Episodes
Tuesday Nov 23, 2021
Episode 61: All things new - eschatology and climate change
Tuesday Nov 23, 2021
Tuesday Nov 23, 2021
In this episode I reflect on how we read and misread Revelation, on God making all things new, and climate change action.
Tuesday Nov 16, 2021
Episode 60: It‘s a COP out. Responding as a Christian to COP26
Tuesday Nov 16, 2021
Tuesday Nov 16, 2021
Was COP26 a let down for you? Looking at the parable of the Good Samaritan is a reminder both to continue to advocate for the Green Climate fund, but also an end to coal.
Tuesday Nov 09, 2021
Episode 59: COP26 of serpents and trees
Tuesday Nov 09, 2021
Tuesday Nov 09, 2021
Fossil fuel industry at the heart of COP26 negotiations, while it is decided stopping deforestation is important. Sounds a lot like the Garden of Eden in Genesis 3: of serpents and trees.
Monday Nov 01, 2021
Episode 58: The serpent the preacher and expert knowledge
Monday Nov 01, 2021
Monday Nov 01, 2021
Christianity is sometimes viewed as being inherently anti-knowledge, particularly anti-science. In this episode I hope to show that the serpent of Genesis 2-3 is no Prometheus, but that the original couple break their covenant relationship with God. Ecclesiastes is not anti empirical knowledge, but simply states that there are limits on what we can know.
Monday Oct 25, 2021
Episode 57: No you are not entitled to your opinion
Monday Oct 25, 2021
Monday Oct 25, 2021
People often in argument take recourse to the view that they are entitled to their opinion, and can challenge experts on topics like vaccines and climate change. Christians can be the worst at this. But you are only entitled to what you can argue for, and need to respect expertise.
Monday Oct 18, 2021
Episode 56: Climate Anxiety - Interview with Jessica Morthorpe
Monday Oct 18, 2021
Monday Oct 18, 2021
In a time of rapidly changing climate, people, especially younger people, are experiencing climate change related anxiety. The church has a role, particularly towards its own, to engage in pastoral care, and equip people to process this anxiety and express it positively in the form of activism.
Monday Oct 11, 2021
Episode 55: Creation Care in the Uniting Church with Jess Morthorpe
Monday Oct 11, 2021
Monday Oct 11, 2021
The Uniting Church in Australia has creation care as an important part of its theology and praxis. In this episode, Jessica Morthorpe and I explore how this looks in her experience.
Monday Oct 04, 2021
Episode 54: Five Leaf Eco-Awards - Interview with Jess Morthorpe
Monday Oct 04, 2021
Monday Oct 04, 2021
This episode is the first installment of a three part interview with ecotheologian and climate activist Jessica Morthorpe, discussing her Five Leaf Eco-Awards for Australian churches.
Monday Sep 27, 2021
Episode 53: COVID, earthquakes, and the end of the world?
Monday Sep 27, 2021
Monday Sep 27, 2021
Conspiracy theories over the origins of COVID, vaccines, and masks have much in common with Christian end times thinking over earthquakes and other natural disasters. In this episode I deconstruct these ideas.
Tuesday Sep 21, 2021
Episode 52: Philip Goff‘s Panpsychism, Climate Change, and Theism
Tuesday Sep 21, 2021
Tuesday Sep 21, 2021
In this episode I read Philip Goff's book Galileo's Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness and reflect on theistic belief, and climate change.