The Texas Legislature begins meeting on January 10, 2017. Texas Impact, an interfaith legislative advocacy network of which the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth is a member, offers many ways for Episcopalians in Texas to stay informed and to have an impact.
Read a newsletter here listing many such opportunities, such as the January 8 legislative briefing on health care in Texas and the January 9 Weekly Witness preview webinar on health justice.
The Texas Interfaith Center for Public Policy is a faith-based, 501(c)(3) non-profit organization established in 2000, providing theologically grounded public policy analysis to people of faith and other Texans. The Center is the research and education partner of Texas Impact, a 501(c)(4) interfaith legislative advocacy network. Board members from Fort Worth are Katie Sherrod and Kathleen Wells.
The Texas Impact website says, “Faith communities are called to provide alternatives to the prevailing political model of ‘win-lose’ by establishing grounds for all parties to pursue a common good. The Center aims to fill an important niche in the public policy landscape by offering an ‘Other Way’” Faith communities are ideally and uniquely positioned to provide this counter-narrative, which synthesizes conflicting secular policy analyses and at the same time rejects all secular policy paradigms as insufficient.”