Mary Minette, Director for Environmental Education and Advocacy “Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb through the middle of the street of...