Earthkeepers: A Circlewood Podcast on Creation Care and Spirituality

This episode features a Celtic Advent reflection, exploring how Celtic Christianity views creation as sacred and interconnected with God, through excerpts from Christine Sign's book narrated by John Ahern.

Matt and Mary Ann Ryan describe how Evanston Vineyard and Evanston Froze turned church land north of Chicago into Vineyard Farm, a project tied to food insecurity and community education.

The host shares personal experiences from moving to a log cabin on Kameno Island, discusses the impact of severe storms, and expresses gratitude while introducing new developments for Earth Keepers and Circlewood as the podcast enters its seventh year.

Ruth Valerio says earth care is part of faith practice, not a separate concern, and she grounds that claim in Colossians 1:19-20, Isaiah 58, and the phrase "all things." She traces her own path from childhood nature walks in a village near London to a "second conversion" sparked by a university book called "Who's Earth," then says she had to live the theology or be "a hypocrite." The conversation also moves from an empty road at sunset during lockdown to Iraq, where Ruth says villages are running out of water and the country is the "fifth most climate-vulnerable country in the world." She closes with a practical message: choose "one thing," let it become natural, and remember that government and business carry much of the responsibility.

Forrest Inslee opens Earthkeepers with Randy Woodley about a new Substack series, "Make Democracy Great Again," and connects it to a No Kings rally, his daughter Kyra, and worries about democracy and earth care.

Earthkeepers: A Circlewood Podcast on Creation Care and Spirituality, Episode 135, centers on Ron Cole-Turner’s book Psychedelics and Christian Faith and the claim that psychedelics can raise questions about God, church, and creation care.

Brennan Ziegler, a mid-twenties employee at Dr.

Earth Keepers sits down with David Swanson to talk about *Plundered* and the shared roots of racial and environmental injustice.

The episode returns to an archive conversation from Season 4 while the production team takes a break and recenters the DeYoung family's place-based ecological advocacy.

Rachel McKelvey says Rainier Avenue Church in Seattle ran a 12-week Creation Care Learning Group built around Earth Keepers episodes, scripture, and oral Bible storytelling.

Forrest Inslee speaks with Lenore Three Stars, a Circlewood board member and Oglala Lakota woman, in an archive episode that revisits the early shape of Earthkeepers.

Earthkeepers: A Circlewood Podcast on Creation Care and Spirituality pairs Forrest Inslee with John Paul Vickery, who lives in Kirkland, Washington and works as marketing director at UW Bothell.

Forrest Inslee and Lenore Three Stars host Dr.

Mark, a retired U.S.

Randy Woodley says Earth Keepers has spent 21 years carrying a vision that moved from Nevada to Kentucky to Oregon, including a farm, a school, and the Aloha Indigenous Center for Earth Justice.

Earthkeepers spends time with Stephanie and Wes Vanderluck of Kinship Plots, looking at how community becomes part of creation care.

Jennifer Godfrey, a Seattle Symphony musician, explains how she filed the Orca Appeal after finding that the One Seattle Plan’s environmental impact statement did not mention orcas, despite Puget Sound being home to the world’s only endangered orca population.

James Amidon introduces Forrest Inslee as a guest on Victoria Lohrs’ The Holy Wild, and the conversation centers on Forrest’s move from human-centered ministry to a broader theology of creation care.

In this interview, Victoria Loorz discusses edge walking as a practice of prophetic critique and renewal within the church, exploring wild spirituality as a way to restore sacred relationships with nature and address ecological crises.

Forrest Inslee continues his conversation with Victoria Lewis, co-founder of the Wild Church Movement, exploring practical ways to integrate ecological practices into spiritual life.

Forrest gathers James Amidon from Circlewood and Ben Lowe of Arusha USA for a conversation about earth care in difficult times.

Earthkeepers sits down with Paul Detman of Cassinia, an Australian organization.

Mark Warren speaks about learning the outdoors by entering it with humility as a visitor.

Forrest Inslee turns the episode into a self-check on how earth-care language lands with people outside the usual circles.

Jessica Schroeder joins Forrest Inslee and Joe Swinney to talk about food as earthcare.

Forrest Inslee opens the conversation with creation-centered attention to place.

Forrest Inslee sits down with Leah Rampey and Beth Norcross to talk about their book, Discovering the Spiritual Wisdom of Trees.

The host welcomes Victoria back as a frequent guest and turns to her new Field Guide to Church of the Wild.

Forrest Inslee speaks with Ruth Padilla de Borst about Casa Adobe, an intentional community in Costa Rica.

Brendan McClenahan says TEND is a free discipleship curriculum from Plant With Purpose for faith leaders and small groups, built around scripture, prayer, meals, hospitality, and simple earth-care actions.