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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 4h

ACTION ALERT

#ELCA food pantries, community meals and hunger relief organizing efforts complement but cannot replace #SNAP. The families we serve – working parents, children, seniors and people with disabilities – are counting on these benefits to survive.
act.elca.org/page/89852/a...

42 Million Americans Face Hunger Crisis during Shutdown – Take Action Now

Urge lawmakers and the Department of Agriculture to release SNAP contingency funds and to ensure no delays in hunger benefits during the government shutdown. Take action here.

act.elca.org

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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 7h

What can we do?

Donate money to your local food pantry.
Organize a food drive.
Connect to your local pantry to find out what food items they need and can accept.
Make a meal and drop it off.
Volunteer to cook.
Call your representatives.

fromthescienceclass.substack.com/p/ways-to-he...

Ways to help those hungry in your community

Protest with your hands, not just your signs, because right now people in your community need help.

fromthescienceclass.substack.com

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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 23h

The best use of resources is to contribute funds to already-established food banks and networks, and do what you can to help people access them.
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

US Department of Agriculture says no food aid benefits will be issued next month

The U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Saturday that food benefits under one of the country's biggest social assistance programs will not be issued next month amid the ongoing federal government shutdown.

www.reuters.com

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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 1d

In you alone, O God, we hope,
and not in our own merit.
We rest our fears in your good Word
and trust your Holy Spirit.
Your promise keeps us strong and sure;
we trust the cross, your signature,
inscribed upon our temples.

—Martin Luther
(ELW 600)

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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 1d

youtu.be/CXK9NNp1yk4

Rick Steves' Luther and the Reformation

YouTube video by Rick Steves' Europe

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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 2d

“It is God’s work, all part of the great Missio Dei,” she reflected, “and to deny this seems to me to be a heresy.”
lutheranworld.org/news/women-p...

Women preachers inspired by Reformation pioneers

‘Voices from the pulpit’ webinar highlights foremothers who paved the way for today’s gender justice movement (LWI) - As Lutheran churches around the world prepare to mark Reformation Day on 31 Octobe...

lutheranworld.org

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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 2d

“For the 2nd time in 6 weeks, a pastor was struck w a pepper round fired by a U.S. immigration agent as faith leaders protested the administration’s deportation efforts. Rev. Jorge Bautista was one of dozens of demonstrators who had gathered before sunrise Thursday.”
religionnews.com/2025/10/24/a...

At Bay Area protest, a second pastor is shot by federal agents with a pepper round

OAKLAND, Calif. (RNS) — For the second time in six weeks, a pastor was struck in the head with a pepper round fired by a US immigration agent as faith leaders protested the arrival of more than 100 US...

religionnews.com

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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 3d

How lovely is your dwelling place,
O Lord of hosts!

‍Happy are those who live in your house,
ever singing your praise.

—Psalm 84

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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 5d

“This is not a political act; it’s a pastoral one. It’s an expression of our faith in a God whose covenant love is wider than fear & whose grace refuses to be painted over. The rainbow is a reminder that God keeps showing up — esp for those the world tries to silence.”
www.wfaa.com/article/news...

Oak Lawn United Methodist Church in Dallas painting steps rainbow after Gov. Abbott's order on crosswalks

The church in the Oak Lawn neighborhood says it's painting its steps in rainbow colors in response to Gov. Greg Abbott's order targeting rainbow crosswalks.

www.wfaa.com

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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 5d

A #Lutheran youth ministry leader in Phoenix has been federally charged for producing child sexual abuse materials. The accused is Casey Goslin, 46, who worked for several organizations tied to the Grand Canyon Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. #ELCA
julieroys.com/phoenix-yout...

Phoenix Youth Minister Spent Thousands on Child Sexual Abuse Materials

Casey Goslin, a Lutheran youth ministry leader in Phoenix, has been federally charged for producing & possessing child sexual abuse material.

julieroys.com

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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 6d

“Signers of the letter represent an unusually diverse array of Christian groups, hailing from Presbyterian, Catholic, Black Protestant, UCC, Methodist, #Lutheran, Mennonite, Episcopalian, Unitarian Universalist, Disciples of Christ and Baptist traditions…”
religionnews.com/2025/10/21/a...

After clergy arrests, religious pushback to ICE expands in Chicago

(RNS) — More than 210 mostly Chicago-area clergy, representing a range of liberal and conservative traditions, have signed a letter criticizing ICE titled ‘Jesus is Being Tear Gassed at Broadview.’

religionnews.com

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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 6d

Brothers and sisters, do not grumble against one another, so that you may not be judged.

‍Above all, brothers and sisters, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or by any other oath, but let your “Yes” be yes and your “No” be no, so that you may not fall under condemnation.

—James 5

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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 8d

It is the vocation of the prophet to keep alive the ministry of imagination, to keep on conjuring & proposing alternative futures to the single one the king wants to urge as the only thinkable one.
—Walter Brueggemann

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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 8d

“The Lutheran Church of Norway on Thursday, October 16, apologized to the country's LGBTQ+ community, at a gay pub in Oslo, for the discrimination and harassment it subjected them to in the past.”
www.lemonde.fr/en/religions...

Church of Norway apologizes to LGBTQ+ community

The presiding bishop of the Church of Norway visited the London Pub in Oslo, a prominent gay venue, to apologize on Thursday for the 'shame, serious harm and pain' the church had inflicted on gay peop...

www.lemonde.fr

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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 9d

#ELCA Guidance on Updated Federal Grants Terms & Conditions
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Guidance on Updated Federal Grants Terms & Conditions - ELCA Resources

File size: 0.073 mb Download

resources.elca.org

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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 9d

“Terms & conditions of ANY fed funding MUST be carefully examined to ensure that accepting a grant does not make the church’s ministry an instrument of the state by dictating what religious activities the church can engage in & w whom the church can associate”
#ELCA
religionnews.com/2025/10/17/f...

Faith groups reject new Trump security grant rules over ICE, DEI

(RNS) — Earlier this year, DHS unveiled new conditions for grants faith groups use to protect their communities, including requiring recipients to cooperate with immigration enforcement and refrain fr...

religionnews.com

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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 9d

He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.

‍He has brought down the powerful from their thrones
and lifted up the lowly.

‍He has filled the hungry with good things
and sent the rich away empty.

—Luke 24

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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 9d

Because the poor are despoiled, because the needy groan,
“I will now rise up,” says the Lord. “I will place them in the safety for which they long.”
You, O Lord, will protect us.

On every side the wicked prowl,
as vileness is exalted among humankind.

—Psalm 12

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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 10d

Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless.
Not to speak is to speak.
Not to act is to act.

—Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 11d

Since we are God’s offspring, we ought not to think that the deity is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of mortals.

—Acts 17

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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 12d

ACTION ALERT
Please contact your members of Congress to protect international food programs in the farm bill.
act.elca.org/page/89462/a...

ACTION ALERT: Urge Congress to Protect International Food Aid in the Farm Bill

Support reauthorization of international food assistance.

act.elca.org

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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 13d

Pray in the Spirit at all times in every prayer and supplication. To that end, keep alert and always persevere in supplication for all the saints.
—Ephesians 6

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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 13d

With all of these, take the shield of faith, with which you will be able to quench all the flaming arrows of the evil one. Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
—Ephesians 6

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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 13d

Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his power. Stand, therefore, and belt your waist with truth and put on the breastplate of righteousness and lace up your sandals in preparation for the gospel of peace.
—Ephesians 6

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Lutheran Potluck @lutheranpotluck.bsky.social · 14d

A Nez Perce version of the prayer that Jesus taught us, from Indigenous People’s Liturgical Celebration, by Dr. Kelly Sherman-Conroy.

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