Faith in Place

10/08/2026

Election day is November 3! If you don't have a plan to vote, now is the time to make one! Head over to TurboVote, a free resource, for important dates, see your polling location and to check if you're registered!

TurboVote also helps you see what your actual ballot will look like and can help you vote early!

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Pass this on to your friends to encourage them to plan a plan to vote! 🗳️

10/07/2026

10/05/2026

We believe people deserve to know about hidden pollution in your home so that households can take steps to protect their health. That’s why we partnered with citizen scientists to test 100 homes for health-harming air pollution.

Read more about the project and what they found from two of our volunteers: https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/10/01/opinion-chicago-indoor-air-quality-testing

Chicago Tribune

Many residents knew carbon monoxide could be dangerous at high levels. But far fewer knew about the health risks posed by nitrogen dioxide.

10/01/2026

Join us for our monthly call next week on Thursday with Rev. Kim Crutcher.

Reverend Kim Crutcher is a community herbalist, licensed psychotherapist, artist, and Interfaith Minister. Using a blend of evidence-based therapies, trauma-informed approaches, culturally sensitive frameworks, and traditional healing practices she offers therapy, education, and consultations to individuals and groups.

As Herbalism Conductor for Chicago’s Urban Growers Collective, she shares over 30 years of passion about herbs, systems thinking, and healing. Kim works to support UGC’s mission of growing food to build and support healthy communities through workshops, healing events and a three year apprenticeship program.

She uses the term ‘Conductor’ in homage to Harriet Tubman and as a reminder that redemption and freedom are available when individuals are offered an opportunity to come into relationship with the natural world.

RSVP: https://bit.ly/monthly-call-oct2026

09/30/2026

Wow! Our team could not be more grateful for everyone that joined us these last 2 days for the Annual Environment & Spirituality Summit. You listened, you asked questions, and you took the time to reflect on the topic of Grounded Resistance. We had over 2,500 registrants, over 100 sponsors, and over 60 watch parties for the Keynote Session with Bill McKibben across the nation.

A huge thank you to our wonderful speakers - Matthias Beier, Ph.D., Valarie Kaur, Mary Evelyn Tucker and Bill McKibben from Third Act! Your wisdom will stay with us and we’re excited to continue exploring ideas you brought to us during your sessions.

If you missed the summit, please register and you will get the recordings and speaker resources for free: aes-summit.org.

You can also view the livestream on our YouTube.

Please stay connected to Faith in Place! We have virtual calls each month where we deep dive into important topics with speakers. We’re also planning a 2027 Action Week (stay tuned!)

Thank you!

09/30/2026

09/30/2026

"It does strike me as beautiful and powerful that we get to understand this world as the complicated, buzzing, mysterious, cruel, God-haunted place that it is - a museum of divine intent, of extraordinary meaning - and that we are the ones who get to try and do what we can to preserve as much of it, as much of creation as we still can."

Bill McKibben for the AES Summit Keynote Session

09/29/2026

"If you picture a boatload full of solar panels crossing the sea, those solar panels over their lifetime will produce 100 or 150 times as much energy as a boatload full of coal crossing the ocean. Indeed, something like 50% of all the ship traffic in planet Earth is just carrying coal and gas and oil back and forth across the seas."

Bill McKibben for the AES Summit Keynote

09/29/2026

"California is probably the place in this country that's taking it most seriously. California now produces most days more than 100% of its electricity from renewable power for long stretches of the day. At night, when the sun goes down in California, the biggest source of supply to the grid are now batteries that spent the afternoon soaking up excess sunshine. California; fourth largest economy in the world, is using almost 50 percent less natural gas to produce electricity than they were for three years ago. That's a big change in a big place."

Bill McKibben for the AES Summit Keynote

09/29/2026

Bill McKibben for the AES Summit Keynote

"We live on a planet where the cheapest way to make power is to point a sheet of glass at the sun, and the second cheapest way is to take advantage of the fact that that sun heats the earth differentially, producing the breezes that turn those majestic turbines. And we also now have, over this same five years, the advent of ever cheaper and ever larger batteries capable of storing that energy when the sun goes down or the wind drops, and so the things that we can do with them are truly remarkable, and we see it starting to happen."