ELCA Advocacy

Ulysses III Ulysses III from ELCA Young Adult Cohort AIDS 2014 reflects on their recent group trip to the 20th International AIDS Conference in Melbourne, Australia! You can check out the full blog article on their website. “As with most things...

Mary Minette, Director of Environmental Advocacy Yesterday, Lutherans continued their testimonies at the Environmental Protection Agency. Our speakers were notably engaging, energized and forthright in their discussion on how climate change is an important matter in their community. Their testimonies...

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...