From Zambia to Washington, D.C: Reflections on HIV and AIDS
By Chloe Strasser As a young daughter of an ELCA missionary and a global health professional in Zambia, I grew up in a community that was forced to confront the crushing realities of HIV and AIDS every day. Zambia is...
Active in the National and Global fight against HIV and AIDS
We close this chapter of the “Advocating on the Road” series (where we explored Lutheran responses to HIV and AIDS in Washington, D.C.) with this blog piece. Like ELCA members we’ve heard from in Washington, D.C., ELCA members across the...
Lutheran voices on HIV and AIDS
Below are links to blogs written by young Lutheran (ELCA and Lutheran World Federation) delegates at the International AIDS Conference. Click to read their thoughts on HIV and AIDS and their reflections of the Conference. We’re grateful for each of...
“HIV — you’re either infected or affected.”
This piece is part of the Washington, D.C. installment of the “Advocating on the Road” blog series. By Kati Miller-Holland Director, Church and Community Ministries Lutheran Social Services of the National Capital Area A text message popped up on my phone recently:...
“We can do a lot as a church…”
This piece is part of the Washington, D.C. installment of the “Advocating on the Road” blog series. By the time the Centers for Disease Control first used the acronym AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) in the fall of 1982, the...
HIV and AIDS in Washington, D.C.
This piece opens the Washington, D.C. insallment of the “Advocating on the Road” series. This month the “Advocating on the Road” series stops in the District of Columbia, where we look at Washington, D.C., not solely as the nation’s capital,...
God of Creation…
We close the Colorado leg of the “Advocating on the Road” blog series with this prayer by two local ELCA pastors, the Rev. Susan Candea and the Rev. Matt Converse God of creation, the mountains declare your majesty, the trees reach up...
Policy needed for renewable energy expansion
This piece is part of the Colorado installment of the “Advocating on the Road” blog series. By Mary Minette, director for environmental education and advocacy, ELCA Washington Office In Genesis 2:15, God calls us to be good stewards of the...
A Leap of Faith
This piece is part of the Colorado installment of the “Advocating on the Road” blog series. By Jack C. Major Holy Cross Lutheran Church, a congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) God saw everything that he had...
A Win for the Environment, Congregation, and Workforce
This piece is part of the Colorado installment of the “Advocating on the Road” blog series. In 2009-10 Our Savior’s Lutheran Church of Denver, Colorado, took innovative steps to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and create jobs for a disadvantaged...