October 5, 2021
Bishops from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada and the Anglican Church of Canada have written to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau about the climate crisis. Their calls for action come as the Canadian government prepares to participate in next month’s UN Climate Change Conference.
September 23, 2021
Leaders from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada, Anglican Church of Canada, The Episcopal Church, and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America have written to their churches as a sign of their commitments to the work toward truth, healing, justice and accurate education.
In a letter to the church in advance of Canada Day 2021, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada National Bishop Susan C. Johnson invites ELCIC members to join her in reflection, “on how we got here as a country and what we need to do to move towards reconciliation.”
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada National Bishop Susan Johnson writes to the church to ask members to lend their voice to support Bill C-15, an Act respecting the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Content warning: abuse, trauma, tragic loss of children, genocide
For the second summer in a row, ELCIC Bishops and Assistant to the Bishops are coming together to provide a series of sermons available for congregations to use from May 23 to September 12, 2021.
ELCIC National Bishop Susan Johnson joins with Archbishop Linda Nicholls, Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, Rev. Dr. Karin Achtelsetter, Executive Director of Canadian Lutheran World Relief, and Will Postma, Executive Director of Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund in writing to express support for Bill-S-216 and ending modern slavery.
ELCIC National Bishop Susan Johnson joins with leaders of the Anglican Church of Canada, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and The Episcopal Church in a statement for the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Descrimination, March 21, 2021
ELCIC National and Synod Bishops write to the church to express their ongoing concern for domestic violence in our country and within our church.
A message of hope and encouragement from Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada National Bishop Susan Johnson and Anglican Church of Canada Archbishop Linda Nicholls.
