State Advocacy Spotlight: Illinois
Jennifer De Leon, Lutheran Advocacy – Illinois May 1, 2014 The days are getting longer, so spring must be here. That means that the Illinois Spring legislative session is in full swing and so is Lutheran Advocacy-Illinois. Below are...
State Advocacy Spotlight: Pennsylvania
Tracey DePasquale and The Rev. Amy Reumann, Lutheran Advocacy Ministry in Pennsylvania (LAMPa) Creating A New Conversation about Poverty May 1, 2014 LAMPa is helping Pennsylvania lawmakers get beyond rhetoric so 1.6 million Pennsylvanians can get beyond poverty. Last...
State Advocacy Spotlight: Wisconsin
Cindy Crane, Lutheran Office for Public Policy in Wisconsin May 1, 2014 Human trafficking has been on Wisconsin’s legislative radar over the past year. Recently Governor Scott Walker signed a bill that includes redefining the meaning...
State Advocacy Spotlight: Washington
Elise Scott and Paul Benz, Faith Action Network April 30, 2014 Lutheran advocacy in the state of Washington had a positive and significant impact on the 2014 legislative session. During the course of the session, Faith Action Network advocated...
Living Earth Reflections: Protecting the Waters of the United States
Mary Minette, ELCA Director of Environmental Advocacy April 2014 “I the God of Israel will not forsake them. I will open rivers on the bare heights,and fountains in the midst of the valleys; I will make the wilderness a...
Living Earth Reflections: Choosing Your Fast
Mary Minette, ELCA Director of Environmental Advocacy February 2014 “Is this not the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of injustice, to undo the thongs of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break...
Advocating for compassionate and comprehensive immigration reform
This week, several ELCA bishops, pastors and leaders were in Washington, D.C., for the Lutheran Immigration Leadership Summit, hosted by our partners at Lutheran Immigration Refugee Service. The group visited more than 100 offices on Capitol Hill and the White...
SNAP in South Dakota
By the Rev. Dr. Anna Madsen, OMG: Center for Theological Conversation in Sioux Falls, S.D. The U.S. Census Bureau estimates that 824,082 people called South Dakota home in 2011. In the last four years, the number of people receiving the...
Poverty, policy and the classroom
By Erin Ryono Werner “Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means...
Pastor’s daughter, social worker, advocate
By Erin Clark, MSW, LSW, Nachusa Lutheran Home (seen below with Illinois State Representative Don Moffitt at 2012 Lutheran Day in Springfield) I am grateful to have grown up a pastor’s daughter (for all its craziness) because it generated the strong...