Advocacy Summary of FY15 Spending Package
This week, Congress prepares to pass a bill to fund the government. ELCA Advocacy is working to support funding proposals and legislation focused on justice and love for our neighbor. Together with you, we strive to create room for practical...
ELCA State Advocacy Update: December 2014
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 Seeking Justice and Reconciliation in this season of Advent: This...
From Lima, Peru: The faith community stands ready for a real commitment to addressing climate change
ELCA Director of Environmental Advocacy, Mary Minette Photo courtesy of LWF/Sean Hawkey, ©2014 Sean Hawkey, all rights reserved In December 2015, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will meet in Paris to discuss and launch a new international...
Remembering the Bhopal disaster of 1984
Mary Minette, Director of Environmental Advocacy The earth dries up and withers, the world languishes and withers; the heavens languish together with the earth. The earth lies polluted under its inhabitants; for they have transgressed laws, violated the statutes, broken...
Living Earth Reflections: November 2014
Mary Minette, Director of Environmental Advocacy “Happy are those who consider the poor, the Lord delivers them in the day of trouble. The Lord protects them and keeps them alive; they are called happy in the land. You do not...
ELCA State Advocacy Update: November 2014
ELCA Advocacy Lutherans are taking action across the country! Below you will find our monthy State Advocacy Newsletter. Share with your friends, and download the document in the PDF version! ——————————————— Washington, D.C. Advocacy Director, Stacy Martin www.elca.org/advocacy Domestic Violence...
Stand against Domestic Violence this Month!
Tia Upchurch-Freelove, ELCA Advocacy Director of Communications ” It is not my enemies who taunt me—I could bear that; it is not adversaries who deal insolently with me—I could hide from them. But it is you, my equal, my companion,...
ELCA State Advocacy Update: October 2014
ELCA Advocacy Lutherans are taking action across the country! Below you will find our monthy State Advocacy Newsletter. Share with your friends, and download the document in the PDF version! — Washington, D.C. Advocacy Director, Stacy Martin www.elca.org/advocacy People’s Climate March – On...
Living Earth Reflections: This month we march out of love for our neighbors and God’s earth
Mary Minette, Director of Environmental Advocacy ”Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race...
ELCA participating in NY Climate Events in September
Mary Minette, Director of Environmental Advocacy & Christine Mangale, Assistant to the Director Lutheran Office for World Community in New York UN Climate Summit Lutheran Office for World Community (LOWC) will host a delegation of Lutheran World Federation Youth that will come to attend the...