{"id":38866,"date":"2018-07-06T10:46:14","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T14:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=38866"},"modified":"2019-01-04T15:06:04","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T20:06:04","slug":"shifting-climates-podcast-to-rehumanize-conversation-about-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2018\/shifting-climates-podcast-to-rehumanize-conversation-about-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Shifting Climates\u2019 podcast, website to &#8216;rehumanize&#8217; conversation about climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Two upcoming seasons of a new podcast and an accompanying website will \u201crehumanize\u201d the conversation about climate change in churches and beyond.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shifting Climates <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shiftingclimates.com\/season-one\/\">podcast<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/shiftingclimates.com\/\">website<\/a> will be produced by the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sustainableclimatesolutions.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Center for Sustainable Climate Solutions<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (CSCS), a partnership between Eastern Mennonite University, Goshen College and Mennonite Central Committee to advance \u201cthinking and action in Anabaptist and other faith communities to mitigate climate change.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The podcast and website will be the work of the first CSCS Climate Futures Fellows, all 2018 EMU graduates. Harrison Horst and Michaela Mast will be full-time podcast hosts and Sarah Longenecker will create an interactive website of podcast materials that includes her photography. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Their year-long fellowships will culminate in a presentation at the Mennonite Church USA Convention in Kansas City next July.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">They hope their work will \u201cshift the needle\u201d on church conversations about climate change \u201cfrom somewhere in the middle to more, \u2018We need to care about this,\u2019\u201d Horst said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Each 10-episode season \u2013 and each episode \u2013 of the podcast will follow a framework based on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/TbtVXWNrN9o\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Climate Change in 10 Words by Tony Leiserowitz<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: \u201cIt\u2019s real. It\u2019s us. It\u2019s bad. Experts agree. There\u2019s hope.\u201d Topics range from Mennonite rituals to the Doctrine of Discovery, and focus on geographic regions such as the Midwest, Appalachia, Southwest, Washington D.C., Harrisonburg and Goshen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While climate change\u2019s impacts are global, \u201cthere are people who are being affected in our country,\u201d Horst said. \u201cThose stories are real, and they\u2019re a little closer to home.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Climate change, Mast said, is an issue that \u201cconnects every single person around this globe in a way that very little else does.\u201d And, Horst said, it can be \u201ca point of revival in terms of restoring our radical Anabaptist legacy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_38867\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38867\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-38867 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/is\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2018\/07\/CSCS-1000px-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2018\/07\/CSCS-1000px-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2018\/07\/CSCS-1000px-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2018\/07\/CSCS-1000px.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-38867\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Center for Sustainable Climate Solutions is a partnership between Eastern Mennonite University, Goshen College and Mennonite Central Committee to advance \u201cthinking and action in Anabaptist and other faith communities to mitigate climate change.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe can\u2019t talk about climate change without talking about our faith, and we can\u2019t talk about our faith without talking about climate change,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The duo created their <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sustainableclimatesolutions.org\/2017\/12\/20\/emu-students-create-faith-based-climate-podcast\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">first episode last fall<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for a senior capstone project with the hope of \u201cpersistently having good conversations about faith, hope and climate change,\u201d they said. Their interviews with people from different generations and occupations explored climate change\u2019s impacts on people and the relationship between faith and climate change.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In one moment of that episode, podcast guest Malinda Berry, assistant professor of theology and ethics at Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary, recalled seeing a GreenPeace sticker that said \u201cSave the Whales\u201d \u2013 but its owner had \u201cconspicuously crossed out \u2018whales\u2019 and changed it to \u2018homeless children.\u2019\u201d It was, she observed, evidence of the \u201ckind of either\/or\u201d that arises in discussions about the environment, \u201clike people first or everything else in the environment?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But climate change is not only an \u201cenvironmental\u201d discussion, Horst said: It\u2019s a human species survival discussion that \u201cshould be pushed forward by everyone who cares about the wellbeing of humans on the planet.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Climate change discussion, Mast followed, is actually about the wholeness of relationships: with God, neighbors, the community, the land and the planet. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThey\u2019re all tied up in one another,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two upcoming seasons of a new podcast and an accompanying website will \u201crehumanize\u201d the conversation about climate change in churches and beyond. 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