Episode 12 - Tim Van Meter on the Spiritual Side of Aging

Tim teaches at a small theological school in Ohio where his classroom spills into fields and wetlands. He helped launch a campus farm that feeds the dining hall and a 150-family CSA, tying soil to spirit, dinner to dignity. He names his work “ecological theology,” asking why, if this Earth is our only home, we so often treat it like a disposable container.Our conversation wanders the way good pilgrimages do. We ask whether technology can be a lantern rather than a lure, and if story work—writing it, voicing it, listening to it again and again—functions as spiritual practice in a secular age. We talk about using emerging tools, even AI, as instruments of attention rather than distraction—craft for wisdom, not noise.