ELCA Advocacy

Mary Minette, Director of Environmental Advocacy This week, several ELCA Lutherans have testified before the Environmental Protection Agency about the proposed rule to cut carbon emissions from power plants. Together, they affirmed why they believe protecting the earth and fighting...

Rev. Stacy Martin, Director of Advocacy Isaiah 41:18 I will open rivers on the bare heights, and fountains in the midst of the valleys; I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water....

Mary Minette, Director of Environmental Advocacy July 2014 ​”We are called to act with justice, We are called to love tenderly, We are called to serve one another, To walk humbly with God.”                         David Haas, “We Are Called”, Evangelical...

Mary Minette, Director of Environmental Advocacy June 2014​ “Neither economic growth that ignores environmental cost nor conservation of nature that ignores human cost is sustainable.  Both will result in injustice and, eventually environmental degradation.  We know that a healthy economy...

Rev. Stacy Martin, Director of Advocacy June 23, 2014 “Mom, are you mad at me?” my 7-year old asked, a little cautiously. The way I’d been communicating – terse sentences in a not-so-warm tone – her question was a legitimate...

Mary Minette, Director of Environmental Advocacy Backsliding ​​Fri. June 6, 2014 My hotel in Bonn has a “green roof”–this is the view out my window of the tiny plants that are keeping stormwater from running off the roof and polluting the nearby...

Mary Minette, ELCA Director of Environmental Advocacy ​May 2014​ ​ ​”Why are you afraid, you of little faith?” – Matthew 8:26 Like the disciples in Matthew, we are only human and often fear the unknown, the disruptive, the strange. But...

Tia Upchurch-Freelove, ELCA Advocacy Office May 14, 2014 ​Last week, faith leaders from across the country traveled to Washington, D.C., to speak out in support of f​​unding for life-saving humanitarian and poverty-focused development assistance (PFDA) programs. Two ELCA pastors, the...

Lauren Blatt, MDiv Student, Lutheran Theological Seminary – Pennsylvania ​May 12, 2014​ ​​​ Last week, the Lutheran Office for World Community (NY) hosted the 2014 Nolde Seminar on Theology and Human Rights. The seminar explores questions about the dignity of...

Mark Carlson, Lutheran Office of Public Policy – California May 2, 2014 Water issues California’s unprecedented drought – continue to receive attention from the Lutheran Office of Public Policy – California (LOPP-CA), as legislators and stakeholders contentiously negotiate a multi-billion...