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...
ELCA Advocacy Update- August 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 EPA CLEAN POWER PLAN ANNOUNCED: This week, President...
American by Grace, Compassionate by Action
Sean Bonawitz, ELCA Advocacy Rethinking Perspectives of Migration in The Northern Triangle We do not choose where we live, who our families are, or the time that we are born into. We are thrown into the mystery of life. Some...
ELCA Advocacy Update – July 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. Advocacy Director, Stacy Martin www.elca.org/advocacy Vatican Encyclical “Laudato Si”: On June 18 Vatican officials released...
Living Earth Reflection: We have no such right
Mary Minette, program director, Environmental Policy and Education June 2015 But ask the animals, and they will teach you; the birds of the air, and they will tell you; ask the plants of the earth, and they will teach you;...