ELCA World Hunger

Today is the 20th annual World AIDS Day, a day when individuals and organizations from around the world come together to bring attention to the global AIDS epidemic. AIDS and hunger are closely intertwined. AIDS is rapidly spreading in the...

Evidently “cyber Monday,” the Monday after Thanksgiving (December 1), is the biggest online shopping day of the year. If you’re an online shopper, consider these ways to “click and do good.” 1. Visit www.elca.org and scroll down to the “Gifts...

I’ll be joining the Let’s Talk Bread group in here in Chicago this next Tuesday, December 2. If you live in the area (or will be visiting), we will be discussing (among other things) a phenomenal book, The Bottom Billion,...

“One generation shall laud your works to another, and shall declare your mighty acts” (Psalm 145:4). My daughter, Annie, studied a picture of me praying with my mom. “You were three?” she asked. I nodded. “I was three when Umma...

If I may piggyback on Nancy’s (superb!) post, that to me is the problem with $2 gas. I drive much less when it costs $60 to fill up my tank than when it costs $30 (I remember when it cost...

I’ve never fully bought into the phrase, “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.” Sometimes I think things just come close to killing you. But it occurs to me that the current economic conditions in the U.S. may be a...

Thanks for making this help possible In the midst of a humanitarian disaster, your generous giving to the ELCA World Hunger Appeal allows our church to accompany the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Zimbabwe in life-saving ways. Thank you. Please consider...

I wrote an article about my 30-year journey to get Christmas gift-giving “right” for the December issue of Lutheran Woman Today magazine (visit www.tinyurl.com/SusieSays). This article won’t be featured on the LWT Web site until December, but you can get...

“So teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts to wisdom” (Psalm 90:12). “Wake up!” says the Psalmist, “For you own good get smart and change now…life is short!” Only 27 shopping days until Christmas! What...

From time to time I like to peek ahead at the coming Sunday’s Gospel to gauge how stressful the week’s sermon prep will be for the preacher (I know, I get pleasure out of the most twisted pastimes). This week’s...