Elizabeth Eaton, presiding bishop of the ELCA, has issued the following statement in response to President Donald Trump’s decision to move the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem….
ELCA pastor Denise Gundersen was at a church meeting when a dog wandered into the room. She wondered aloud where it came from, and the host pastor replied, “He’s a…
“Las Vegas. There are no words. Just prayers, lament…and the witness of love and life in Jesus Christ. Lord have mercy,” tweeted ELCA Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton the morning of…
Wearing a wide-brimmed hat and sunglasses to shade himself from the early May sun, Daoud Nassar strolls down the dusty path on his family’s 101-year-old hilltop farm. In every direction…
Each season, Zulema Lopez sows and reaps crops in the village of San Luis, near Somoto in northern Nicaragua. But after years of prolonged drought, wells have run dry and…
In Zimbabwe, the Mwenezi River has overflowed twice in the last two months. Before this year, the Mwenezi had only flooded three times in the last half century. “On all…
The idea that climate change is a political issue or a matter of debate makes no sense, said Thomas Richter, pastor of Shishmaref Lutheran, the only congregation in the Alaskan…
The wide, flat and winding paths through northern Nicaragua look like well-traveled roads for four-wheel-drive vehicles. But upon closer inspection, they’re not paths at all—they’re dried up riverbeds. The Tecomapa…
Shishmaref is a fishing village in Alaska that is on an island only 3 miles long and a quarter-mile wide in the Chuckchi Sea, just north of the Bering Strait….
In honor of Earth Day on April 22, Living Lutheran is featuring a weekly series of blogs exploring different facets of caring for creation throughout the month of April. In…
Shishmaref, Alaska, has taken center stage as its residents fight to preserve their way of life as changes in their environment and landscape attributed to climate change pose threats. “The…
Residents of Shishmaref, Alaska, may be our country’s first “climate refugees”—people forced to leave their homes because of rising seas attributed to climate change. But they probably won’t be the…
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