Ecumenical Call to Common Prayer
As we approach the twentieth anniversary of our full communion agreement, “Called to Common Mission,” we give thanks to God for the partnership we share with The Episcopal Church. In the coming months, we will pray for and with...
Interfaith Engagement in an Era of Social Distancing
Shoulder to Shoulder is a national coalition-based campaign of religious denominations and faith-based organizations and communities that are committed to ending discrimination and violence against Muslims in the United States by equipping, connecting, and mobilizing faith leaders to effectively...
Ecumenism on Mars
© mars.nasa.gov By The Rev. Paul S. Tché Have I been to Mars? Of course not. I understand no one has yet. We—by which I mean human beings—have sent robots to explore the aerosphere, atmosphere, and surface of...
2020 ELCA Letter of Solidarity with Jewish Partners and the Asian American Community
Michael Fromm, Jewish Council for Public Affairs Chair David Bernstein, Jewish Council for Public Affairs President and CEO Dear President Bernstein and Chairman Fromm: The Consultative Panel on Lutheran-Jewish Relations of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America joins...
We Will Get Through This Together
By Kristen L. Opalinski “We will get through this together.” Over the past month, we’ve heard these words spoken countless times by health officials, governors, mayors, presidents, prime ministers, and journalists – but also doctors, nurses, grocery clerks, and other...
Glimpses of Clarity, Not 2020 Vision
By Kathryn Mary Lohre At every ecumenical and inter-religious meeting or event I attend, the conversation invariably turns to the rapidly changing ecumenical and inter-religious landscape. At times it is raised as a caution: we cannot continue down the same...