As a kick-off to the second, more autumnal, season of Let’s Hear it from the Underside I am taking part in a pod-march and featuring an incredible podcast made by David Benjamin Blower & Tim Nash called Everybody Now, about the climate crisis. 

It features the voices of XR co-founder, Gail Bradbrook, climate scientist Kevin Anderson, theologian & poet Rowan Williams, community organiser Damaris Albuquerque, theologian Hannah Malcolm, ecologists & activist Alastair Mcintosh and poet Pádraig Ó Tuama and more. 

When I listened and was so moved by how the contributors talked so bravely and vulnerably about the global crisis we face and about grief, hope, faith and action. 

I was also struck by how they talked about how their spirituality helped them find hope by turning toward the crisis and staring down the barrel of it, rather than use trite religion to deny and thus exacerbate it; something we see so much of from some the loudest shouting folk in that world. 

It is mature, beautiful, soothing and stirring. 

In part two I catch up with creator, David Benjamin Blower, to ask him my questions and discuss our shared experiences and the overlapping themes of Everybody Now and Let’s Hear it from the Underside. 

Please do make space and have a listen.