by Bee Moorhead | Nov 7, 2023 | Latest Posts, Membership, Spotlight
When you support Texas Impact on Giving Tuesday, you support our work for justice. Your donation helps us equip Texans of faith for civic engagement and policy advocacy. And, your Giving Tuesday gift is 100%...
by Becca Edwards | Nov 3, 2023 | Blog, Climate Justice, Global Climate Policy, Latest Posts, Texas Climate & Energy
The conflict between fossil fuel operators and corporations and those working for a safe climate has recently coalesced around natural gas, which was once considered a more climate-friendly option to coal. Although burning natural gas releases about 50% the amount of...
by Bee Moorhead | Oct 31, 2023 | Human Migration, Human Rights, Latest Posts, Law Enforcement, Legislative, Race & Gender, Religious Freedom, Spotlight
Here’s a real horror story: HB 4 would allow law enforcement anywhere in Texas to round up American citizens, take them to a port of entry, and order them to leave the country. Sounds like fiction? We wish it were. Watch the video and then call your state...
by Katie Wang | Oct 30, 2023 | Advocacy 101, Civic Engagement, Congregation and Group Action, Government 101, Houston Faith Votes, Latest Posts
The November 2023 general election is underway, and Houston congregations are mobilizing their members to use their voice in the voting booth. As of close of business on October 29, 100,438 registered voters in Harris County had cast their ballots either in person or...
by Becca Edwards | Oct 27, 2023 | Blog, Climate Justice, Disaster Responses and Resilience, Global Climate Policy, Latest Posts, Texas Climate & Energy
Scientists are working to understand what caused Hurricane Otis, originally forecast to make landfall on the western coast of Mexico as a strong tropical storm or minimal hurricane, to explode in intensity overnight. Most forecast models missed this change, leaving...
by Fabiola Olvera Benitez | Oct 26, 2023 | Asylum, Asylum Ban, Blog, Faith Communities, Human Migration, Human Rights, Latest Posts
This past week, three Seminary students, a priest, and a writer joined me in the Rio Grande Valley for our Courts and Ports Border Witness program. In less than 24 hours from their arrival, they found themselves sitting in front of an Immigration Judge witnessing...
