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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
The Global Stocktake is a United Nations Framework Convention initiative in which each of the Parties to the Paris agreement submits an assessment of their current progress in addressing climate change. Parties are required to submit reports on progress toward meeting...
