ELCA World Hunger

I really appreciated Mark Goetz’s June 11 post, “Ziplock Bags and Deliberated Choices” about decisions that we don’t make ourselves but let the dominant cultural “flow” determine for us. Swimming upstream is hard work. Ridicule is usually involved, as Mark...

Hello readers! I’m the other World Hunger intern for summer 2010, Julie Reishus. Today is day eight of this amazing internship experience, and so far every day has been energizing, convicting, affirming, and challenging. I am sincerely thankful to God...

My name is Allie Stehlin and I am an intern at ELCA World Hunger this summer. I am a senior at Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota and am studying Political Science, Peace Studies, and Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies. I...

The following was written by guest blogger, Mark Goetz. I love ziplock freezer bags. They are handy and durable, seal well, and don’t take up much space in a drawer waiting to be used. In the freezer and refrigerator they don’t...

So what’s the scoop on twenty-somethings and vegetable gardens? My brother and I were talking this afternoon about all the people we know of, our age, who are beginning to grow their own food. I think that this is very...

Last week I posted the suggestion that the way in which depictions of those who are hungry often make them less than human.  I wondered how we could possibly see their full humanity (along with all their power and dignity)...

For me, the prime benefit of the accompaniment approach to global mission and development is how it prods us to replace  “over there” thinking (as in, “let’s pray or send money to those poor folks suffering somewhere else from a...

I was recently listening to the soundtrack from Wicked, when a few lines from the song “Wonderful” struck me. The lines were these: “A man’s called a traitor – or liberator A rich man’s a thief – or philanthropist Is one a...

When I turned on my computer this afternoon I had an article link from Fast Company waiting for me in my inbox. The article is about cell phone charging via bicycles. My first response?…Cool! The phones which are optimally designed...

Dare You to Move (don’t mind the typo) I am developing a hunger education event that will be similar to World Vision’s 30 Hour Famine.  I have been watching videos and exploring activities that are usually a part of these...