Interfaith Power & Light

A Religious Response to Global Warming

Kiss the Ground Documentary Inspires Action to Regenerate the World’s Soils

“Kiss the Ground” is a new film how about how regenerating the world’s soils has the potential to rapidly stabilize Earth’s climate, restore lost ecosystems, and create abundant food supplies. This film explains why transitioning to regenerative agriculture could be key in rehabilitating the planet, while simultaneously invigorating a new sense of hope and inspiration in viewers.

This film has been chosen as the featured film of Interfaith Power & Light’s Faith Climate Action Week, April 16-25, 2021. Our theme this year is Sacred Ground: Cultivating Connections between our Food, our Faith, and the Climate. Learn more about the week here.

Plan to screen it at your congregation. Screen it virtually for free from April 10 through 26. View it with your family or Covid-pod in the safety of your home. Or as a congregation screen it by inviting your members to view it at home, or screen it in-person following the COVID-safe regulations in your area. Some congregations are planning to host small, outdoor, distanced screenings projecting the film on a wall or screen. And some congregations are passing around a DVD to congregational families or Covid-pods for small screenings. DVDs available for sale through IPL, online screening is free.

REGISTER HERE to view the film online free + take part in the webinar, “Sacred Ground: A Message of Hope” with the filmmaker Josh Tickell, and Veronica Kyle, Statewide Outreach Director of Faith in Place, IPL’s Illinois affiliate who has supported many successful “Congregational supported Agriculture” farms serving the food insecure in the Chicago area.

Download the free screening kit with faith-based discussions questions here.

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Thanks to a partnership with Kiss the Ground and Roco Films, Interfaith Power & Light is able to offer you this inspiring film!

Submit your question for the film team

Come Hell or High Water: The Battle for Turkey Creek

    Submit your questions to the filmmaker Leah Mahan, and the advocate in the film, Derrick Evans, to be asked during the webinar.




    Come Hell or High Water: The Battle for Turkey Creek

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    Hundreds of supporters joined Interfaith Power & Light in August to view Come Hell or High Water: The Battle for Turkey Creek, an award winning film about the unjust impact of climate change on an historic black community, and attended an IPL webinar to learn ways we can practice being allies in the fight for safe and healthy black communities.

    Come Hell or High Water: The Battle for Turkey Creek follows the painful but inspiring journey of Derrick Evans, a Boston teacher who moves home to coastal Mississippi when the graves of his ancestors are bulldozed to make way for the sprawling city of Gulfport. Over the course of a decade, Derrick and his neighbors stand up to powerful corporate interests and politicians and face ordeals that include Hurricane Katrina and the BP oil disaster in their struggle for self-determination and environmental justice.

    The webinar was a fascinating conversation with filmmaker Leah Mahan and Derrick Evans, the activist featured in the film. You can view the recording of the webinar on our Facebook page.

    Moderated by Susan Stephenson, we heard exciting updates on the fight to achieve environmental justice for Turkey Creek and learned the power of a well-told story in bringing about change.

    The film can now be accessed via Bullfrog Films.

    The Condor & The Eagle

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    THE CONDOR & THE EAGLE from Film Impact Team on Vimeo.

    Four Indigenous environmental leaders embark on an extraordinary trans-continental adventure from the Canadian plains to deep into the heart of the Amazonian jungle to unite the peoples of North and South America and deepen the meaning of “Climate Justice”. The Condor & The Eagle documentary offers a glimpse into a developing spiritual renaissance as the film four protagonists learn from each other’s long legacy of resistance to colonialism and its extractive economy. Their path through the jungle takes them on an unexpectedly challenging and liberating journey, which will forever change their attachment to the Earth and one another. Read More…

    Special Screening Offer

    IPL took part in the Interfaith Coalition for Climate Justice film event as part of IPL’s summer film series 2020. Viewers watched the film and participated in a webinar with the film protagonists. It was a fascinating and revealing conversation.

    The film can now be rented for $6 on Vimeo.

    The Human Element

    Over 9,200 people viewed this amazing film through IPL this year thank to the generosity of the filmmaker James Balog.

    Click here for a FaceBook livestream recording of a webinar conversation about the film with Mr. Balog and IPL President, Rev. Susan Hendershot.

    “What an incredible film. It is beautiful and hopeful and eloquent. We protect what we love – what a great way to inspire us to make change to protect our Earth’s air, fire, water and land.”  Patty McGrath, Potomac, Maryland

    In an arresting new documentary from the producers of Racing Extinction and Chasing Ice, environmental photographer James Balog captures the lives of everyday Americans on the front lines of climate change. With rare compassion and heart, The Human Element relays captivating stories from coast-to-coast, inspiring us to reevaluate our relationship with the natural world. Spanish subtitle version available when you sign up.

    Thanks to a partnership with Earth Vision Film, Interfaith Power & Light was able to offer you this inspiring film. It’s a must see for people of faith concerned about the impact of climate change on human life in the United States. THANK YOU MR. BALOG AND THE EARTH VISION INSTITUTE!

    Dvds are sold out, only Blu Rays are available.

    BLU RAY is available for purchase here

    Download the Screening Kit here

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