Eden Revisited
Roll up your sleeves and unpack your faith. Eden Revisited cuts through the noise of the modern world and journeys to the roots of wonder and beauty. Hosted by three young, millennial Catholics, this podcast is a conversation about getting in the dirt, cultivating the interior life, and re-enchanting the culture. New episodes released every other Thursday.
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Eden Revisited
#026: Musings on Material Stewardship w/ Ben Loomis
Imagine you have a blank slate and could reimagine the way goods and services are produced, managed, and distributed. How's it going to look? More of the same? Epic makeover? More local? More global? Tune in for a fresh take from Appalachia with Ben Loomis and his unique vision of material stewardship.
Ben hails from Boone, North Carolina and works at the Hunger & Health Coalition organizing resource distribution to needy families and writing grants. He's also the developer and founder of the Curio Machine, an innovative repurposing of old vending machines to sell local art. On today's show, we compare "first principles" for economic re-ordering, learn how "McDonaldization" is plaguing America, talk farms and communes, and offer ways to re-enchant the economy. Find more about Ben and his work in the links below.
Have a question, topic idea, gardening tip, anything? Email us at edenrevisitedpodcast@gmail.com. We'd love to give you a sprout out!
LINKS
- Hunger & Health Coalition
- The Curio Machine - Ben's entrepreneurial take on supporting local artists
- Free Radical Books - Ben's novel series
- Suicide statistics here and here
- G.K. Chesterton quote at end show: "“The truth is that exploration and enlargement make the world smaller. The telegraph and the steamboat make the world smaller. The telescope makes the world smaller; it is only the microscope that makes it larger. Before long the world will be cloven with a war between the telescopists and the microscopists. The first study large things and live in a small world; the second study small things and live in a large world. It is inspiriting without doubt to whizz in a motor-car round the earth, to feel Arabia as a whirl of sand or China as a flash of rice-fields. But Arabia is not a whirl of sand and China is not a flash of rice-fields. They are ancient civilizations with strange virtues buried like treasures. If we wish to understand them it must not be as tourists or inquirers, it must be with the loyalty of children and the great patience of poets. To conquer these places is to lose them."
