George and I took a break this holiday season and gave the mic to another organization doing great work: BTS Center's Climate Changed

Climate Changed is The BTS Center’s podcast. Well-crafted, warm, and invitational, Climate Changed explores some of the most pressing questions about faith, life, and climate change.

The hosts of Climate Changed explores honest climate grief, then move toward the work that remains: creating small, connected refuges of courage, kindness, and action. Meg Wheatley’s “islands of sanity” meets Debra Rienstra’s “refugia” to offer practical steps for leaders, neighbors, and faith communities.

• naming the limits of large-scale change
• choosing contribution without attachment to outcomes
• asking what’s needed here and am I the one
• building islands of sanity through dialogue and shared work
• refugia as ecological metaphor for local resilience
• balancing mitigation, adaptation, doom, and hopium
• reconnecting theology, hope, and climate action
• practical next steps for small congregations
• linking local projects across boundaries for strength
• learning from communities long practiced in survival

We would love to hear your thoughts and responses to our conversation. We would also welcome any suggestions you have for this show. 

Feel free to email Climate Changed at [email protected]. Learn about the many resources we share in our regular online programs by visiting theBTScenter.org.

The BTS Center offers theologically grounded programs of spiritual and vocational formation — workshops and retreats, learning communities, book studies, spiritual accompaniment circles, public conversations and rituals, and projects of applied research — all with an intention to cultivate and nurture spiritual leadership for a climate-changed world. The BTS Center believes there is a divine urgency, a sacred calling, to this work, and we invite you to join us.

About Religion and Justice
Religion and Justice is a podcast from the Wendland-Cook Program in Religion and Justice at Vanderbilt Divinity School. We explore the intersections of class, religion, labor, and ecology, uncovering how these forces shape the work of justice and solidarity. Each episode offers space for investigation, education, and organizing through conversations with scholars, organizers, and practitioners.

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