Spark Cast

The "Great Barrier" is our psychologies, the biases, stereotypes, and fears we all have about our most important issues. Using empathetic listening and imagination, we can hopefully move from fright to productive conversations when it comes to discussing climate change.

The commands in Deuteronomy are predicated on a fundamental message, one of identity. God is teaching us to see ourselves first and foremost as Children of the Lord our God. Once we see that, everything else changes.

The top three things you can do about climate change.

All of us, including our spiritual ancestors, did better when they knew better. There are new behaviors for new lands, and we will continue to evolve as we move forward in the world.

In this second installment of the Green New Covenant, we discuss the biggest challenges facing the climate change crisis and how The Way of Jesus provides the direct response. Not only is the prophetic voice, a reconciled life, and a grand narrative view good faith, it may be the platform upon which we can, in partnership with God, bring salvation to our world.

God's covenant has always been with God's people in God's land. The relationship we have with the creation, our environment, is central to how we steward our identity and God's good world. In obedience, there are blessings. In disobedience, there are curses. Will we keep our end of the covenant?

What if God, in giving the Israelites the commission to speak and act boldly as His representatives in the world, is not just providing commands that they are to obey, but upending whole power structures? What if God is closing the gap of the "high power distance" that is accepted and perpetuated by both ancient and modern peoples?

Why does God seem to "throw some shade" to the Israelites, a barbed comment that reminds them that they're not so special? Perhaps it is because we all have a tendency to think highly of ourselves, and we forget who we were.

We pause to reflect on our "first principles," how the Gospel Justice work that we do, the study of our historical scriptures, and the faith of Jesus are all one and the same. And, why it matters.

A conversational Q&R interview with some live questions from the audience.