Food and Faith Podcast

Derrick is joined by Rev. MaryAnn McKibben Dana to discuss cooking, gardening, and her new book "Hope: A User's Manual". 

Derrick speaks with Rabbi Yonatan Neril about the Eco-Bible, interfaith work on climate change, and connecting food to the climate crisis. 

Rabbi Yonatan Neril founded and directs The Interfaith Center for Sustainable Development. Raised in California, Yonatan completed an M.A. and B.A. from Stanford University with a focus on global environmental issues, and received rabbinical ordination in Israel.

Yonatan is coauthor of t...

Derrick speaks with Dr. Melanie Harris about ecowomanism, the food, health, and ecological wellbeing program at Wake Forest University, and the challenges for climate activists of color. 

BIO 

Dr. Melanie L. Harris is Professor of Black Feminist and Womanist Theologies jointly appointed with

African American Studies at Wake Forest University. She also serves as the Director of Food, Health and Ecologic...

Anna and Derrick speak with NIkki Cooley about reservation food and returning to native ways of eating. 

Isabel is a  National Board Certified Health Coach (NBC-HWC) specializing in adults and seniors. She initially became a health coach to better understand how lifestyle changes could impact her own set of chronic conditions. After great success, she started working with individual clients and groups, as well as partnering with a broad range of medical professionals to help clients achieve their own health goals implemen...

Isabel is a  Nationa Board Certified Health Coach (NBC-HWC) specializing in adults and seniors. She initially became a health coach to better understand how lifestyle changes could impact her own set of chronic conditions. After great success, she started working with individual clients and groups, as well as partnering with a broad range of medical professionals to help clients achieve their own health goals implement...

Derrick speaks to Talitha Amadea Aho about her book "Deep Waters: Spiritual Care for Young People in a Climate Crisis"

Author Talitha Amadea Aho is a chaplain at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland and a minister member of the Presbytery of San Francisco. Recently, she served as a pastor at Montclair Presbyterian Church, the largest Presbyterian congregation in Oakland, where she was responsible for children and youth progra...

As a part of The Just Kitchen project, Anna and Derrick speak with Kelley Nikondeha about finding peace and prayer in the kitchen and they discuss her new book The First Advent. 

Kelley Nikondeha is a liberation theologian, author, and deputy director of Communities of Hope, a community development enterprise in Burundi. Her current book, The First Advent in Palestine: Reversals, Resistance, and the Ongoing Complexity of Hope, is...

Yvette R. Blair-Lavallais is a womanist public theologian, community pastor, ethnographer, and food justice strategist.

Her work focuses on the intersection of food insecurity, famines, displacement, and gentrification of Black, Latinx, and Indigenous peoples. Her doctoral research is "Reframing the Narrative of Food Insecurity: Creating a Faith-Based Policy that Addresses Food Apartheid in the Red Bird Community of Dallas."

 She h...

Why should you preach on Isaiah 65 this Easter? We'll tell you! 

On this episode, we will be looking at the passages for Easter Sunday

My guests are Rev. Dr. Garrett Andrew, pastor of Nipomo Community Presbyterian Church in Arroyo Grande, Ca., Wilson Dickinson, author of the Green Good News and the director of continuing education at Lexington Theological Seminary,Avery Lamb, co-executive director at Creation Justice ministries, 

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Derrick is joined by

Rev. Dr. Garrett Andrew, pastor of Nipomo Community Presbyterian Church in Arroyo Grande, Ca., Wilson Dickinson, author of the Green Good News and the director of continuing education at Lexington Theological Seminary,Avery Lamb, co-executive director at Creation Justice ministries, and Rev. Dr. Leach Schade, author of  Creation-Crisis Preaching: Ecology, Theology, and the Pulpit and professor for preaching and...

A couple of years ago, we did an episode specifically for preachers and church leaders where we talked about the upcoming lectionary passages for Advent and tried to look at them through the lens of climate change and care for creation. It was a wonderful episode, but felt a little out of the realm of what we normally do at the food and faith podcast. Some of us had the idea to do a podcast that was devoted thinking about scripture...

As a part of the Just Kitchen series, Anna and Derrick speak with Rev. Dr. Chris Carter about black veganism, creating a food ethic, and his book "The Spirit of Soul Food: Race, Faith, and Food Justice". 

Rev. Dr. Christopher Carter’s teaching, research, and activist interests are in Black, Womanist, and Environmental ethics, with a particular focus on race, food, and nonhuman animals. He is the co-creator of Racial Resilience, an...