The Keynote Address by Pat Gonzales-Rogers for the Seventh Assembly is Beyond Extraction: Public Lands, Native Precepts, and Our Sacred Inheritance. The speech critiques the Western profit extraction model for causing ecological degradation and climate crisis. It contrasts this with traditional Native worldviews and governance frameworks like the ʻAha Kiole, Read more
2026 FL-iCAN! The Economy of Earth Agenda (subject to change) Friday, Sept 25 1 -3 pm Pre-event excursions:Echo Farms – N Ft Myers Plan 1 hr travel time. 4 pm Tabling set up Tabling 4-5:30 pm 5 pm Registration 5:30 pm Welcome and Introduction Rev Dr. Russell Read more
Connect. Learn. Put Creation Care Into Practice.Registration is open for the upcoming FL-iCAN! Assembly training for faith leaders across Florida. Register here: https://bit.ly/FLiCAN Economy in the New Testament means “the order of the household” and, in part, referred to the household of the whole inhabited earth. Nature wastes nothing, but humanity Read more
Dear Faith Leaders, I invite you to sign a letter to the leaders of the Florida Legislature in support of immigrants. The legislature is holding its budget talks and can choose to stop funding detention centers with emergency funds. Already nearly 300 faith leaders have signed it. You can find Read more
Sowing the Harvest Advocacy Days, Jan. 14-15 The 2026 Florida Faith Advocacy Days are Wednesday and Thursday, January 14-15, during the first week of the Florida Legislature. Make your plans to join us now. The 2026 theme is Sowing the Harvest! which explores how the ministries we do in our Read more
Register for Advocacy Days 2025 The Florida Faith Advocacy Days 2025 will be held from February 18-20, coinciding with the final week of committee meetings for the session commencing in March. The event will include a day of training followed by a day dedicated to visiting legislators and attending committee Read more
The Florida Legislature is in regular session in January through early March. Some 900 bills have been filed, though most of them will not be heard. What will be considered will effect the lives of every Floridian. In the last few years Florida has gone from an affordable place to Read more
Addressing Nationalism Religious nationalism is creating concerns globally. Nationalism, of any kind, is a construct of political power that often uses religious symbols to define who belongs in society. It is insidious, invasive, coercive, and destructive of true faith and democracy. It depends on the power to cast out rather Read more
For Immediate Release: April 27th, 2023 MEDIA RELEASE Nearly 70 Faith Leaders Sign Letter Asking Florida Legislators to Stop Anti-immigrant Bills SB 1718 and HB 1617 Nearly 70 faith leaders across the state of Florida signed on to a letter led by the Florida Council of Churches, expressing grave concern Read more