Texas Impact's Weekly Witness

How Did We Get Here? Unpacking the Origins of the Vaccines Controversy

Mar 31, 2023

This week we welcome Terri Burke, Executive Director of the Immunization Partnership, to talk about the importance of vaccinations–one of the 10 major advances in public health of the 20th century–and the history behind the vaccine opposition movement, which is grounded in a discredited study in the mid 2000's.

Ep. 243 Keeping Texas Covered: Partnering to Recertify Medicaid Clients Post-Pandemic

Mar 24, 2023

This week we welcome Diana Forester, Director of Health Policy with Texans Care for Children. We are just over halfway through the 140 day legislative session, and Texas Impact has many priorities, and maternal health and Medicaid for Texas families are always important legislative priorities for Texans of faith...

Ep.242 "Silence Has Not Kept Us Safe"

Mar 17, 2023

This week we welcome Texas Impact’s Executive Director Bee Moorhead and Advocacy Director Josh Houston to the program as we reach the midpoint of the 140 day legislative session.

Ep. 241 "Remarkable Common Ground": Faith Communities Call for Policies to Reduce Gun Violence

Mar 10, 2023

This week we are joined by Reverend Rob Mueller, pastor of Divine Redeemer Presbyterian Church in San Antonio, and one of the clergy leaders of Texas Impact’s Ending Gun Violence issues team. We discuss the work Rob is doing to engage his denominational body–Mission Presbytery–in policy advocacy and the...

Ep. 240 Faith Over Fear

Mar 3, 2023

This week Scott talked with Jamila English, Legislative Director for the Texas Chapter of Emgage, a foundation with the goal of educating and mobilizing Muslim American voters in support of policies that enable their communities to thrive and democracy to flourish. They discussed the upcoming Texas Muslim Capitol Day...