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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...

The movement to end female genital mutilation

by Rosemarie Doucette, an ELCA delegate to the 57th Commission on the Status of Women There was an awesome energy last week at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women! Clearly times are changing for the better as...

Thanks be to God at CSW57

by Hayley Bang, an ELCA delegate to the 57th Commission on the Status of Women The day before attending the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, I read a news article that stated in 2012 one South Korean...

“I can do all things through Christ that strengthens me”

by Candace L. Strand, an ELCA delegate to the 57th Commission on the Status of Women at the United Nations Philippians 4:13 says, “I can do all things through Christ that strengthens me.” As I reflect upon my life as an...

Eliminating violence against women is God’s work

by Mary Hansen-Joyce, ELCA seminarian and delegate to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women I am honored and pleased to submit my thoughts and impressions about the 57th United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. Four...

Bringing a message home

Maria Murerwa is a young adult delegate from the ELCA to the 57th Commission on the Status of Women at the United Nations. Click here or the picture above to listen to Maria share insights from her experience at the...

Many Stories, One Voice

by Joanna Hertzog, ELCA seminarian and delegate to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women I came to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women with my own stories of the way violence and abuse has...

One prayer

Linda Forsberg is an ELCA pastor and a delegate to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women this week. The Commission on the Status of Women is an annual gathering that seeks to evaluate progress on gender equality....