Christians Caring for Creation
The C3 Podcast addresses key issues related to ecology and theology.
Episodes
59 episodes
Constructing Gardens, Cultivating Community - Amanda Vincent
What can gardens teach us about caring for our communities and creation? Dr. Amanda Vincent, Associate Professor of French Studies at Wake Forest University and author of the award-winning Constructing Gardens, Cultivating the City, joins Don t...
The Summer the World Got Hotter - Don Gordon
In this episode, Don Gordon examines the extraordinary heat of summer 2026 and what it reveals about a warming planet. From record temperatures and deadly heat waves to wildfires, water shortages, energy demands, and agricultural im...
More Than a Meal: Ending Hunger with Hope - Eric Aft
Food insecurity affects millions of Americans, yet hunger is about much more than empty stomachs. In this episode, Don Gordon talks with Eric Aft, CEO of Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest North Carolina, about addressing the roo...
Loving Our Neighbor Through Environmental Justice - Will Hendrick
Why do some communities carry a heavier burden of pollution and environmental health risks than others? In this episode, Don Gordon welcomes Will Hendrick, Environmental Justice Director for the North Carolina Conservation Network, ...
America's Water Reckoning - Don Gordon
In this C3 Podcast, Don Gordon, the founder of C3, addresses the question: will water become the defining environmental and economic challenge of the 21st century in America? Dr. Gordon explores how climate change, population ...
Taigu Ryokan: The Great Fool of Japan - with Clifford Cain
What can an 18th-century Japanese Zen monk teach us about climate anxiety, consumerism, and spiritual peace? In this episode, Don Gordon and Dr. Clifford Cain discuss Taigu Ryokan’s life of simplicity, poetry, joy, and attunement to...
Resilience in an Age of Extreme Weather - Ben Duncan
What happens when faith, public service, and climate resilience come together? Ben Duncan, Chief Resilience Officer for South Carolina’s groundbreaking Office of Resilience—the first statewide office of its kind in America—joins Don...
My Cousin the Saint - Justin Catanoso
Pulitzer Prize nominee, Justin Catanoso, joins us to discuss his memoir, My Cousin the Saint. What begins as a journalistic quest to understand his Italian cousin’s canonization by the Catholic Church becomes a deeply perso...
David vs. Goliath: The Money Behind Environmental Policy - Bill Holman
What really shapes environmental policy—science, public will, or money and power? In this episode, Bill Holman, longtime North Carolina environmental advocate and lobbyist, shares decades of experience as often the lone environmenta...
Feeding the Hands that Feed Us - Rick Burnett
Immokalee is a town in southwest Florida that feeds much of America during the winter. The population is heavily populated by immigrant labor from Central America and Haiti. These are the people that harvest our food, yet they lack ...
Clean Energy Meets Affordable Housing - Rebekah Whilden
What do clean energy and affordable housing have to do with each other?More than many people realize.In this episode of the C3 – Christians Caring for Creation podcast, Don Gordon talks with Rebekah Whilden, Executiv...
What Kenya Is Teaching the Western Church - Sam Harrell
Don Gordon welcomes Sam Harrell of Africa Exchange for a compelling conversation on faith, climate justice, and the call to care for all creation. With insights shaped by Sam’s life and work in Kenya, this episode challenges Western...
The Stories We’re Not Supposed to Hear - Justin Catanoso
Justin Catanoso, Pulitzer Prize nominee and professor of journalism at Wake Forest University, tells stories most of us don’t know that we need to know. In this podcast he talks about the miracle of the Yurok tribe in northern California reclai...
The Universal Human Right of a Clean Environment - John Knox
On July 28, 2022, the United Nations adopted a resolution that a "clean, healthy and sustainable environment is a universal human right." John Knox, Professor of International Law at Wake Forest University, served as the special legal adv...
From Farm to Landfill: A Moral Crisis - Pelin Pekgün
Nearly 40% of the food produced in the United States is never eaten. For Christians called to feed the hungry and care for God’s creation, this is a sobering reality. In this episode, Dr. Pelin Pekgün — global leader and Chair of th...
Amy Rosenthal - AI Powered Earth Intelligence
What if you could track where rain forests are being cut down or plastic is being thrown into the ocean or the migration patterns of endangered species? Amy Rosenthal and her team at Planet are doing just that, using 100s of drone-like sa...
Harvard Scholar Writes A Children’s Book – Sandra Richter
Award-winning Harvard scholar, Sandra Richter, has combined her love for the Hebrew Bible and the earth in a just published children’s book. In this podcast Richter tells how she came to write Abigail and the Waterfall,
God Can’t - Thomas Oord
Is there anything God can’t do? Can God lie? Can God act against God’s own nature? Best-selling author Thomas Oord answers these questions in this provocative podcast, offering a new way to think and talk about Go...
David Wheeler - Global Theologian Addresses World's Most Pressing Problems
David Wheeler, a global theologian who has taught in North and South America as well as in Russia, offers his perspective on the world‘s most pressing problems. From the patterns of human migration to the extinction of insects, Wheeler offers a...
The Essential Nature of Earthkeeping for the Christian Faith - Steven Bouma-Prediger
While many Christians consider taking care of the earth as optional for Christian living, Steven Bouma-Prediger does not. In his book Creation Care Discipleship: Why Earthkeeping is an Essential Christian Practice, he makes a the...
A Southern European in the Southern United States - Alex Smith
Alex Smith spent his formative years as a missionary kid in Southern Europe, a place torn by war and violence. Today he is a minister, science teacher and award-winning videographer sharing his love for God, neighbor and creation in Atlan...
The Strange Alliance Between Atheists and Fundamentalists - Don Gordon
When it comes to reading the Bible, you might think atheists and Christian fundamentalists are worlds apart. But surprisingly, they often share the same approach: both insist Leviticus must be read in a flat, literal way. For atheists, that pro...
God, Pandemics and the Holocaust - Clifford Cain
How can a God who is all-knowing and all-powerful allow such horrors as the Holocaust or COVID-19, tragedies that claimed millions of lives, including those of children? Did they deserve it? Is it simply the cost of human freedom? Or must we ac...
Urban Church Goes Green - Rev. Emily Hull McGee
In this podcast, Emily Hull McGee, Senior Pastor at First Baptist on Fifth in downtown Winston-Salem, NC talks about her congregation’s focus on creation care in the summer of 2024. Revealing theological foundations and practical applica...
An Agrarian Reading of the Bible - Ellen Davis, Duke Theologian
Ellen Davis, makes the compelling argument that if you want to understand the Bible you must read it as an agrarian. The Bible is about land and food, more than it is about a ticket in heaven. In this podcast, Davis discusses with C...