Best Bellwethers Network Podcasts (2025)

Send us a text Dr. Brent Hughes takes us on a fascinating journey through California's coastal ecosystems, revealing the unexpected ways sea otters transform their environments. As an Associate Professor at Sonoma State University with a background spanning from the center of landlocked Kansas to the rugged Pacific coast, Hughes brings unique persp…

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Mark: Part 2 - Week 16 - "Marriage and Divorce" 50:18

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Week 16, Mark 10:1-12, Nathan Chapman - Lead PastorBy Bellwether Church

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Turning Trash into Treasure: How the US-based Non-Profit Long Way Home with its Hero School are Transforming Guatemalan Communities 58:00

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Send us a text What if the trash polluting our environment could be transformed into schools, homes, and opportunities? In San Juan Comalapa, Guatemala, that's what's happening thanks to Matt Panaitz and Long Way Home. 20 years ago, Matt was a Peace Corps volunteer stationed in this predominantly Mayan community nestled in Guatemala's Western Highl…

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Mark: Part 2 - Week 15 - "Sin is Serious, Hell is Real" 39:57

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Week 15, Mark 9:42-50, Nathan Chapman - Lead PastorBy Bellwether Church

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Mark: Part 2 - Week 14 - "True Greatness" 35:49

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Week 14, Mark 9:30-41, Nathan Chapman - Lead PastorBy Bellwether Church

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Every Second Breath Project-Stories from the Frontlines: Emmy-Award Winning Filmmakers Cynthia Abbott & Andrea Leland from Petaluma, CA 58:57

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Send us a text Storytelling has the power to transform how we see our oceans and inspire meaningful action. Two visionary filmmakers, Cynthia Abbott and Andrea Leland, join us to share how they're using documentary filmmaking to spotlight both the crisis facing our marine environments and the everyday heroes working to save them. Their Emmy-winning…

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Mark: Part 2 - Week 13 - "Help My Unbelief" - Guest Speaker - Andrew Sheely 40:02

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Week 13, Mark 9: 14-29, Guest Speaker - Andrew SheelyBy Bellwether Church

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Beyond the UN Ocean Conference: A Captain's Call to Action - Captain Paul Watson, from Paris 58:54

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Send us a text Captain Paul Watson speaks with us from Paris about his experiences at the UN Ocean Conference, meetings with global leaders including President Macron, and his continued ocean conservation efforts after his release from a Greenland prison. • The UN Ocean Conference yielded a major victory with 64 countries ratifying the High Seas Tr…

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Mark: Part 2 - Week 12 - "Jesus Transfigured" - Guest Speaker - Samuel Parkinson 52:16

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Week 12, Mark 9:2-13, Guest Speaker - Samuel ParkinsonBy Bellwether Church

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Rising Human-Generated Noise Impacts Marine Life (worse if deep sea mining, offshore drilling, & windmills get green lit) We Talk with Michael Stocker, Ocean Conservation Research Founder/Director 1:01:49

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Send us a text The ocean isn't silent—it's a symphony of natural sounds that marine life depends on for survival. But human-generated noise pollution is drowning out this essential communication network with potentially devastating consequences. Michael takes us deep into the world of marine bioacoustics, revealing how political decisions directly …

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Mark: Part 2 - Week 11 - "Who Do you Say that I am?" 39:34

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Week 11, Mark 8:22-9:1, Nathan Chapman - Lead PastorBy Bellwether Church

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Gray Whales in Peril: San Francisco Bay - What is Being Done, or Can Be Done? We Talk with Cetacean Specialist Josie Slaathaug at The Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito 58:59

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Send us a text In this episode, we talk about a devastating crisis that unfolded this year in the San Francisco Bay. March to June 2025 saw an unprecedented 36 gray whales enter, and stay for extended periods in one of the West coast's busiest waterways. The result? A staggering mortality rate with over 20 dead whales—roughly half of all observed i…

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Mark: Part 2 - Week 10 - "Jesus Feeds 4,000" 46:03

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Week 10, Mark 8:1-21, Nathan Chapman - Lead PastorBy Bellwether Church

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Local Voices of Resistance as A Nation Rises Against Presidential Overreach 55:53

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Send us a text A powerful wave of peaceful resistance swept across America on June 14, 2025, as over 5 million citizens gathered in 2,100 cities and towns for No Kings Day. From small coastal communities like Wallala to major metropolitan centers, Americans of all ages exercised their First Amendment rights to voice opposition against what many vie…

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Mark: Part 2 - Week 9 - "All Things Well" 38:58

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Week 9, Mark 7:24-37, Nathan Chapman - Lead PastorBy Bellwether Church

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Mark: Part 2 - Week 8 - "What Defiles a Person?" - Guest Speaker - Josh Brooks 36:49

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Week 8, Mark 7:1-23, Guest Speaker - Josh BrooksBy Bellwether Church

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Deep Sea Mining: Promise or Peril? 59:02

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Send us a text Beneath the waves, in the darkness of the deep ocean, lies one of Earth's last pristine wilderness areas – a place we've barely begun to understand. Now, a high-stakes race is underway to mine valuable minerals from the seafloor, with profound implications for marine ecosystems and our planet's future. Richard Charter from The Ocean …

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Mark: Part 2 - Week 7 - "Water Walk" - Guest Speaker - Andrew Sheely 34:19

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Week 7, Mark 6:45-56, Guest Speaker - Andrew SheelyBy Bellwether Church

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Saving Our Seas: Inside the World's Largest Marine Mammal Hospital with Adam Ratner in Sausalito, CA USA 59:19

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Send us a text What do marine mammals tell us about the health of our oceans? The answer might surprise you—and it's more urgent than ever as climate change transforms our coastal environments. Adam Ratner, Director of Conservation Engagement at The Marine Mammal Center, takes us behind the scenes of the world's largest marine mammal hospital as it…

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Mark: Part 2 - Week 6 - "Meal but More" 42:07

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Week 6, Mark 6:30-44, Nathan Chapman - Lead PastorBy Bellwether Church

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Mark: Part 2 - Week 5 - "Rejection and Resilience" 38:32

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Week 5, Mark 6:1-29, Nathan Chapman - Lead PastorBy Bellwether Church

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Facing Again Threats to California's Protected Coast, this time by the Trump Administration-Our Talk with the Ocean Foundation's Sr. Fellow, Richard Charter 58:59

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Send us a text The battle for California's coast has erupted once more as offshore drilling returns to Santa Barbara and threatens to spread northward along the entire Pacific coastline. This alarming development follows Trump's late April executive order, which targets even our most protected ocean areas—National Marine Sanctuaries—for oil and gas…

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Mark: Part 2 - Week 4 - "Human Despair and Divine Possibility" 34:04

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Week 4, Mark 5:21-43, Nathan Chapman - Lead PastorBy Bellwether Church

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Living Nature - More Valuable Than Dead Nature: How Seacology is Helping Island Nations & Indigenous People Economically & Ecologically 59:02

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Send us a text Seacology is a charitable organization headquartered in Berkeley, CA that works to preserve island ecosystems and cultures around the world, as well as conducting annual educational ecotourism trips. Founded in 1991 with the work of ethnobotanist Paul Alan Cox, the high risk of extinction for island fauna and the decline in coral ree…

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Mark: Part 2 - Week 3 - "Great Mercy" 38:27

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Week 3, Mark 5:1-20, Nathan Chapman - Lead PastorBy Bellwether Church

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SEE Turtles Organization President, Brad Nahill on Ecotourism & protecting Sea Turtles - Leading up to World Sea Turtle Week June 2025 59:25

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Send us a text This conversation is a lead up to the annual Sea Turtle Week each June, which kicks off with World Ocean Day June 8th and ends on the 16, Sea Turtle Week. 7 sea turtle species are highlighted each day along with one of the threats they face. Join Brad Nahill’s See Turtle organization and more than 150 global partners in raising aware…

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Reconnecting Markets with Nature Part 2: An Earth Day Talk with Financial Economist Ralph Chami & More About Blue Green Future 59:21

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Send us a text Today’s episode is brought to you by Flukes International and is the 2nd half of an Earth Day 2025 conversation we had with Ralph Chami who is Co-Founder/CEO of Blue Green Future, a large team of innovators and thought leaders for natural capital finance and a nature-based economy. Ralph has over 32 years of experience as a financial…

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Mark: Part 2 - Week 1 - "Subversive Kingdom" 36:53

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Week 1, Mark 4:21-34, Nathan Chapman - Lead PastorBy Bellwether Church

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Reconnecting Markets with Nature: An Earth Day Talk with Renowned Financial Economist Ralph Chami (part 1 of 2) 59:02

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Send us a text What if we could see the invisible? The magnificent blue whale, stretching 110 feet long through ocean depths, remains completely invisible to our economic systems—until it's killed. In this profound Earth Day conversation with Ralph Chami, we discover how reconnecting our market systems with living nature might be our most powerful …

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Easter 2025 - Easter Sunday - "Remember Christ Risen" 34:27

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Easter Sunday, 2 Timothy 2:8, Nathan Chapman - Lead PastorBy Bellwether Church

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From Nigeria, Africa - Ahmed Tiamiyu Sr. Policy Advisor to Nigeria & The United Nations & Exec. Dir. CAPws--Community Action Against Plastic Waste in the Global South 59:01

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Send us a text Our guest today is from Nigeria, Africa - a dynamic scientist who is dedicating his life to helping communities in the Global South do something about the enormous amounts of waste, specifically plastic waste, that is being exported by higher income countries to lower income countries. The name of the non-profit organization is CAPws…

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Easter 2025 - Palm Sunday - "Jesus is Superior" 46:22

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Palm Sunday, Hebrews 1:1-4, Nathan Chapman - Lead PastorBy Bellwether Church

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Ecotoxicologist Susanne Brander from the Scientists Coalition for the United Nations Global Treaty on Plastics Talks About the Next Session This Fall in Geneva Switzerland 58:56

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Send us a text In today’s episode we talk with Susanne Brander, an Ecotoxicologist who is 1 of 12 core steering committee members overseeing 300 international scientific experts within the International Scientists Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty who are assisting with Navigating the Complexities of Plastics. An Ecotoxicologist as Susanne…

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The Opposition Within - Week 5 - "Fleshly Indulgence Vs Fruitful Self Control" 41:14

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Week 5, Galatians 5:21 Romans 13:11-14, Nathan Chapman - Lead PastorBy Bellwether Church

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Personhood for Nature & Living Things and Nature-Based Economies - a Look Back & Forward in 2025 "A Bellwether Year for the Ocean" with Resilient Earth Hosts Leigh Anne Lindsey (Producer/Editor), Scott ... 59:01

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Send us a text This episode includes a radio show we recorded a year ago, April 2024, when we talked about the March 28, 2024 Declaration for the Ocean signed by Indigenous leaders of New Zealand, the Cook Islands, Tahiti, Tonga, Hawaii, and Easter Island. This treaty declared whales to be legal persons with inherent rights, including the right to …

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The Opposition Within - Week 4 - "Fleshly Contempt vs Fruitful Community" 45:31

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Week 4, Galatians 5:20-21, James 3:14-18, Nathan Chapman - Lead PastorBy Bellwether Church

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The Opposition Within - Week 3 - "Fleshly Idolatry and Sorcery vs Fruitful Worship" 54:17

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Week 3, Galatians 5:20, Ephesians 6:12-18, Nathan Chapman - Lead PastorBy Bellwether Church

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Exploring Marine Pollution with Dr. Judith Weis Professor Emeritus Biology Rutgers University / Author Marine Pollution "What Everyone Needs to Know" 2nd edition (Oxford University Press) 59:01

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Send us a text In this episode of the Resilient Earth podcast, we talk with Dr. Judith Weis, a marine pollution expert and professor emerita at Rutgers University about the critical issues surrounding marine pollution, including the various sources of pollution, the importance of estuaries and marshlands, and the impact of climate change on ocean h…

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The Opposition Within - Week 2 - "Fleshly Lusts vs Fruitful Love" - Guest Speaker - Andrew Sheely 48:11

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Week 2, Gal 5:19, 1 Thessalonians 4:3-8, Guest Speaker - Andrew SheelyBy Bellwether Church

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Montreal's O'Land Stations' Founder Rachel Labbe-Bellas On Their Single Use Plastic Solution - Quick, Filtered, Refillable Water Stations for Large Events Helps Companies Go Green While Reducing the Carbon ... 57:22

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Send us a text Our guest this week is Rachel Labbe-Bellas, founder of Montreal Canada-based O’Land Stations which hydrates the world's largest entertainment events & venues with profit-oriented cylindrical water stations that reduce single use plastic - one of the biggest issues now facing our planet. It’s quite the success story, from launching ri…

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The Opposition Within - Week 1 - "The Opposing Desires of Sinful Flesh vs Spiritual Fruit" 49:43

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Week 1, Galatians 5:13-19, Nathan Chapman - Lead PastorBy Bellwether Church