Guest blog post by Rev. Mel Caraway and Rev. Phil Dieke Texas Impact board members meet with Tajikistani faith and civil society leaders in Dallas We had a great meeting today with a delegation from Tajikistan on “International Religious Freedom.” Their...
Living in Texas has heightened one of my family’s hobbies in my life: birdwatching. Birdwatching used to be something we would do in my family when sitting down with my grandparents after church. We would chat and look at the chickadees and barn swallows grazing. Now...
Texas Impact board and staff members September 2024 Texas Impact’s Leader Council comprises representatives from diverse faith traditions, some of whom serve as official representatives of governing bodies or interest groups within their traditions and others of whom...
The Data: Border Patrol Land Encounters in Texas Decrease As of January 2024, U.S. Customs and Border Protection data shows that Border Patrol (BP) land encounters with migrants throughout the entire southern land border decreased, and specifically the Texas-Mexico...
This last summer was my first full summer in Texas, and as many of you know it was a doozy. While we were living about 80 days of torturous 100-degree weather and sunny-sided seasonal depression, I couldn’t help but listen to all the Texans around me telling me it had...