Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

States Merchant Marine Academy. Serving others through missionary work and service projects has strengthened my interest in marine transportation and service to my country. Providing humanitarian aid to the people of Detroit during the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America national youth gathering was a rewarding experience. It is a privilege to help those who are less fortunate and need necessities that I take for granted. It was a humbling reminder of how I want to be committed to serving in…

understand religion today, and how I understand my life. Both of my parents are Lutheran just like their parents before them. On my mom’s side, her grandparents, so my great-grandparents, still go to this old country church in the middle of nowhere. Right next to the church there sits a cemetery. Having the cemetery right next to the church would make it easy to see loved ones that have passed away after going to church or before. Also, when my great grandpa was buried there it made it easy to…

Representative of New York once said “America was born as a nation of immigrants who have always contributed to its greatness.” When the United States were still just colonies, the people there were not Americans. They were persecuted Protestants, oppressed Irishmen, and tormented Germans to came to America to escape conflict. Over time, these people became Americans through their actions and growing unity. Crèvecoeur was a Frenchman who immigrated to America and wrote “What Is an American?” in…

Against Defamation) and Human Rights Campaign have added transgender to their mission statement. Even though many churches believe that being transgender is a sin some churches are now more accepting, including the Episcopal Church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church, and the United Church of Christ. Brad Dacus, the president of the Pacific Justice Institute, has started a petition for a vote in California that would force people who use bathrooms that do not conform to their sex at birth to pay a…

opposite sex legally come together as partners in a relationship. “...marriage is a union that is meant to produce children for the continuance of society, and he rejects same sex marriage because it is incapable of doing this” (The Catholic Church, “The Catholic Church Should Never…” 2). People like to argue that everybody deserves the right to be happy. Even though everyone deserves happiness, people choose to be unhappy by turning their sexuality. Same sex marriage has been complicated for…

home countries because of a violent war in Serbia. “They wanted to ethnically cleanse it and kill us all,” she recalls faintly. In hopes to find greater opportunities and a safer place to raise a family, her parents took her and her two siblings to America. Relocating to Lansdale, Pa, the resilient family arrived and were taken care of by Jan and…

religions in Latin America. The predominant religions in Guatemala are Catholicism, Christianity and Mayan spirituality. However, during the colonial era, Catholicism was the main religion. There has been a tremendous growth in the Protestants community. According to the The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, “Pentecostals represent the most rapidly growing sector of Latin American Protestantism”. The other protestant churches which are also popular in Guatemala are the Lutheran, Presbyterian…

Willard Mitt Romney, former Governor of Massachusetts, made a play for the Republican Party Ticket for both the 2008 and 2012 Presidential Election 1. While he was successful in 2012, he was not in 2008. The speech I decided to analyze, Faith in America, delivered on December 6, 2007[2], in Texas, was a time when Mitt Romney was trying to come off as a very family and faith-oriented candidate. Romney, like any other presidential hopeful, came across as many different identities in his speech,…

Almost all or at least the majority of the citizens in the United States, would agree that they deserve the rights they are granted by the government. The opportunity to wed and marry the love of your life being one of those rights. Same-sex marriage has been a widely debated topic throughout the United States over the past couple of decades and has been unsolvable. Same-sex marriage is defined as the marriage between individuals or partners of the same sex. Same-sex marriage laws vary by…

Trump has five children by three marriages, and has eight grandchildren.[28][29] His first two marriages ended in widely publicized divorces.[30] Trump married his first wife, Czech model Ivana Zelníčková, on April 7, 1977, at the Marble Collegiate Church in Manhattan in a ceremony performed by the Reverend Norman Vincent Peale.[31][32] They had three children: son Donald Jr. (born December 31, 1977), daughter Ivanka (born October 30, 1981), and son Eric (born January 6, 1984). Ivana became a…