by Joshua Houston | Oct 25, 2023 | Action Alerts, Blog, Houston Faith Votes, Latest Posts
Early Voting is underway and ends Friday, November 3. Election Day is Tuesday, November 7. The Texas Constitution limits what our state government can do. Therefore, after each legislative session, there are usually a number of items that require a constitutional...
by Bee Moorhead | Oct 25, 2023 | Faith Leader Statements, Latest Posts
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE OCTOBER 25, 2023 Contact Bee Moorhead: bee@texasimpact.org Texas Impact, the oldest and largest interfaith advocacy group in the state, joined allies and advocates in denouncing the anti-immigration bills under consideration in the House. ...
by Bee Moorhead | Oct 24, 2023 | Latest Posts, Membership
When I started as Texas Impact’s executive director, I could have imagined many of the policy challenges Texas would face over the coming decades. It’s not hard to imagine conflicts over resource allocation, or over how we educate our kids. It’s no surprise that...
by Becca Edwards | Oct 20, 2023 | Climate Justice, COP27, COP28, Global Climate Policy, Latest Posts, Legislative
Scientists continue to sound the alarm that deadly climate change has arrived, and that the impacts will continue to worsen if we as a global community cannot find a way to stop emitting greenhouse gasses by producing and burning fossil fuels. This summer, the hottest...
by David Vassallo | Oct 20, 2023 | Blog, Education, Featured Content, Latest Posts, Religious Freedom
Texas chaplains are leading the fight against “chaplains” replacing counselors in public schools. AUSTIN—More than ten Texas school districts already rejected the option to replace public school counselors with “chaplains.” These districts stretch across the state,...
by Becca Edwards | Oct 20, 2023 | Blog, Climate Justice, COP28, Creation Care, Global Climate Policy, Latest Posts
Kim Stanley Robinson’s book “The Ministry for the Future” opens with the story of an aid worker struggling to escape an extreme heatwave that knocks out the power grid and kills thousands of people unable to escape the heat. The book is fiction, but it is based on an...
