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Simpler OneEarth Living Podcast
A co-production of Simple Living Works! and The Common Good Podcast (Jubilee OneEarth Economics)

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In this episode Jerry interviews Lee about his new, 130+ pages book on how the perils of our planet can be reversed by the story of the birth of Jesus as told in the Gospels. The Gospels give us a story of new creation. Matthew and Luke give us riffs on Genesis, a collection written to protest the Babylonian Empire. Genesis and the Gospels give us stories that radically counter the stories of superpowers. Their stories are about creation of the Earth and new life, and they do so in defiance of the superpower domination and death they were experiencing from Babylon and Rome respectively. Those stories give us what we need in 2020 to live by a different story from the superpowers of today’s world that are destroying life for so much of our planet.

The interview flows through a series of topics:
why Lee wrote the book
how the birth story in the Gospels and the Christmas story exist in two different paradigms
the significance of the selective, mixed-gender genealogy Matthew gives us at the start of his gospel
the significance of dreams in the birth story and in our new creation story today
why cosmology keeps the creation story much larger than historical versions do
actions we can take to live in the new creation

The new book is The Liberating Birth of Jesus: A Birth Story Able to Reverse Our Planet’s Perils. It’s available both on Amazon and Powell’s Books. It grows out of blogs Lee wrote in Christmas seasons during past years. This is Lee’s fourth book. See http://theoneearthproject.com/books/ for descriptions of his earlier books.

Earlier Episodes

In Episode 1019 Margaret Bullitt-Jonas explains why Creation Care is a deeply spiritual matter and cannot be reduced to simply an environmental issue. She is an itinerant missioner to congregations on Creation Care, traveling to Episcopal and United Church of Christ congregations and other groups as well. Her book is Rooted and Rising: Voices of Courage in a Time of Ecological Crisis. Her website is RevivingCreation.org.

Ep. 09/19–Having served on his school board and city council, George Gastil urges us to make an impact for good through our local governments.

Ep. 08/19–Lori Payer, leader of Strong Women of the Four Directions

This native woman living in the Siouxland region of the U.S. where three states connect—Iowa, South Dakota and Nebraska–exemplifies the willingness of indigenous peoples to collaborate on the way forward. 

The traditional ways of Indigenous, low-technology worldviews continue to reveal wisdom for living today that is grounded in Earth’s knowledge on how to generate life. Worldviews dependent on technology are experience the darkside of technologies which repeatedly overwhelm the good it does and generate extinction of life. 

Do listen to Lori Payer’s soft-spoken wisdom in this interview. And if you are part of a congregation, campus, nonprofit, or business, do all you can be in a respectful alliance with the First Peoples who lived here first and continue to resist Western Civilization with their Earth-based ways.

Ep. 07/19–Michael Patrick “White Eagle” O’Connor, native American artist and Earth activist

We are in the 7th Generation, according to a prophecy of Black Elk and other Native Americans, the time of healing. It’s a time when genuine partnerships develop among non-Indigenous and Indigenous peoples. These two interviews push aside any residual thoughts in our minds that Indigenous peoples are peoples of the past or are fading into the past. No! The spiritual activism and perspectives of traditional Indigenous peoples lead the way for the OneEarth living we espouse on our podcast. Hear a 48 year old social worker and Native American in Sioux City, Iowa, speak to how he follows his spiritual path in addressing the issues of today.

He speaks so transparently about himself, his struggle to be on his spiritual path, his deep relationship with the energy of Earth, his work with Native American youth, and his readiness for partnership with non-Indigenous people who seek it authentically.

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Reference: TCGP Ep. 77: Lee’s book From Egos to Eden

Ep.05/19: Steven Cornett–Partnering with Nature for Healthy Food and Soil through Regenerative Farming

By 2030, it’s essential that we change the way food is grown if we are to keep the planet livable. In his early 30s, Steven Cornett understands the urgency and the daunting scale of such change. Helping to change our current large scale degenerative food system to a small scale regenerative agriculture system will have a major influence over the future of our world and society.

Ep. 03/19–Inequality Hurts Everybody!–Talking to Chuck Collins of Inequality.org

Over the last few decades 15% of U.S. wealth has been transferred from 99% of the populace to 1%. The 2018 tax revisions continue the trend—something many of us noticed as we filed 2018 tax returns. As Program Director of InEquality and the Common Good, a part of the Institute for Policy Studies, Chuck edits the “Inequality This Week” eNewsletter and has authored many books including the popular book, Born on Third Base: A One Percenter Makes the Case for Tackling Inequality, Bringing Wealth Home, and Committing to the Common Good (Chelsea Green) and his new book: Is Inequality in America Irreversible? (Oxford, UK-based Polity Press).

BONUS Podcast! Alternative Radio: Economic InEquality Kills–Stephen Bezruchka

OneEarth Jubilee can now help you offset the carbon you put into the atmosphere. Here’s how. First, we calculate our carbon with the calculator online at www.carbonify.com. Then we donate the amount the calculator totals for us. We can donate it to Jubilee Economics Tree Fund because the two Jubilee Circles in Mexico and the one in San Diego all work with trusted groups that plant trees. Not that this is a perfect solution to putting CO2 into the air. Not by any means. When trees die, they, too, put CO2 into the air. But trees live a long time. And every day they live, they sequester carbon from the atmosphere and enrich the soil while putting out oxygen. The April newsletter, Jubileo, is an Earth Day edition and tells you more. Click BLOG in the menu at the top of the page at Jubilee-Economics.org.

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