Public Policy Advocacy
Learn more about issues concerning life (including abortion and physician-assisted suicide), marriage, family, sexuality, parental choice in education, and religious freedom.
How will you prayerfully engage?
As Lutheran Christians, we have a dual citizenship in two kingdoms: 1) spiritual and 2) earthly. As we embrace our neighbors with acts of witness and mercy, we recognize the authority of the governments and rulers that have been set in place. Yet this balance can be tricky. What do we do when the government promotes lifestyles contrary to the Word of God? How do we respond when the government intrudes into the realm of the Church?
There are several District resources below that can help—and don’t forget that the LCMS also has an abundance of resources for navigating social issues, all available here.
Reading recommendations
Click here to view the District public policy’s latest reading recommendations, including Strange New World, Tearing Us Apart: How Abortion Harms Everything and Solves Nothing, Live Not By Lies, Modern Fascism, and Moral Darwinism.
It’s 2025, and at long last – after 30 years of hard work and struggle – we appear to have reached a tipping point in the effort to once again acknowledge parents as the primary authority in the educational lives of their children. There have been many important milestones along the way – many judicial, legislative and public opinion victories - that have led to this new and very positive circumstance. But none of these carries the promise of the recently passed Educational Choice for Children Act (ECCA).