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From Pastor George Carlson, Bishop
This week we all journey to the cross. We share a meal
that Jesus shared with his disciples as they remembered
that God acted to liberate people from the oppression of
Egypt. We follow Jesus, who sought to draw all people to
himself, high and lifted up, embracing all people with
God's love. We go the tomb where word of the greatest
liberation rings, "He has been raised; he is not here."
Hearing the word that death does not have the last word,
we rejoice that God frees us from sin and the fear of
death, frees us to love all people as God first loved us.

As legislative reform continues to be debated, I will
continue to monitor and write and perhaps take further
action. I want you to know that I joined many other
bishops of the ELCA, including Presiding Bishop Mark
Hanson, in signing onto [the] letter to our congressional
leaders at the urging of Lutheran Immigration and
Refugee Services, a freestanding agency supported by
ELCA, LC-MS, and Latvian ELCA.
[....Click here to read the letter]
Grace to you and peace as we follow Jesus this Holy
Week and always!

On Monday [April 10] I stood near the state capitol in
Madison, looking down West Washington Avenue. I
went because our synod assembly last year passed a
resolution that memorialized "the ELCA to recommit to
being an advocate and justice seeker in regard to
refugee and immigration issues." I went because I
have deep concern about current immigration issues
and future immigration reform that will treat people
justly. I went because I wanted to stand with my
sisters and brothers who long for the opportunities I
enjoy as a citizen of the United States of America.

This participation marked a first for me. I thought
about Palm Sunday and throngs that greeted Jesus
when he entered Jerusalem. I wondered what was on
the minds of those people in Jerusalem. Were some
like me, a mix of curiousity and hope and
apprehension and silent support?

Soon the marchers from Brittingham Park came into
view, and they kept coming, and coming, and coming.
They walked with homemade signs, with USA flags,
with flags of Mexico and other South-American
countries, with chants, with drums--young and old,
mothers with children, mostly hispanics but many
others, too. They gathered on the State Street side of
the capitol with hope and expectancy.
The Rev. George Carlson, Bishop