Presbyterian Mission Agency interfaith power & light Archives

Interfaith Power & Light names two PC(USA) churches as Cool Congregations for 2024

Posted February 26th, 2024

Six congregations — two of them churches in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) — were selected from 125 entries as 2024 winners of Interfaith Power & Light’s Cool Congregations Challenge.

New York Avenue Presbyterian Church hosts a talk on moral injury and climate change

Posted August 22nd, 2023

Dr. Rita Nakashima Brock, an acclaimed author and theologian and a senior vice president and director of the Shay Moral Injury Center at Volunteers of America, served this past summer as the McClendon Scholar-in-Residence at New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C. She recently gave an online lecture, “Moral Injury and Climate Change: Reclaiming Our Love for This Earth.”

New York Avenue Presbyterian Church hosts a talk on moral injury and climate change

Posted July 13th, 2023

Dr. Rita Nakashima Brock, an acclaimed author and theologian and a senior vice president and director of the Shay Moral Injury Center at Volunteers of America, is serving this summer as the McClendon Scholar-in-Residence at New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C. On Wednesday, she gave an online lecture, “Moral Injury and Climate Change: Reclaiming Our Love for This Earth.”

Webinar by PC(USA) partner Interfaith Power & Light tills the soil on how people of faith can influence the Farm Bill

Posted May 24th, 2023

Interfaith Power & Light, a partner of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), recently held a webinar exploring both the political and the faith-based aspects of the Farm Bill, which expires Sept. 30 and is reauthorized every five years.

Webinar by PC(USA) partner Interfaith Power & Light tills the soil on how people of faith can influence the Farm Bill

Posted April 19th, 2023

Interfaith Power & Light, a partner of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), held a webinar Tuesday exploring both the political and the faith-based aspects of the Farm Bill, which expires Sept. 30 and is reauthorized every five years.

Mid-Kentucky Presbytery is one of 18 national runners-up for Interfaith Power & Light’s ‘Cool Congregations’ awards

Posted February 14th, 2023

Mid-Kentucky Presbytery is one of the 18 national Interfaith Power & Light 2023 Cool Congregations Challenge awarded a $500 runner-up award.

Helping churches save money on their energy bills the topic of Presbyterians for Earth Care webinar

Posted January 4th, 2023

Last month’s webinar, “Save Money on Church Energy Bills,” hosted by Presbyterians for Earth Care, provided viewers practical steps churches have taken both to help save the planet and to whittle away at their energy bills. Watch the hour-long broadcast here.

Landmark legislation will aid not only stretched budgets but Planet Earth, too

Posted August 30th, 2022

It may be known as the Inflation Reduction Act, legislation signed this month by President Joe Biden aimed to lower prescription drug, health care and energy costs and adjust the tax code in an economy experiencing high inflation.

Maryland church given ‘Cool Congregations Challenge’ award

Posted April 22nd, 2022

Woods Memorial Presbyterian Church in Severna Park, Maryland, has been named one of 12 national Interfaith Power & Light 2022 Cool Congregations Challenge winners receiving a runner-up award.

A climate scientist’s case for hope and healing

Posted October 27th, 2021

Climate scientist Dr. Katharine Hayhoe says the most important thing we can do to fight climate change is to talk about it. That’s precisely what she did Tuesday during a McLendon Scholar Program offered by New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C. Nearly 400 people listened in.