Moderator: Robert Creech (Truett Theological Seminary at Baylor University)
Susan Bratton (Baylor University)
Michael Northcott (University of Edinburgh)
Norman Wirzba (Duke University)
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Dr. Wirzba’s audio is not coming through on the stream as he addresses the final question. We are trying to address this issue.
We were unable to establish the cause of the audio dropping on Dr. Wirzba’s final comment. If we can recover the audio on the native video capture (as oppoosed to the streamed video/audio) we will restore that content on this post.
We were unfortunately unable to recover the audio from Dr. Wirzba’s response to the final question of this session. However, he was gracious enough to reconstruct his response so that we could include it in the comments section of the session. So, with thanks to Dr. Wirzba, here is a summation of his response to the final question: “In that period I spoke of working with faith communities because they themselves operate on multiple scales, the personal, social, and global. I also mentioned that faith communities own a tremendous amount of land all across the world. They need to model in their management of it what healing of the land and community can look like, because they have all the theological reasons necessary to do so. The scale of care is also important. People need to invest in local economies so they can see how giving their love to a place effects healing and beauty. If they remain in a spectator/consumer modality, they don’t feel themselves to be contributing to good work, and that is important because the doing of good work helps address the despair and paralysis that people might ordinarily feel.”