This Lent, ELCA World Hunger released 40 Days of Giving — a challenge for all ELCA members and congregations to “encourage giving spiritually, intellectually and financially” (with a $2 million goal) by Easter. The challenge was issued as part of the ELCA’s five-year comprehensive campaign, Always Being Made New: The Campaign for the ELCA, which in 2016 is focusing on hunger and poverty alleviation. Sign up for a daily Lenten email devotion at www.ELCA.org/40days.
Civic engagement in an election season
In ELCA Presiding Bishop Yehiel Curry’s message “A call to be trusted messengers in this election season,” readers received an invitation: “This year, I invite you to embrace an additional…