The Climate Anticipation Podcast with Rev. abby mohaupt

The Climate Anticipation Podcast (audio and video) engages anticipators in intimate conversations concerning the practice of anticipation. The Podcast draws upon the wisdom of anticipators from the directions of religion and ecology, decolonization, ecological justice, futurist studies, cosmology and cosmovisions, and regenerative ecological sciences. Check out our webpage for more on our networks of anticipation https://theclimateanticipationproject... We are blessed today to be in conversation with Rev. abby mohaupt. Rev. abby mohaupt is a Presbyterian minister and a PhD student at Drew University in climate change and ecofeminist theology. She splits her time between California and New Jersey. She regularly blogs at www.featheology.org, and her writing on earth care has appeared in Sojourners, the Presbyterian Church USA’s Unbound, and Ecclesio. She continues to serve the church on the board of the Presbyterian Hunger Program and Fossil Free PCUSA. abby is the Director of Education and Training for GreenFaith. In our conversation abby shares her journey as a minister and ecotheologian into the uncertain terrains ahead of us. We discuss the hopelessness of hoping in the face of our climate emergency and what might be better emotional and spiritual pathways to guide our work. abby also shares some wonderful ecotheological realizations from her relationships with the chickens on the farm project she serves in Texas. Your host: Christopher Fici, PhD is a scholar of theology/religion currently based in New York City Christopher recently completed his Ph.D with a focus on Eco-Theology and Comparative Theology at Union Theological Seminary in the city of New York. He currently teaches courses on Religion and the Natural World and The Story of the Universe at Iona College in New Rochelle, NY. Christopher spent five years studying and living as a monk in Gaudiya Vaishnava communities in West Virginia and in New York City, where remains associated as a Vaishnava scholar-practitioner with The Bhakti Center. At the Bhakti Center he helps to facilitate the Sacred Ecology Forum. He is a former president of the Mid-Atlantic region of the American Academy of Religion (MAR-AAR), of which he is still actively involved as the co-chair of the Comparative Religion and Ecology section. With his MAR-AAR colleagues he recently published his first edited volume Religious Studies Scholars as Public Intellectuals, published with Routledge. An avowed follower of Thomas Merton, he also helps to run the NYC Corpus Christi chapter of The International Thomas Merton Society at Corpus Christi Church in Manhattan, where Merton was baptized into the Catholic tradition.