ELCA World Hunger

    Nearly 500 years ago, the young monk Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to a church door in Wittenberg, Germany, and kicked off the movement that would become the Protestant Reformation. The theological disputes that followed have been...

    In its most recent report on food insecurity and nutrition around the world, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) highlighted a troubling fact: after a decade of decline, the rate of hunger in the...

  NOTE: This post was originally published on the Lutheran Disaster Response blog. This has been a devastating season of hurricanes for our neighbors throughout the Caribbean and the U.S. South. Hurricanes Harvey and Irma have already left a path...

    Each year, the United States Census Bureau updates the statistics on poverty, health care coverage, and the median income for Americans. This research gives us not only a glimpse into how the country is faring in terms of...

  “Disasters are a leading cause of hunger, affecting all aspects of food security: economic and physical access to food, availability and stability of supplies, and nutrition,” according to the World Food Programme. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the...

There is a Time for Everything, and a Season for Every Activity Under Heaven. Ecclesiastes 3:1 Pointing Forward: So let’s consider the 5 P’s of gardening: Planning Planting Perspiring Picking, and Putting to bed. In previous posts, we’ve planned, we’ve...

There is a Time for Everything, and a Season for Every Activity Under Heaven. Ecclesiastes 3:1 Pointing Forward: So let’s consider the 5 P’s of gardening: Planning Planting Perspiring Picking, and Putting to bed. In previous posts, we’ve planned, we’ve...

  “Isn’t that kind of…over?” It is a surprisingly common reaction to my telling people what I do. My name is Savanna Sullivan, and I am the Program Associate for the ELCA Strategy on HIV & AIDS. The Strategy on...

There is a Time for Everything, and a Season for Every Activity Under Heaven. Ecclesiastes 3:1 Pointing Forward: So let’s consider the 5 P’s of gardening: Planning Planting Perspiring Picking, and Putting to bed. We’ve planned, we’ve planted, and if...

  At the 2016 ELCA Churchwide Assembly, ELCA World Hunger staff fielded questions and gathered feedback from the folks packing a room in the New Orleans’ Ernest Morial Convention Center. For an hour, we shared updates, heard comments about our...