4. In Conversation with Cherice Bock, Creation Justice Advocate

On this episode of the Western Friend Podcast we are joined by Cherice Bock. Cherice works as a Creation Justice Advocate with Oregon Interfaith Power & Light and Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon, and you can find more about her amazing work HERE. 

A few themes from  this episode are: 

• our interconnectedness 
• the importance of listening to how other species and parts of creation speak up to us
• the notion of watershed discipleship
• traditional ecological knowledge and
• hope as an action

Also, don't forget to USE THIS LINK to join the Western Friend Podcast team on Tuesday, November 16th at 7PM PST for an open community conversation about this episode! Totally free and open to the public. We would love to see you there!

Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction
• 1:15 On being a Creation Justice Advocate
• 4:49 Environmental Justice and Racial Justice
• 6:47 Creation Justice and our interconnectedness
• 9:11 On shifting our relationship to creation
• 13:15 Untangling white supremacy and American exceptionalism
• 16:22 Surviving and thriving together
• 21:02 On watershed discipleship
• 23:32 On traditional ecological knowledge
• 36:08 Now what? What work lies ahead?
• 41:17 On her personal practice
• 47:28 Environmental Justice and Racial Justice continued
• 51:18 The Remix with Jon and colin