Let’s Talk! EcoActivist conversations with Paul Santmire.

Let’s Talk! with Lisa Dahill

Paul talks with Lisa E. Dahill, the Miriam Therese Winter Chair for Transformative Leadership and Spirituality, Director of the Center for Transformative Spirituality at Hartford International University for Religion and Peace. They discuss the vulnerability of getting barefoot in the Eucharist, poetic gifts in the paw prints of bears, and viewing Bonhoeffer through an ecological lens.

Let’s Talk! with Panu Pihkala

In this episode, Paul talks with Pastor Panu Pihkala [http://ecoanxietyandhope.blogspot.com/]. Panu shares a grounded and centered theology of hope through meaning, and when prompted offers advice to Pastors and parents about how to help parishioners and children alike deal with eco-anxiety, or "climate anxiety."

Let’s Talk! with Kiara Jorgenson

Kiara Jorgenson, Assistant Professor of Religion and Environmental Studies; Director of Environmental Conversation at St. Olaf College joins Paul in the latest “Let’s Talk!” conversation. They discuss the importance of place-based vocations, the essential value of relationships, expanding intersectional backgrounds of students, Christian mystics, attention, joy, climate anxiety, deconstructing evangelical Christianity, Jürgen Moltmann, Joanna Macy’s The Work that Reconnects Us, Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights, H. Richard Niebuhr’s Responsibility Ethic, Erik Erikson, Wesley Wildman, panentheism, and paradox.

Let’s Talk! with Bill McKibben

In this Let's Talk (the youtube series [https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL50LCYFAk-5EJDRgTcZXBRtN105tykGcZ]), Paul talks with author, educator, and environmentalist Bill McKibben. Referencing McKibben's latest book, "The Flag, The Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at his Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened", they discuss McKibben's personal roots and his entry into the world of activism, concluding with solid, even inspired, advice for mainline Protestant churches.

Let’s Talk! with theologian and historian, Simon Halkano

Simon Halkano, a graduate of the Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary's Certificate in Climate Justice and Faith program, shares with Paul about his work with youth in his church, the tree planting initiative he leads, as well as the concept of ubuntu and its role in bringing ecotheology to his community.