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"God treats the worldas though it is filled with persons, some of which are humanand this world speaks its truth to us." Yale professor and Baptist minister, Willie Jennings, speaks about how we can hear this truth if we really stop to listen and attune to the natural world and shares the essential animist perspective of Jesus and the scriptures. This is an excerpt from "The Christian Doctrine of Creation: Reimagining an Animate and Communicative World," one of the interviews in the Yale/Coursera course: Christianity and Ecology. All of the courses are free to audit. To find out more about the courses, go to: https://fore.yale.edu/Resources/Yale-Coursera-Online-Courses Willie James Jennings is Associate Professor of Systematic Theology and Africana Studies at Yale Divinity School and an ordained Baptist minister. His bookThe Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Racewon the Grawemeyer Award in Religion, the largest prize for a theological work in North America. He also recently published a book that examines the problems of theological education within western education: After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging. He is currently working on a project titled: Unfolding the World: Recasting a Christian Doctrine of Creation. Find out more about him at: https://divinity.yale.edu/faculty-and-research/yds-faculty/willie-james-jennings