Jo Swinney – Creation Care, Simplicity and Living Hope

In this deeply reflective conversation, Kathleen welcomes Jo Swinney, Director of Communications for A Rocha International, a global Christian conservation organization working in 25 countries.Jo shares the origin story of A Rocha, founded by her parents in Portugal in 1983 to protect a threatened wetland along a critical bird migration route. What began as a small, place-based conservation effort has grown into a global movement rooted in faith, science, and long-term habitat restoration.Together, Kathleen and Jo explore how Christians can rethink creation care, why storytelling changes hearts more effectively than facts alone, and how everyday choices — what we wear, what we buy, how we consume — can become quiet acts of hope rather than expressions of perfectionism.