Episode 5: The Best of Us: May 18 2025 with Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder

This episode’s topic is on The Love of the Land explored in two parts. For part one, which aired on WSLR on May 4, Jon Thaxton discussed land preservation and stewardship as a practical, spiritual, and vitalizing life-long practice. For part two, which aired on May 18, Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder discusses her new book, Mother, Creature, Kin: What We Learn from Nature's Mothers in a Time of Unraveling.Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder grew up in the Great Plains of Nebraska and Oklahoma. After receiving her Master's of Theological Studies at Harvard Divinity School, her writing became focused on the confluence of relationship to place with experiences of the sacred.From 2017 to 2022, she worked as a staff writer and editor for Emergence Magazine, an online and print publication exploring the intersection of culture, ecology, and spirituality. Her writing can also be found in publications such as The Atlantic, The Common, The Slowdown, Crannóg Magazine, EcoTheo Review, From the Ground Up, as well as in the edited poetry collection Writing the Land, and in Katie Holten's book The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape.