U.S. Wildfires, www.ldr.org The Situation: Intense heat in the western United States has fueled a number of wildfires. The Carr fire in Shasta County of Northern California has been particularly dangerous. So far, the fire has claimed six lives, with seven people missing, more than 95,000 acres burned, more than 1,000 homes destroyed and 38,000 […]

6/26/2018 10:00:00 AM, CHICAGO ELCA NEWS Thus says the Lord: Act with justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor anyone who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the alien, the orphan, and the widow … (Jeremiah 22:3). I am dismayed by the Supreme Court’s recent decision concerning […]

6/7/2018 12:30:00 PM, CHICAGO ELCA NEWS  The Rev. Elizabeth A. Eaton, presiding bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), has convened ELCA ecumenical and inter-religious partners in a statement addressing concerns over a recent U.S. government policy calling for more stringent enforcement of federal immigration laws. The policy will most likely result in […]

4/14/2018 2:10:00PM ELCA NEWS “Give God no rest” (Isaiah 62:6-7) until that day when “the wolf and the lamb shall feed together. … They shall not hurt or destroy on all my holy mountain, says the Lord” (Isaiah 65:25) (ELCA social statement, “For Peace in God’s World”). In recent days we have witnessed, with additional horror, […]

May God bless your Holy Week – Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Vigil, and Celebration of the Resurrection. Fear. There has been a lot of that lately. In the face of serious challenges, we freeze, we flee, and we fight. Fear. There has been a lot of that lately in our country, communities, and congregations. […]

An Easter message from Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton It all started with such promise – the angel announcing to Mary that the child she would bear would be called Son of the Most High; the conviction of Mary that this child would be the embodiment of God’s promised justice, that the hungry would be filled […]

CHICAGO (Feb. 22, 2018) – In partnership with Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton’s Leadership Initiative, the seven seminaries of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) will  launch a combined effort to encourage new candidates for ministry in the ELCA. The program, “Do you want to change the world?,” is being promoted through a series of […]

This statement appears in a number of edited forms to meet required word limits of web and print media. A Statement From the ELCA Synod Bishops of Minnesota In the church’s way of telling time January is the season of Epiphany, when Christians remember the Magi—travelers from the east who followed a star to the […]

Please accompany Bishop Jon’s report with the video posted below. You can download the video from our Vimeo webpage by clicking here. What’s a Synod good for? A video to use at 2018 Annual Meetings. Click here to download video.