Biologist Dave Koetje returns to reflect with host Debra Rienstra on major themes from Season 2. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/refugia/message

Refugia

#22 Living Together in a World of Wounds: Dave Koetje and Summing Up Season 2

Writer Fred Bahnson explores the distinction between arks and refugia. He describes his visit to the church forests of Ethiopia and his involvement in the community garden movement, and he ponders the role of metanoia and mystical connection in a refugia faith.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/refugia/message

#21 Infrastructures of Holiness: Fred Bahnson on Arks, Intercessory Forests, and Gregarious Hermits

Kathryn Mae Post describes her own process of reckoning with a faith crisis, engaging in anti-racism work, and starting out in religion journalism at a time of major cultural and religious transition. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/refugia/message

#20: Imaginative and Messy: Kathryn Mae Post on Religion Journalism and Reconstructing Faith

Wildlife biologist Tim Van Deelen reflects on the spiritual challenges of wildlife conservation and considers the call to value the commons and engage in strategic activism.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/refugia/message

#19 Love Thy Downstream Neighbor: Tim Van Deelen on Sorrow, Anger, and Conservation Biology.

Katerina Parsons reflects on refugia in international development settings, on engaging in advocacy and activism as a young adult, and on feeling restless and place-starved at once. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/refugia/message

#18 Where Beauty is Happening: Katerina Parsons on International Development, Ripple Effects, and Hunger for Deep Roots

Randy Woodley brings Christian and indigenous worldviews into instructive conversation, describing his quest to establish Eloheh Farm, a place where people can reconnect with land and recover indigenous farming practices. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/refugia/message

#17 Dreaming of Eloheh: Randy Woodley on Following the Harmony Way

Ruth Harvey describes how times of crisis spur people toward new ways of imagining and organizing community. She reflects on how the Iona Community models refugia as places we move in and out of, located and dispersed. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/refugia/message

#16 Kites and Kingfishers: Ruth Harvey on Iona Community and Emerging Patterns

Bill McKibben reviews some recent good news in the climate fight and reflects on an ethic of human solidarity, the demands of activism, and holding on to Christian faith. Also: the book of Job, refugia, and the delights of vernal pools. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/refugia/message

#15 Momentum into the Next Thing: Bill McKibben on Fighting Overwhelming Odds and Praying Through Mental Static

Biologist Dave Koetje talks with host Debra Rienstra about how the COVID-19 pandemic has altered his ideas about refugia. Also: Zoom worship, garden pests, and stepping-stone refugia. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/refugia/message

#14 Sacramental Cats and Hungry Deer: Dave Koetje on Refugia Amid COVID

Biologist Dave Koetje returns to reflect with host Debra Rienstra on everything we’ve learned over the course of the last twelve episodes.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/refugia/message

#13 Important Dying: Dave Koetje and Summing Up the Refugia Series

Hillary Scholten, an attorney who worked for the DOJ under President Obama and then provided legal representation for migrant workers in Michigan, considers how government policy, people of faith, and the larger community can intersect to create healing refugia spaces. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/refugia/message

#12 Baselines and Soul Work: Hillary Scholten on Immigration Reform and the Urgency of Creating Good Policy

In this episode, we travel out to the shore of Lake Michigan and back in time. Jazz musician David Jellema recounts the history of the "artist intelligentsia retreat" founded by his father and uncle. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/refugia/message

#11 Jazz on the Dunes: David Jellema and the Colony at Lost Valley

A pastor and education team leader at the Christian Reformed Church’s Office of Social Justice, Kate Kooyman sorts out some confusing matters of immigration policy and explores how people of faith help immigrants and refugees go beyond refuge to community integration. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/refugia/message

#10 Do the Next Right Thing: Kate Kooyman on Refuge, Refugees, and Stewarding Citizenship

Tim Van Deelen, professor of wildlife ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, explains how the term refugia is used in the context of wildlife conservation, along the way telling stories about grizzlies, black-footed ferrets, wolves, and Aldo Leopold. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/refugia/message

#9 Keep All the Pieces: Tim Van Deelen on Wildlife Conservation and the Ghost of Aldo Leopold

Journalist and recent seminary graduate Jeff Chu ponders the intersection of theology and farming. He also describes the Evolving Faith Conference and other places of healing and fresh imagination for people who are, for whatever reason, feeling on the margins of the church. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/refugia/message

#8 Dying and Rising: Jeff Chu on Composting, Evolving Faith, and Pop-Up Refugia

Host Debra Rienstra interviews a different guest each week, exploring the idea of refugia from a variety of perspectives, from biology to worship to politics. Refugia are places of shelter where life endures in times of crisis. We’re exploring what it means for people of faith to be people of refugia.

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