Texas Interfaith Power and Light is an environmentalist project of the Texas Interfaith Center for Public Policy, also known as the Texas Impact Education Fund. ^{1 2}

Background

Texas Interfaith Power and Light is an environmentalist project of the left-of-center Texas Interfaith Center for Public Policy, also known as the Texas Impact Education Fund, a charitable organization, and functions as its environmentalist advocacy program affiliate. ^{2 3 1}

The organization justifies its advocacy and other activities on religious grounds it claims are shared by major world religions such as Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, and Islam, and it promotes links on its website to religious advocacy material from aligned left-of-center environmentalist organizations such as GreenFaith, the Jewish Climate Leadership Coalition run by Adamah, Creation Justice Ministries, Islamic Foundation for Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Interfaith Environmental Network of Austin, Eco-Justice Ministries, and the Environmental Justice Leadership Forum. ⁴

Texas Interfaith Power and Light maintains regional advocacy teams based in metropolitan areas of Texas. Some of these teams are largely digital, operating by way of email and Facebook, while others are part of the organization’s aligned religious institutional network. ¹

Activities

Texas Interfaith Power and Light’s 2009 advocacy guide for religious communities, To Mend the World: A Justice Framework for Creation Care, alleged a causal connection between human activity and ecological trends and included speculations that trends, particularly those that negatively affect human life, involving unstable weather patterns and sea levels would become dramatically more pronounced in the future. The guide advocated that religious communities start environmentalist projects, such as advocacy campaigns for the reduction of the use of water, volunteer organizing or fundraising efforts for environmental restoration projects of local bodies of water, sponsoring panels featuring environmentalist discussions of energy issues, and encouraging people to volunteer with humane societies. ⁵

On its website, Texas Interfaith Power and Light recommends that its supporters vote in primary elections, consult the candidate lists of the left-of-center League of Women Voters of Texas, and assess candidates based on their endorsements, particularly those published in the endorsement guide of Texas Impact. ⁶

Texas Interfaith Power and Light regularly publishes blog posts that advocate for environmentalist aims. For instance, the organization has published posts advocating for Texas to adopt energy sources favored by environmentalists, and for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to maintain the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan. ⁷

Funding

Texas Interfaith Power and Light is a fiscally sponsored project of the Texas Interfaith Center for Public Policy. Texas Interfaith Power and Light’s advocacy guide for religious communities, To Mend the World: A Justice Framework for Creation Care, was published in the 2009 edition of Texas Interfaith Center for Public Policy’s journal Justice Frameworks. That edition was funded by a grant from the Trull Foundation. ⁵

Leadership

As of 2026, Beaman Floyd was the president of the board of directors of Texas Interfaith Power and Light’s parent organization, the Texas Interfaith Center for Public Policy, as well as the director of the Texas Coalition for Affordable Insurance Solutions and a board member of Habitat for Humanity Texas. Previously, he was a legislative staffer with the Legal Division of the Louisiana House of Representatives, staffer with Louisiana Public Television, and an infantryman in the United States Army. ^{8 9}

Katrina Martich, the author of a featured blog on the Texas Interfaith Power and Light’s website as of 2026, was at that time the organization’s point-of-contact for members of the organization’s affiliates seeking involvement or placement on a regional email list. Martich was serving at that time as a deaconess in the Lutheran Diaconal Association and as a co-facilitator in the EcoFaith Action Network of the Northwest Intermountain Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. ^{10 1 7}

1. “Getting Involved.” Texas Interfaith Power and Light. Accessed February 27, 2026. https://txipl.org/content/getting-involved.
2. “Texas Impact Education Fund.” ProPublica. Accessed February 27, 2026. https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/742989021.
3. “Texas Impact.” ProPublica. Accessed February 27, 2026. https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/741902234.
4. “Religious Resources – Caring for Creation.” Texas Interfaith Power and Light. Accessed February 27, 2026. https://txipl.org/Sermon_Resources_Caring_for_Creation.
5. To Mend the World: A Justice Framework for Creation Care. Texas Impact Education Fund. 2009. Accessed February 27, 2026. https://www.scribd.com/document/100939130/To-Mend-the-World.
6. “Vote to Advocate.” Texas Interfaith Power and Light. Accessed February 27, 2026. https://www.txipl.org/content/vote-advocate.
7. “Katrina’s blog.” Texas Interfaith Power and Light. Accessed February 27, 2026. https://www.txipl.org/blogs/katrina.
8. “About TCAIS.” The Texas Coalition for Affordable Insurance Solutions. Accessed February 27, 2026. https://www.tcais.org/about.
9. “Texas Interfaith Center for Public Policy: Our Board Members.” Texas Impact. Accessed February 27, 2026. https://texasimpact.org/texas-interfaith-center-for-public-policy-board-of-directors/.
10. “2026 Workshop Sessions at a Glance.” Valparaiso University: 2026 Institute. 2026. Accessed February 27, 2026. https://www.valpo.edu/about/calling-and-spiritual-life/institute-of-liturgical-studies/institute/workshops/.