ELCA Presiding Bishop Elizabeth A. Eaton listens as a Syrian refugee speaks while gathered at the Lutheran World Federation Peace Oasis in the Zaatari refugee camp, Jordan. Eaton was joined by Archbishop Antje Jackelén of the Church of Sweden and Gloria Rojas Vargas, former president of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Chile. Many families at the camp are facing their fifth winter being displaced from their homes.
What freedom requires
Editor’s note: In this second installment of a three-part Living Lutheran series, Deanna Kim Bassett, an ELCA pastor, reflects on her family’s experience of Japanese American incarceration—and what those stories…