A Pilgrimage for Our Shared Home
🗓️ January, 12 2026 to February 5, 2026
📍 From the Permian Basin to the State Capitol in Santa Fe for Climate Action Day
The Earth is our shared home, a sacred place entrusted to us across generations. From the sky to the mountains and rivers and plants and peoples - it is a home we are called to cherish and protect. This pilgrimage is a journey born from that call—a spiritual and moral act of bearing witness to this precious and imperiled world and our particular place upon it.
We walk honoring all native peoples who have loved and stewarded these lands from time immemorial and who continue to show us how to live with respect for the lives destined to come. We walk holding the prayers of people across this state who long for a livable climate and flourishing future. We walk in confession of our own complicity in systems and worldviews of greed and waste, exploitation and extraction. We walk in active hope for the transformation of our lifeways away from fossil fuels and toward a more just and sustainable future for all creation. We walk to implore our leaders to act with moral integrity upon the urgency of the climate crisis and its consequences for all generations of New Mexicans, present and future.
Our walk begins in the Permian Basin, the heart of New Mexico’s oil and gas country, and ends at the state capital in Santa Fe. Here our leaders have a powerful choice. Remain beholden to the financial interests of the few or commit to the common good of all. To this seat of power we bring the stories of the people – communities already feeling acutely the impacts of a changing climate - from drought to fire to flood. Communities who are tired of living in sacrifice zones; tired of worrying that the air they breathe and the water they drink is poisoned by the pollution of industry; tired of being told there is no other way to secure a future for our children other than to pollute the land, air, and water they will inherit. Communities who will not give up on the possibility of building a world that reflects the truth of our interdependence.
We walk to ask our leaders to acknowledge this truth of interdependence and to commit to a more just and sustainable future. We walk to ask our leaders to craft and pass policies that will protect both people and planet. Policies that enshrine our fundamental right to a stable climate and livable future. Policies that transition us away from the fossil fuels warming our planet and toward cleaner and more renewable forms of energy. Policies that hold the oil and gas industry accountable to the waste and pollution riddled across our lands and waterways. Policies that protect communities from what is already set in motion – the public health threats of extreme and worsening weather events.
This pilgrimage is both confessional and prophetic, both inward and outward looking. We walk confessing that we do not have all the answers to how we find our way out of the wicked complexities of the climate crisis. We walk proclaiming that it is the duty of us all, especially our leaders, to commit to asking the difficult and deep questions of how we transform our ways of living and the energy we require to sustain those ways of living.
This pilgrimage is a call to action for us all. It is a journey of hope, celebrating that a more just and sustainable future is not only possible but already arriving. It is an opportunity to learn, to connect, and to witness the power of community in the face of immense challenge. We invite all people to join us on this path—to walk with us, to pray with us, and to add your voice to the chorus of creation calling for a world where all can thrive.
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