Good Faith Debates #8: How Should Christians Care About the Environment?

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🗓️ 5 April 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Brian Mattson and Jake Meador discuss creation care—is it something Christians should only practice privately, or is it an issue requiring political action?

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0:34.8	goodbook.com slash post podcast. Welcome to the gospel coalition podcast. In spring 2023,
0:44.1	TGC released five new debates as part of the Good Faith Debates video series featuring prominent
0:49.4	Christian thinkers discussing some of the most divisive issues facing the church today.
0:54.4	On today's episode, we're featuring a debate between Brian Matzen and Jake Meter on the topic of
0:59.5	climate change. Pastor Jim Davis from Orlando Grace Church moderates this debate. Let's listen in.
1:05.4	Welcome to TGC's Good Faith Debates. These are conversations designed to help you learn how to
1:11.8	navigate difficult, emotional, maybe even polarizing issues in our current life and culture.
1:19.0	My name is Jim Davis, a pastor Orlando Grace Church and it is my privilege to be able to be the
1:23.6	moderator for these debates. The topic for today is climate change and environmental protection.
1:31.6	This is, of course, something most Christians would agree on that we have the mandate to
1:37.0	steward this earth, but what does that look like? Now that we have 8 billion people living here,
1:43.4	technologies that we have not had before. So this is a question that Christians really need to
1:48.5	wade through and of course what role does the government have in that. I'm thankful to be joined
1:53.2	by two people who have thought through this and are willing to debate here today. We have Jake
1:59.2	Meter here, Brian Matzen here. Jake is a writer speaker and your editor-in-chief for Mirror
2:06.5	Orthodoxy. Brian, you're a theologian, a writer, a musician, and the senior scholar of public
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