Blog Archives: violence

Within the last few days there has been a great deal of information coming out of Iran about the state-sanctioned beating and murder of a woman named Jîna Amini. It…

Image from Wikimedia Commons. At LPF we are committed to racial justice. But we recognize that we as an organization have a lot of shortcomings. The Evangelical Lutheran Church in…

ELCA Global Mission describes accompaniment as “walking together in a solidarity that practices interdependence and mutuality.” Filipinos, who were under Spanish rule for 300 years, call this concept pakikisama, “to…

How often do you celebrate the women in your life, to show your appreciation and to strengthen them? Imagine doing this and boosting women’s equality too! March 8 is International…

June 19, 2018 marked the 36th anniversary of the murder of Vincent Chin. Shining a light back on this terrible event is important — especially as many do not know…

Here’s a statistic so shocking that it defies belief: 1 in every 3 women in the world will be raped or beaten in her lifetime, according to the One Billion…

Members of the ELCA-Lutheran World Federation delegation at the 59th UN Commission on the Status of Women, 2015, NYC. What does our church say about women and justice, to generate discussion…

Speak up for women’s rights or equality, and you’ll get different reactions depending on who’s listening. It’s par for the course for an activist, isn’t it? We need inspiration, resources,…

The grand jury has decided to not charge the police officer who shot and killed an unarmed teen in the Ferguson suburb of St. Louis three months ago. The decision…

Scientists say there is a direct link between changing climate and an increase in violence. As the food supply dwindles, the poor will be hit hardest, but we’ll all be…