The Good Dirt with Byron Smith
News:Politics
In our third episode, Lisa Sharon Harper - US author, activist, faith leader - talks with Byron Smith about her work helping people from many backgrounds journey towards justice and wholeness. Amongst numerous other initiatives, recently Lisa has been particularly involved with Freedom Road, whose tagline is "We consult, coach, train and design experiences that help groups in multiple sectors do justice in just ways." Freedom Road Podcast with Lisa.
Episode Outline
I. What's the big idea?
Core Spiritual Lies are false ways we have learned to see ourselves with respect to God, others and the land. If we can unearth and articulate such false beliefs, noting the ways that they are expressed in our culture and power structures, then we may be able to respond with spiritual truths that can liberate and heal.
• Uluru Statement from the Heart
• Tony Abbott: 'Nothing but bush'
II. What's going on?
Story #1: Australia's authority in the Pacific 'being eroded by refusal to address climate change'
Story #2: An example of nonviolent direct action against a coal train in NSW. Livestream video of that action.
III. What do we do?
Lisa Sharon Harper, The Very Good Gospel: How everything wrong can be made right (book)
Frontline Action on Coal (Facebook)
The Good Dirt (Facebook)
Credits
PS As with episode two, this conversation was recorded a few months ago, so a couple of the references may be somewhat dated, though the issues discussed are still very much live. While the Pacific Forum may have wrapped up a while back, the Australian government largely reprised a similar spoiler role at the recent UN climate negotiations in Poland.
PPS Since this was one of our first recordings, the sound quality is somewhat lower than I'd hoped. In particular Lisa is louder than Byron. Apologies.
11. Brooke Prentis: political vs partisan, bushfire smoke, burning rainforests, humpback recovery, cashless welfare cards, civil liberties narrowing, persecution of Uyghurs
10. Adam Wood: intergenerational injustice, bushfires and coal in NSW, electric vehicles in Australia, climate strike
9. Mick Pope: Anthropocene, 11,000 scientists, bad climate ancestors, profiting from destruction, and secondary boycotts
8. David Clough: humans and other animals, live export, Australia's extinction crisis, climate emergency, role of faith communities
7. Jason John: identity protective cognition, existential risks, election analysis, Adani update, islander rights
6. Ben Thurley: the Overton window, Coalition budget priorities, climate policies compared, how change happens
5. Miriam Pepper: the Murray-Darling river basin - a case study in ecology, history and politics
4. Josh Dowton: epistemic priority on the oppressed, 26th January, developments in the coal industry, school strike for climate, insect decline
2. Brooke Prentis: just world belief, Aboriginal deaths in custody, climate neighbourliness, carbon and nutrition, adulterated honey
1. Scott Sanders: common grace, air pollution, biodiversity loss and loneliness
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