Conference on Congregations’ Climate ‘Resilience’ Turns to Speaking Up for Climate Justice

The familiar adage that “everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it” got a new interpretation recently for faith-based climate activists: It's time to turn our conversations about this summer's extreme weather into action to save ourselves and Planet Earth from death.

That re-interpretation – and its urgency – came from two keynote speakers July 15-16 at a conference “Resilience for Congregations,” held at Lovers Lane United Methodist Church and co-sponsored by Texas Interfaith Power & Light and the City of Dallas Office of Environmental Quality and Sustainability. The conference included five workshops on urban agriculture, environmental justice, water, climate migration and energy.

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