99% of the beef bought in grocery stories is raised in factory farms. These cows are grain fed instead of grass fed through grazing. They are injected with steroids to accelerate their growth and shot with antibiotics to deal with the diseases that come from living in confined spaces. 

 An environmentally friendly solution is to buy beef from local farms. Tim and Karen Harris own such a farm in Newton, NC and are members of Trinity Baptist Church, where I currently serve as interim pastor. Their beef is delicious.

This is their story.

You can learn more about or purchase their beef by emailing them at [email protected].

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The climate is getting hotter in the physical world and the political world.  We are talking louder, but not communicating better. Karen Dougherty wants to cool things down. Her weekly blog Unheating.com is helping do just that. In this podcast, we’ll talk with Karen, a mom who decided to educate herself about climate change and then pass along her knowledge to others.  

You can subscribe to her weekly blog by going to Unheating.com.

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Amy Brooks Paradise doesn't just talk about climate change.  She is on the front line to change how we deal with climate change.  Amy is the North American organizer for GreenFaith, an international organization committed to averting the climate crisis.  Standing in the tradition of the Old Testament prophets, Amy and her army of GreenFaith activists, challenge the banking industry for funding the fossil fuels which are imperiling the future of our grandchildren.

You can learn more about Amy and GreenFaith at their website: GreenFaith.org.  And you can email her at: [email protected]

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Woodland Baptist Church in San Antonio, Texas was C3’s first “Church of the Year" in 2022. Mike Massar, Associate Pastor of Woodland, tells the story of how their church became the first faith community in San Antonio to receive the Silver Star for environmental sustainability. This recognition led to many young families joining their church, desiring to be in a faith community that cared about the earth.

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This episode of the C3 podcast  features Catherine Wright, a Canadian Roman Catholic eco-theologian teaching at a small Baptist university in North Carolina.  Dr. Wright talks about Pope Francis' letter to the church, Ladauto Si, calling Christians to care for God's creation as an act of thanksgiving and praise to God.  

Dr. Wright is the Executive Director for The Collaborative for the Common Good and Associate Professor of Religion for Wingate University.  You can learn more about her work at thewrightecotheologian.com. 

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In this episode of Christians Caring for Creation podcasts we will hear the incredible story of a church in rural America producing enough solar energy to meet the needs of every resident in their community.  Dr. Dennis Atwood, pastor of First Baptist Church Mount Olive, NC, talks with C3 Founder, Don Gordon, about this innovative ministry which no one saw coming. 

Dr. Atwood, having done theological training at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, Eden Theological Seminary and Duke University, has served this congregation for the past 20 years. 

You can learn more about the ministries of FBC Mount Olive by going to their website: https://fbcmountolive.org/

See a video about the project here:  https://vimeo.com/723877906

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In this second episode of the C3 Podcast, Don Gordon talks with Robert Davies, climate physicist from Utah State University.  Davies, who has studied climate science for the past 15 years and has provided scientific consultation for NASA's space station, discloses the raw truth of a future seeking unrelenting economic growth.  He lays out the physics and math of our current trajectory of energy growth leading to global chaos.  He argues there are no non-radical futures.  We will either manage a transition toward de-growth or we will court chaos.

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In this first episode of the C3 Podcast, founder and CEO, Don Gordon, talks with Norman Wirzba, award-winning author and much sought after speaker at the intersection of theology and ecology.  

This episode focuses on Wirzba's recent book "Agrarian Spirit: Cultivating Faith, Community and the Land," (Notre Dame Press, 2022).  The conversation ranges from Plato in ancient Greece to stories of local farmers who have found a way to take back control of their farms from the agri-business conglomerates.  It's a call for everyone to embrace the agrarian spirit of knowing, nurturing and protecting the land.

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