Christians Caring for Creation

Woodland Baptist Church in San Antonio, Texas was C3’s first “Church of the Year" in 2022. Mike Massar, Associate Pastor of Woodland, tells the story of how their church became the first faith community in San Antonio to receive the Silver Star for environmental sustainability. This recognition led to many young families joining their church, desiring to be in a faith community that cared abo...

This episode of the C3 podcast  features Catherine Wright, a Canadian Roman Catholic eco-theologian teaching at a small Baptist university in North Carolina.  Dr. Wright talks about Pope Francis' letter to the church, Ladauto Si, calling Christians to care for God's creation as an act of thanksgiving and praise to God.   Dr. Wright is the Executive Director for The Collaborative for the...

In this episode of Christians Caring for Creation podcasts we will hear the incredible story of a church in rural America producing enough solar energy to meet the needs of every resident in their community.  Dr. Dennis Atwood, pastor of First Baptist Church Mount Olive, NC, talks with C3 Founder, Don Gordon, about this innovative ministry which no one saw coming.  Dr. Atwood, having done theologi...

In this second episode of the C3 Podcast, Don Gordon talks with Robert Davies, climate physicist from Utah State University.  Davies, who has studied climate science for the past 15 years and has provided scientific consultation for NASA's space station, discloses the raw truth of a future seeking unrelenting economic growth.  He lays out the physics and math of our current trajectory of ener...

In this first episode of the C3 Podcast, founder and CEO, Don Gordon, talks with Norman Wirzba, award-winning author and much sought after speaker at the intersection of theology and ecology.   This episode focuses on Wirzba's recent book "Agrarian Spirit: Cultivating Faith, Community and the Land," (Notre Dame Press, 2022).  The conversation ranges from Plato in ancient Greece to s...