ELCA Advocacy
ELCA advocacy works for change in public policy based on the experience of Lutheran ministries, programs and projects around the world and in communities across the United States. They work through political channels on behalf of the following biblical values: peacemaking, hospitality to strangers, care for creation, and concern for people living in poverty and struggling with hunger and disease.
Immigration & Refugee Support
- Global Refuge
- Background & Resources (Global Refuge)
- 5 Ways to Support Immigrants & Refugees in 2025 (Global Refuge)
- Factsheet: Rescission of Protected Areas Policies(National Immigration Law Center)
- Blessed are the Peacemakers: Meditation and Reconciliation Skills for the Church (Lutheran World Federation)
- AMMPARO Migrant Ministry
- AMMPARO Resource Page
- Know Your Rights (AMMPARO)
White Supremacy and Lutheranism
Resource List
- Confronting Racism and White Supremacy in the US: Twenty-First Century Perspectives edited by Michael R. Fisher, Jr. (includes chapter on “Lutheran Theological Resources to Confront White Supremacy by Carmelo Santos)
- A Rumor of Black Lutherans: The Formation of Black Leadership in Early American Lutheranism by James Thomas
- Dismantle: An Anti-White Supremacy Lenten Devotional (available in English and Spanish)
- Condemnation of White Supremacy and Racist Rhetoric (ELCA Social Policy Resolution CA.19.04.18)
- ELCA Land Acknowledgement Guide
- Native Land Tool: https://native-land.ca/
- The Origins of Critical Race Theory by Aja Y. Martinez and Robert O. Smith
- Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla Saad
- Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World and Become a Good Ancestor (Young Readers Edition) by Layla Saad
- Virginia Synod Tapestry Resource Page
Advocacy Statements from the Presiding Bishop
- Interfaith Solidarity Statement on Refugees and Immigrants (3/7/2025)
- Response in Support of Jerusalem Patriarchs on Gaza (2/28/2025)
- Faith, fear, and the call to community (2/21/2025)
- Response to Executive Orders on Immigration (2/14/2025)
- ELCA Responds to False Accusations on X (2/2/2025)
- Statement on Immigration Executive Orders (1/28/2025)
- Message on Executive Orders (1/24/2025)
- ELCA Conference of Bishops Emphasizes the Need to Speak the Truth (10/1/2024)
- Christian Nationalism and Who is a Real American (6/12/2024)