Churchwide Assembly Recap: Disability Ministries
For five days, hundreds of ELCA Lutherans descended on Phoenix, AZ, for the 2025 ELCA Churchwide Assembly. This gathering is set to do the business of the church: to receive reports from the churchwide officers, leaders, and units, to consider...
Reflection: Disability and Mental Health Advocacy
John Christensen is a life-long ELCA Lutheran, currently working with the World Council of Churches as a Project Officer in the Churches’ Commission for Health & Healing, and the WCC’S Ecumenical Disability Advocates’ Network (EDAN) I am the son of...
Disability Ministry Report
In our churchwide organization’s recently released God’s Love Made Real strategic recommendations report, research from the Barna Group and Fuller Seminary suggests a path forward for the church to connect with new, young and diverse people in our communities. As the...
Resources Available for the Blind, Visually Impaired and Print-Disabled
Hi friends! Today’s post links with our upcoming newsletter. Be sure to check out Rev. Peter Heide’s interview below, and go to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America newsletter sign up page and subscribe to receive our next and future...
Reflection: Teaching a class on a theology of disability & disability ministries
A little over a year ago I was approached by two of our ELCA seminaries with an invitation to teach a May term class on disability theology and ministry. After a few (okay, several) moments of thinking “Who…me?” and many...
ELCA Disability Ministry Grant Applications are OPEN!
A blessed Pentecost to you all! As noted in a previous post, our grant applications have been open now since May 15th. Here is an overview of the description of the grants for 2025 and guidelines/expectations for applications. This year...