The documents below are organized into the following categories. Please click on the link that you would like to view.
Lutheran Public Policy
- The Public Witness of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada: A Policy on How the Church Addresses Social Issues
- Social Statement on Church and State: A Lutheran Perspective
Rights and Dignity
- ELCIC Resolution on the Doctrine of Discovery
- Social Statement on Human Rights: Doing Justice in God’s World
- Study Paper on a Health Charter for Canada: A Concern for the Church
- Statement Towards Adequate Health Care for All Canadians
- Study Paper on Canada’s Health Care System: Our Responsibility, Our Challenge
- Statement Towards Adequate Housing for All Canadians
- Social Statement on the Church and Social Welfare
- ELCIC Resolution on Health Care
- Pastoral Statement on AIDS
Economics
- Statement on Biblical Justice
- Social Statement on Economic Justice Stewardship: of Creation in Human Community
- Social Statement on Poverty
- Statement on Poverty and the Canada Assistance Plan
- Statement on the Agricultural Rehabilitation and Development Act
- Statement on Lotteries
- Statement on Social Economic Justice
- ELCIC Response to Globalization
- Statement on Commercialization
Sexuality and Family
- ELCIC Social Statement on Human Sexuality, 2011
- 1997 Study on Human Sexuality
- Statement Towards Adequate Day Care Services for Young Children
- Statement on Responsible Parenthood
- Statement on Religion and Child Welfare Including Adoption
- Study Paper on Divorce and Remarriage
- Stewards of Creation: Respect for Human Life
- Statement on Abortion
- Convention Minutes on the Subject of Abortion (1978 – LCA)
- Statement on Sex, Marriage and Family, 1970
Aging and Death
- Social Statement on Aging and the Older Adult
- Statement on the Aging
- Social Statement on Death and Dying
- ELCIC Resolution on Decisions-at-the-End-of-Life
International Affairs
- Social Statement on World Community: Ethical Imperatives in an Age of Interdependence
- Statement Towards Greater International Responsibility
- Covenant for a Common Future: A Working Definition of Development
- The ELCIC’s Position on South Africa and Namibia
- ELCIC Resolution on Peace in the Holy Land
Peace
Ecology
- ELCIC Resolution on Climate Justice
- A Social Statement on the Human Crisis in Ecology
- Convention Resolution on Stewardship of Creation
Diversity
- ELCIC Resolution on Welcoming the Stranger
- ELCIC Resolution on Right Relationships with Indigenous Peoples
- Social Statement on Race Relations
- Statement on Inclusiveness and Diversity: Gifts of God
- Statement on Youth and Volunteer Programs
- ELCIC Resolution Regarding a Statement to the Jewish Communities in Canada
- ELCIC Resolution on the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples Report
Criminal Justice
- ELCIC Resolution on the Criminal Justice and Correctional Systems in Canada
- Social Statement on Capital Punishment
- Statement on Capital Punishment
- Social Statement in Pursuit of Justice and Dignity: Society, the Offender and Systems of Correction
- Gun Control: A Canadian Perspective
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