Three Seminary Students, a Priest, and a Writer at Courts and Ports Border Witness Program
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...
Faithful Climate Negotiations Depend on Functioning House
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...Religious Liberty Groups Praise Districts Rejecting Public School Chaplains
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,...
Recent Research Expands Risk of Deadly Heat
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...
BORDER BILLS ENDANGER TEXANS OF FAITH
This week the Texas Legislature began its third Special session. As expected, border bills were on the agenda. On Tuesday, with short notice, the Senate Border Security Committee held a hearing to discuss the two immigration bills filed, Senate Bill 4 (SB 4) and...
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Immigration Seminar: SB 4
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Join us for the first installment of our new Immigration Summer Learning Series. Our first speaker is Luis Figueroa, the Senior Director of Legislative Affairs at EveryTexan. Luis will do a deep dive on SB 4 (88th) and what we can expect now that it has gone into effect. Event is from 3:00- 4:00 pm […]