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Episode 28 - All About Rogation with Joe Rose and Vera Racine from St James’s Church in Hartford, CT

The Season and Celebration of Rogation traditionally happens on the 3 days before Ascension Day and has been around since the 5th Century. Check out https://www.episcopalchurch.org/glossary/rogation-days/ 

A growing number of churches will celebrate Rogation Sunday on May 14th this year. It also is Morher’s Day (there is a sermon there). 

Join co-hosts Derrick Weston and Brian Sellers-Petersen for a lively conversation with Vera Racine and Joe Rose for a lively conversation about all the agrarian ministry going on at St James’s in West Hartford, CT and hear about the their Rogation plans. 

Episode 27 - Jerusalem Greer and Brian Sellers-Petersen. All about Good News Gardens.

Conversation between Triple S co-hosts Jerusalem Greer and Brian Sellers-Petersen about Good News Gardens. Good News Gardens or GNG is a joint program of the departments of Creation Care and Evangelism in the Office of the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church. Besides Triple S Jerusalem is a farmer in Northern New Jersey and Manager of Evangelism and Discipleship in the Office of the Presiding Bishop. Brian is a coach, consultant and proprietor of Faithful Agrarian. 
https://www.episcopalchurch.org/good-news-gardens/
https://faithfulagrarian.com/ 

Episode 26 - Jack Talmadge & Maggie Whitt, Episcopal School of Knoxville

Co-hosts Brian Sellers-Petersen and Bishop Jennifer Baskerville-Burrows have a conversation with Episcopal School of Knoxville headmaster, Dr. Jack Talmadge, and Acorns to Oaks instructor, Maggie Whitt. Discussion revolves around the many ways the students at ESK learn from God’s creation through gardening, beekeeping, creation care through their robust outdoor education focus. 

Episode 25 - Bishop Brian Cole and Dr Mallory McDuff on green burial aka natural burial or conservation burial

Co-hosts Brian Sellers-Petersen and Bishop Jennifer Baskerville-Burrows have a conversation with Bishop Brian Cole, V Episcopal Bishop of East Tennessee and Dr. Mallory McDuff, Professor of Outdoor Leadership & Director of Environmental Education at Warren Wilson College. Our conversation is framed by Mallory’s book, Our Last Best Act: Planning for the End of our Lives to Protect the People and Places We Love. 

“All justice work is connected. If it is not healing to our bodies, it is not healing to our spirits. If it is not healing to the earth, it is not good for us. This is true in our lives as well as our deaths and reflects the central themes of Our Last Best Act.”
— Rev. Becca Stevens from the forward

Episode 24 - Catherine and Shawn Duffy from The Garden for All in New Albany, Ohio.

Episode 24 welcomes 2023. Joining us are Catherine and Shawn Duffy from The Garden for All in New Albany, Ohio. It is a ministry of the All Saints Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Southern Ohio. Check out their website, Facebook, and Instagram. TGFA is an inspiration and ideas galore for religious congregations. It is a gold standard of church gardens. 

Episode 23 - Churchland Stewardship - Bishop Jennifer Baskerville-Burrows & Brian Sellers-Petersen

Co-hosts, Brian & Jennifer, recap our fall series on Churchland stewardship, episodes 20-21 with Norman Wirzba, Ian McSweeney, Canon Abbott Bailey, and Bishop Megan Traquair. 

Episode 22 - St Andrew’s Day with Rev. Pete Nunnally from St Mary’s Episcopal Church, Arlington, VA

Marking Saint Andrew’s Day 2022 we are joined by angler and priest, Pete Nunnally. Pete shares his passion for fishing and love of the outdoors as central to his life of faith and service. 

Episode 21 - The Right Rev. Megan Traquair, Bishop of Northern California

A lively conversation about agrarian ministry, garden tours, churchland stewardship, apple crisp, and more. 

Episode 20 - Ian McSweeney from the Agrarian Trust and Canon Abbott Bailey from the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia

A conversation with Ian McSweeney and Abbott Bailey about Church land stewardship and the Agrarian Commons work of the Agrarian Trust. A discussion on “how land is owned, how tenure and equity are conveyed, and how land stewardship is carried out.

Episode 19 - Norman Wirzba, author, theologian, and agrarian.

Norman Wirzba is the Gilbert T. Rowe Distinguished Professor of Christian Theology at Duke Divinity School and senior fellow at the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. He is the author and editor of sixteen books, including his latest, Agrarian Spirit: Cultivating Faith, Community, and the Land