ELCA Advocacy

Dear friends, It’s not a secret that the political campaign season is underway in America. Turn on your TV, open a newspaper, or, depending on where you are, walk down your street and you’ll see politicians and their staff eagerly...

We certainly live in frustrating times.  Reverberations of the struggling U.S. economy are felt across the globe through unemployment, homelessness, hunger, and injustice.  The economic downturn has thrust many once-stable families on the cusp of poverty, and further hurt those...

Greetings from our nation’s capital!  I join the ELCA Washington Office as the new Director for Grassroots Advocacy and Communication, where I look forward to working with Christians as we connect faith and public life. Humbled by Christ’s constant inclusion...

Submitted by Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy The Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy is working with the Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth on an initiative to impact the issue of childhood obesity in Virginia. The Center is raising...

By Sarah Dreier, Legislative Representative for International Policy and Advocacy for the ELCA Washington Office and the Episcopal Church Office of Government Relations I’m the new Legislative Representative for International Policy and Advocacy for the ELCA Washington Office and the...

By Amy Johnson, director, Lutheran Office for Public Policy in Wisconsin This month Wisconsin students will return to their classrooms and take on the challenges of the year ahead. Far too many students will also be battling hunger while they...

By Mark Carlson, director, Lutheran Office of Public Policy – California In California, a couple of well-known sayings are imprinted in the minds of those who care about water.  The most famous is attributed to Mark Twain: “Whiskey is for...

By Amy Reumann, Director, Lutheran Advocacy Ministry in Pennsylvania The federal budget matters…in order to preserve clean water in Pennsylvania where a new American gold rush is on. This time it is to mine natural gas trapped a mile underground...

By Mary Minette, ELCA Director of Environmental Education and Advocacy This month our series on the federal budget is focusing on how water programs may be affected by cuts in the federal budget.  The opening reflection focused on water quality...

In solidarity with our brothers and sisters serving, working, and living in Sudan, the ELCA encourages you to pray for peace for all of Sudan as South Sudan approaches its independence from the North on July 9th, 2011. Here is...