This conversation was incredibly meaningful, and has encouraged me to double down on caring about issues that the world is *very* good at luring me into lukewarm territory, like avoiding harmful ingredients and buying slavery free chocolate. Less screen time and plastic for our kids, more fairytales and building forts ❤️ Also was an encouragement to finish LOTR: ROTK because all these orthodox podcasts keep sending out spoilers 😂 Good stuff gentlemen! God grant you many years!
Loved the discussion, guys. As a wildlife biologist, I’ve really taken the calling of gardening Creation to heart and it’s nice to hear it well articulated by those who know their theology. It’s also so funny to see the intersection of fantasy stories and Christian environmentalism-perhaps not so incongruous as one might first think (I also write fantasy novels lol). Y’all didn’t touch on this, but I think the respect Tolkien and Lewis had for myth is very much related to their respect for nature. The ancients saw spiritual value and life in nature, which is something even Christian nature-lovers miss. A tree is more than a tree, as in mythopoeia.
