The Earth is our shared home — a sacred gift entrusted to our care. From sky to soil, river to mountain, it calls us to protect all life.
This pilgrimage is a spiritual and moral journey — an act of witness, confession, and hope. We walk carrying prayers for a livable climate, for justice, and for future generations.
Our path begins in the Permian Basin, the heart of New Mexico’s oil and gas country, and ends at the State Capitol in Santa Fe, where our leaders face a choice: to serve the few or act for the common good.
We walk to call for:
This pilgrimage is both confessional and prophetic — a call to act with courage, integrity, and love for our shared home. It is a journey of hope, learning, and community — witnessing that a more just and sustainable future is already taking root.
Our walking route will carry us from the oil fields and overburdened communities of the Permian Basin to Santa Fe's State Capitol, bearing the prayers of people of faith and conscience who seek a livable climate and a just transition away from fossil fuels. With every step of this journey, we offer our own bodies and feet as witnesses to both the communities suffering under extraction and the leaders who must choose a different path forward.
"The times are urgent; let us slow down," — Dr. Bayo Akomolafe
Three of us from the New Mexico Interfaith Power & Light team will undertake this pilgrimage, carrying not certainty but questions; not judgment but solidarity. We walk as imperfect witnesses—people who drive cars, heat our homes, and participate daily in the fossil fuel economy we hope to transform. We don't claim to have all the answers, but we know this: we all share one home, one planet, one New Mexico. This pilgrimage is an invitation to ourselves, our neighbors, and our leaders to imagine and build a better path forward together.
Desirée Bernard
Executive Director
Rev. Clara Sims
Assistant Executive Director
Jim Ekstrand
Marketing & Communications
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