By Kathy Whitaker Knight So first, let’s get literal with this … environment is synonymous with surroundings, location, atmosphere, situation. Poverty is synonymous with shortage, deficiency, scarcity, and lack. What needs to be understood is that poverty creates its own priorities. Those who would damage the environment are clear about those concepts. That’s why they […]

  We prayed and we organized.  We amplified the voices of directly impacted communities and we met with elected officials and high-level decision-makers.  We held press conferences and wrote letters. We widely distributed our Governing Board’s published statement condemning the construction of pipelines such as the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. And It Worked! The announcement of […]

The work of faith-based climate action is important to us because we know that we cannot Iove our neighbors without addressing climate change and environmental injustice. The same can be said for COVID-19. We know we cannot love, and stand with, the vulnerable in our society without taking the coronavirus seriously. That means following the […]