ELCA Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton has issued a issued a pastoral message on the current conflict between the United States and Iran. “Our country and Iran need urgently to find ways to resolve our differences through a de-escalation of the current crisis, using diplomacy and other peaceful means,” the message reads, in part.
“Our social statement, ‘For Peace in God’s World,’ offers guidance: We of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America share with the Church of Jesus Christ in all times and places the calling to be peacemakers ….The basis of the Church’s peace-calling is in God’s final peace, the peace of God’s eternal reign. That calling is to proclaim the Gospel of God’s final peace and to work for earthly peace.”
