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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...

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...

Climate Justice for all God’s Creation: How you can speak out now!

Mary Minette, Director of Environmental Advocacy Last week, Lutheran leaders across the US testified before the EPA to publicly proclaim that Climate Change is a moral dilemma, and to announce their support for the proposed Clean Power Plan.  “For us...