This OpEd by Dr. Kellie Sanders appeared in the Verde Independent on November 4, 2025. Dr. Sanders serves as church council president at Spirit of Joy Lutheran Church in Clarkdale, Arizona.

ELCA Witness in Society staff want to share your stories with congressional offices. Sharing your Arizona story helps ELCA advocacy on issues you care about be more effective! Read more.

Host Regina Banks speaks with Karen Ehrens, US Policy Manager, Alliance to End Hunger. The interviews were recorded on Monday, October 27th, as advocates across the country expected SNAP funding to run out or be withheld starting November 1st.

ELCA Witness in Society Senior Director, the Rev. Amy Reumann, joins other faith leaders in calling the new goal ‘biased’, indicating it abandons those at risk, and is in need of reversal. Read the statement.

Living Lutheran article by the Rev. Ralen Robinson. “When we, as a community, stand up and speak boldly to advocate for change, we become the voice for those silenced by systems. This is the Reformation in everyday life, the reform church that accepts everyone and allows all of us to have accessible faith.”

Learn what’s going on with Refugee Resettlement, and how you can help, from our partners at Lutheran Social Services of the Southwest.

Searching for the perfect gift? Shop ELCA Good Gifts and choose from more than 50 life-changing, charitable gifts to give in lieu of traditional Christmas presents.

Save the date! Lutheran Day at the Legislature 2026 will be on Monday, February 23 from 9:30 am - 1:30 pm. In addition to a rally, meetings with legislators, and introductions in both House and Senate galleries, a light breakfast and lunch will be served.

Grand Canyon Synod partners from the Safe Communities Coalition offer this helpful resource by the Digital Defense Fund for responding to online harassment and doxxing.

ELCA Action Alert includes update from November 3. There are 42 million Americans who depend on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to feed their families who are at risk of seeing delays of their November benefits due to the current government shutdown.

‘Here I Pod’ kicks off Season 3 with "Immigration, Sensitive Locations, and Faithful Actions," featuring special guests from ELCA Ammparo, The Border Church/La Iglesia Fronteriza and ELCA Advocacy.

Learn more about how your gifts to Lutheran Disaster Response share hope and healing with communities impacted by disaster in the United States and around the world.

Mr. Peter Faur, a member of the LAMA Policy Committee, has a new novel out this week: The Heretic Hunters: A Parable for Our Time. Check it out.

New ELCA Action Alert! As policymakers work to finalize the next farm bill, urge your members of Congress to ensure programs that feed hungry people around the world are protected.

Supporting public healthcare measures like Prop 409 that ensure access for the low-income, uninsured, and underserved is one specific way we can live out our biblical call to justice and mercy.

On Friday, October 17, Arizona inmate Richard Djerf is set to be put to death by lethal injection. ELCA Witness in Society sent Governor Katie Hobbs a letter asking her to commute Djerf’s death sentence. Read the letter.

New ELCA Action Alert! Critical programs that protect the integrity of our air, soil, water, and the habitats that sustain all living creatures are at risk. Take action today!

Read updates from Capitol Hill as of October 10, 2025 by ELCA Advocacy.