Podcast appearances and mentions of mitch hescox

In the quest to find common ground between Republicans and Democrats on climate solutions, communities of faith play an important role in bridging the partisan divide. The Evangelical Environmental Network, whose members are focused on caring for creation, is one of the organizations working in this advocacy space. This month, we hear from Rev. Mitch Hescox, President of EEN, about their efforts to educate and mobilize evangelical Christians to manifest a stable climate and a healthy, pollution-free world. Rev. Hescox, co-author of Caring for Creation: The Evangelical Guide To Climate Change and a Healthy Environment, serves as a member of the National Association of Evangelicals' Board of Directors and EPA's Clean Air Act Advisory Committee.

In this episode, Commissioner Tim Echols and KC Boyce talk with American Conservation Coalition founder, Benji Backer, about his organization and his electric vehicle drive across America. In the final segment, Rev. Mitch Hescox discusses the creation care movement.

In this series, we ask, how can spiritual connection with our environment help us enter into right and restorative relationship with the earth, including human and nonhuman inhabitants? By talking with folks from different faith traditions, we investigate what spiritual connection is and how it happens, the composition of the environment, and the potential for spiritual connection to meaningfully affect the destructive human systems responsible for climate change. In this episode, the Rev. Mitch Hescox discusses his work with the Evangelical Environmental Network, understandings of creation care, and so much more.

Mitch Hescox is President of the Evangelical Environmental Network (creationcare.org). Mitch and Paul Douglas are coauthors of Caring for Creation: The Evangelicals Guide to Climate Change and a Healthy Environment. Larry Linenschmidt talks with Mitch about the Biblical call for Christians to care for God's creation, the health risk of water, air, and soil pollution, particularly to children, the damage to our oceans caused by plastic pollution, and the impact of a warming earth.

Mitch Hescox is President of the Evangelical Environmental Network (creationcare.org). Mitch and Paul Douglas are coauthors of Caring for Creation: The Evangelicals Guide to Climate Change and a Healthy Environment. Larry Linenschmidt talks with Mitch about the Biblical call for Christians to care for God's creation, the health risk of water, air, and soil pollution, particularly to children, the damage to our oceans caused by plastic pollution, and the impact of a warming earth.

How much does our polluted environment contribute to our diseases and sicknesses? Mitch Hescox of the Evangelical Environmental Network and Lyndsay Moseley of the American Lung Association explain the connection. Rusty Pritchard shows how pollutants and waste often end up in places populated by the poor.

Many in our communities suffer from the rising air- and water-borne toxin levels in our local environments. From Asthma to Autism, one of the most hotly contested debates in the medical world today is, “How much does our polluted environment contribute to our diseases and sicknesses?” Gabe Lyons talks with Mitch Hescox of The Evangelical Environmental Network and Lyndsay Moseley of The American Lung Association's Healthy Air Campaign. Also, maps show how the poor disproportionately live in some of the worst environmental places. Resource economist and Tearfund advisor Rusty Pritchard helps us focus our understanding of place and space toward an awareness of the geography in which we live. He helps us understand how past decisions have created unjust environments for under-resourced people groups, and our opportunity to change this reality. What responsibilities do we have to ensure safe, healthy environments?

The Rev. Mitchell C. Hescox serves as President/C.E.O. of The Evangelical Environmental Network and speaks nationally on creation care, especially on the environmental life threatening impacts on the poor and defenseless.  Rev. Hescox co-authored Creation Care: The Evangelical’s Guide to Climate Change and a Healthy Environment with Paul Douglas, published numerous articles and contributed to Sacred Acts: How Churches are working together to Protect Earth’s Climate by New Society Publishers.  He has testified before Congress, appeared on CNN, NPR, PRI and numerous radio programs both Christian and secular.  Named one of the ten Environmental Religious Saints in the Huffington Post, Mitch lead the 300 mile Creation Care Walk from West Virginia to Washington, DC  and the 80 mile Gulf Coast Prayer Walk during the Deep Water Horizon Oil Spill.  Mitch led EEN to successful championing of the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards. He serves on the National Association of Evangelicals Board of Directors. Before EEN, Mitch pastored a local church for 18 years, and before the call to ordained ministry served the coal and utility industry as Director, Fuel Systems for Allis Mineral Systems. He is married to Clare with four (4) grown children and four (4) grandchildren. Music is provided by bensound.com. Creative Commons License

"Paul Douglas is an Evangelical Christian who lives in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area of Minnesota. He’s also a degreed meteorologist and an entrepreneur. Rounding out the list is the fact that he is a climate change believer. I first heard about Paul Douglas through my friend Kevin Shannon who spent an eventful couple of years in Louisiana before returning to Minnesota. Paul Douglas co-authored this book on Christians’ and climate change. Douglas and Mitch Hescox co-authored a book, Caring For Creation, to urge their fellow Christians to begin taking climate change seriously. The overarching concept is that Christians are called upon to be good stewards of God’s creation, that it appears things have gotten out of hand, and that this creates a call for Christians to drop their skepticism and get engaged in the process of cleaning up the climate on the planet we call home. All great spiritual traditions include among their tenets an intergenerational mandate to care for the planet so that future generations can enjoy it as they have. Somewhere in the industrial age, this concept was lost or shoved down the hierarchy of priorities of those who have led companies, been captains of industry, investors and elected officials. Short-term thinking either obscured the long-term view that we all learned as part of our spiritual formation, or it replaced it all together. One of the most insidious notions to arise in post-World War II America was the concept of maximizing shareholder value. This Milton Friedman concept elevated profits above all other motivations and concerns for business leaders. The concept led to a constricting of the field of corporate vision which drove companies to discount or even ignore concerns of their workers, the well-being of the communities where their plants were located, and, yes, even the impact those company operations had on the air we breath, the water we drink and the soil in which we grow our food. Douglas is also a former cigarette smoker. During the interview he recalls how he came to learn about the disinformation campaigns waged by tobacco companies against the science which showed a connection between cigarette smoking and lung and other cancers. Douglas believes — and a growing body of evidence suggests — that the fossil fuel industry has torn several pages from the Fear Uncertainty and Doubt playbook to feed skepticism about climate change. Douglas believes that “things are not hopeless and we are not helpless.” This is the message he takes to his fellow Christians about climate change. And it’s a recurring theme in our interview. ••• Thanks to Matt Roberts, AOC’s Community Production Manager for help locating the music used in this segment. A Foolish Game by Hans Atom (c) copyright 2017 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/hansatom/55394 Ft: Snowflake"

The Rev. Mitch Hescox, Presidnet and CEO of the Evangelical Environmental Network, is the guest with Don Corrigan's podcast series. Hescox explains what the Evangelical Environmental Network is all about and how evangelicals can help find conservative solutions to the pollution and environmental issues that harm God's creation, the earth, and our children. Photo is courtesy of Rev. Mitch Hescox.

Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com

Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com

Chuck Morse, Patrick O'Heffernan and Deacon Mike Iwanowicz are joined in the first hour by Linda J. Skitka, professor and the associate chair of psychology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In the second hour the guest is Rev. Mitch Hescox, President & CEO of the Evangelical Environmental Network. We discuss the differences between liberals and conservatives and the influence of such theories of Dr. George Lackoff with Chuck claiming that his research is fantastical and utterly unfounded. We discuss evangelical conservative attitudes toward the environment and whether global warming is a man-made phenomena.

Reverend Mitch Hescox, named one of the ten Environmental Religious Saints by Huffington Post, discusses peak oil and the future of clean energy.