Caleb sits down over breakfast with his longtime friend Tera to chat about food insecurities, farming, the breaking of harmful inertias, and the joy of the journey! Enjoy this fun dialogue as you consider your place in the story of food justice!

Learn more about Tera’s work with Sweet Radish!

https://www.sweetradish.org/

and The Nashville Food Project:

https://www.thenashvillefoodproject.org/

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What is sabbath for you? Is it something that offers life for you and your family? Is it something offering life for God’s creation through you? This week, we sit down with author and professor Travis West as he drops some wonderful truth-bombs about sabbath and we explore his wonderful new book, The Sabbath Way: Making Room in Your Life for Rest, Connection, and Delight

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Is it possible, that in a time when we are more distant from God’s creation than ever, our children are the ones being sacrificed on the altars of the gods of consumerism? Explore this familiar Genesis story with Abraham, Isaac, and the God who provides!

Here is some of the research referenced in this episode:

Richardson, Miles. “Modelling Nature Connectedness Within Environmental Systems: Human-Nature Relationships from 1800 to 2020 and Beyond.” Earth 6.3 (2025): 82. https://doi.org/10.3390/earth6030082.

Rosi, Eleonora, Alessandro Crippa, Marco Pozzi, Stefano De Francesco, Mariachiara Fioravanti, Maddalena Mauri, Massimo Molteni, Luisa Morello, Luca Tosti, et al. “Exposure to Environmental Pollutants and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: An Overview of Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses.” Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 30.52 (2023): 111676–92. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-023-30173-9.

Wrigley-Field, Elizabeth, Rafeya V. Raquib, Kaitlyn M. Berry, Keeley J. Morris, and Andrew C. Stokes. “Mortality Trends Among Early Adults in the United States, 1999-2023.” JAMA Netw Open 8.1 (2025): e2457538. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.57538.

“How Air Pollution Can Affect Kids’ Future Behavior, Health and Learning - Science, Public Health Policy and the Law,” 3 April 2025. https://publichealthpolicyjournal.com/how-air-pollution-can-affect-kids-future-behavior-health-and-learning/.

“The Evidence - The Anxious Generation,” https://www.anxiousgeneration.com/resources/the-evidence.

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What does ecology tell us about our need for involvement in the natural world? What are the best ways to protect God's creation? And what are the markers of science denialism? All this and more unfold in this conversation with Dr. Rick Lindroth as he shares his scientific expertise.

More from Rick here.

UW-Madison website:  https://lindroth.russell.wisc.edu/

Research from Rick: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=6aX0cFIAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdateLumen Center website: https://slbf.org/lumen-center

BioLogos article from Rick: https://biologos.org/articles/a-liturgy-of-land-and-call-to-creation-connection

Season of Creation: https://seasonofcreation.org/

Faith in Place Summit: https://aes-summit.org/

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Would you be willing to demolish everything you’ve built in order to follow God’s call and plant something new? Listen in as we hear from Matthew Sleeth share about his journey from being an ER physician to becoming a preacher for creation care. Matthew also shares about some of his writing and reveals Biblical insights and what he names as “God’s special watermark in Scripture!”

Matthew’s Website: https://www.matthewsleethmd.org/

Blessed Earth: https://blessedearth.org/

Creation Care Summit 2.0: Holiness in all creation: https://nazarenesforcreationcare.ticketspice.com/creation-care-summit-20-holiness-in-all-creation

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What does the power of God have to do with powering the world? What kind of power does our God exhibit? What can that teach us about our relationship with the Earth and our limitless quest for energy and growth? Join Caleb and the Director of Theological Education and Formation at Creation Justice Ministries, Derrick Weston, as they dialogue together and take a closer look at the CJM annual resource, The Power of God: From Extractive Theology to Transformative Faith.

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Music finds its way into our bones and moves us at our core in ways that words nor data often can. In this last episode of season two, Caleb is joined by artist and musician Susan Shann! Along with some great conversation with Susan, we get to hear some of her inspiring songs in this living room hang.

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The people of the San Carlos Apache Tribe in Arizona are struggling to protect their sacred place, Oak Flat, from being destroyed through copper mining. How might this moment be a heart-check for the church to re-examine our posture in the world within God’s ecosystem of creation? We are a people created within an entanglement amidst a culture obsessed with extraction. True riches aren't in the form of metals to be mined, but in the rivers, trees, and wildlife of God's good creation.

Learn more about and donate to Apache Stronghold: http://apache-stronghold.com/index.html

More about the situation at Oak Flat:

https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/051225_oak_flat_pause/judge-pauses-oak-flat-mine-construction-protecting-apache-holy-site-now/

https://pcusa.org/news-storytelling/news/2025/5/8/supporters-oak-flat-advocate-its-protection-critical-time-sacred-land

https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/oak-flat-supporters-run-to-apache-holy-land-court-hearing-21710128

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-environment/2025/05/05/federal-court-to-hear-plea-to-halt-a-land-swap-for-oak-flt-copper-mine/83371238007/

https://www.kjzz.org/tribal-natural-resources/2025-03-21/on-death-row-fate-of-oak-flat-now-in-the-hands-of-u-s-supreme-court

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Jesus often went off-trail into the wild places to pray, what does it look like for us today, to hike deeper within creation to connect with our God? In this episode we hear from author Maureen E. Wise about her book “Strength for my Path: 52 Devotions from the Hiking Trail”!

Find “Strength for My Path: 52 Devotions from the Hiking Trail” and more from Maureen Wise:

https://maureenwisebooks.com/

https://www.instagram.com/maureenwisebooks/

https://www.facebook.com/MaureenWiseBooks

Mauren’s “Iris March” work:

https://irismarchbooks.com/

Check out and Watch: The Letter: A Message for our Earth

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How might Christians engage more deeply in the sacred work of pollination as meaningful expressions of our faith?We need these pollinators to thrive... but the data points to a time of crisis. Where do we go from here?

Resource Mention:

Engaging Missions through Church Energy Management -offered by Energy for Purpose (A Rocha, Love Your Place)

https://loveyourplace.org/posts/82772262?utm_source=manual

Here are three great Nashville-based native plant / polinator organizations/efforts to support and get your seeds!

Tennessee Environmental Council https://www.tectn.org/generatesomebuzz.html

Neighbors 4 Plants: https://www.neighbors4nativeplants.org/

Plant for a Change: https://www.plantforachange.com/

The Bee Health Hub https://beehealthhub.ucdavis.edu/

Butterfly Garden Kit https://shop.environmentamerica.org/products/butterfly-garden-kit

Sources / Studies:

https://www.science.org/content/article/where-have-all-insects-gone

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/03/28/north-america-pollinator-crisis-study/82649992007/

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2023989118

https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2418742122

https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/how-bee-stings-could-be-the-future-of-medicine/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7551670/

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/650342507631075013d25a2c/t/67b7739b905caa630271a5da/1740075932864/Colony+Loss+Survey_PR+%2802%29.pdf

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/us-honey-bee-deaths-soar-grocery-store-bills-take-hit-rcna199066

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/03/06/us-butterfly-population-decline/81350506007/

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adp4671

https://environmentamerica.org/articles/good-news-and-bad-news-for-monarch-butterflies-and-what-you-can-do/

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