On Climate & Faith

April Tam Smith, Financial Professional, Renaissance NYC church attendee, and Founder of P.S. Kitchen -- a vegan restaurant that creates jobs for marginalized members of NYC and donates 100% of profits to sustainable charitable work -- is back with Victoria Moran, author, speaker, and producer of Prayer for Compassion and Creator of Mainstreet Vegan Podcast to talk about why more Christians are going vegan in this part II of our series. Music, Kis Kece Lányom, is written and performed by the lovely Asaran Earth Trio, a group dedicated to singing beautiful music from around the world. Download their music at http://asaranearthtrio.com/music/.

Between 2% and 6% of Americans self-identify as vegetarians. But what percent of vegans identify as Christian? This episode we're joined by April Tam Smith and Victoria Moran. April is a financial professional and Founder of P.S. Kitchen, a thriving restaurant in midtown NYC with exclusively plant-based meals. Victoria is the producer of the documentary Prayer for Compassion and the creator of the Mainstreet Vegan Podcast.They discuss why they feel called to live a vegan lifestyle, its links to caring for creation, as well as its connection to mitigating the climate crisis. Find out why more and more Christians are making this radical change to combat world hunger, conserve water, reduce emissions, and make lives healthier both now and for future generations. Music, Bye Bye Blackbird, is written and performed by the lovely Asaran Earth Trio, a group dedicated to singing beautiful music from around the world. Download their music at http://asaranearthtrio.com/music/.

In this interview with former South Carolina Congressman and Founder of RepublicEN, Bob Inglis shares why his politics, not his Christian faith, dominated his views on climate change. Bob explains why Christians must unite around the gospel and not political affiliation if we are going to alleviate human suffering caused by the climate crisis.  Music, Milho Verde, is written and performed by the lovely Asaran Earth Trio, a group dedicated to singing beautiful music from around the world. Download their music at http://asaranearthtrio.com/music/.

In this podcast, Dr. David Larrabee, PhD explains what it means to be a scientist and Christian in this day and age, why so many Christians embrace climate denial, and how the lack of climate action in the church is ultimately a symptom of competing eschatologies. Confronting common theological misconceptions, he illustrates the biblical vision of the new heaven and the new earth and how the underlying cause of climate change and social justice issues fundamentally stems from human greed, which only the hope of the resurrection can heal.  https://davidalarrabee.com/ https://www.huffpost.com/author/david-a-larrabee Music, Milho Verde, is written and performed by the lovely Asaran Earth Trio, a group dedicated to singing beautiful music from around the world. Download their music at http://asaranearthtrio.com/music/.

"Creation just screams God's beauty. Nature is God's ultimate love letter to humanity." If we destroy creation, we destroy one of the most beautiful signs of who God is, argues Dr. A.J. Swoboda, professor, author of Evangelical Ecotheology, and pastor of Theophilus in urban Portland, Oregon. Breaking the silence on the theological basis for earth keeping in the American church, Dr. Swoboda draws upon the bible and history to demonstrate how caring for creation is an act of worship of our Savior., Jesus Christ. In this interview, Dr. Swoboda shows us how the existence of climate change is actually a symptom of a deeper spiritual issue—sin—and how the gospel offers us the tools to meet the biggest ecological challenges of our time with hope, grace, and courage.

"Environmental pollution is the forgotten and often overlooked evil twin of climate change. It arises from many of the same sources as the greenhouse gases that drive global warming and is actually killing many more people here and now than climate change," argues Dr. Philip Landrigan, renown pediatrician, epidimiolgist and advocate of chlidren's health.  In this interview, we discuss the findings of the Lancet Commision on pollution and health (co-chaired by Dr. Landrigan), pollution's disproportionate effects on children and the poor, and what fighting it means in terms of economic costs and benefits.