The ELCA Task Force on Civic Life and Faith released this study curriculum for use throughout our church. Originally, the Study included surveys for public feedback on the content. It was a way for the task force to hear from the wider church what a social statement draft should say on civic life and faith. That draft now exists and is available in English and Spanish at elca.org/civicsandfaith. The surveys are now closed.
The Study remains online to help people learn about these issues. You are welcome to utilize it, but please consider reading and responding to the draft social statement as well—feedback is invited through September 30, 2024. The social statement task force will use that feedback to strengthen the draft in anticipation of a proposed social statement on civic life and faith being considered by the 2025 ELCA Churchwide Assembly.
The curriculum has six sessions. The first is a core introduction, and the following sessions can be done in any order according to the interests of the group. Each session comes ready to use, with a teaching video, prayers, hymn suggestions, Scriptures, group discussion questions, suggested resources, and case studies taken from everyday life.
If you have questions, please email us here civicsandfaith@elca.org. To learn more about the task force and its work, visit elca.org/civicsandfaith. For a Spanish version of the Study, go to https://elca.org/estudiocivicayfe.
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