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Thomas Johnston

Thomas Johnston

ELCA Lutheran pastor at St. James Lutheran Church in Rockwell, NC; co-host of "Your Matter Matters" podcast exploring faith and science

Jun 12, 2026

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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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So that's my first meeting with Will was back in 2017.
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I then I was at college in Charleston, South Carolina, which is and the other Carolina below North Carolina.
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So I moved to Hickory where Will's church in 2019 hosted a regional retreat for So that's where I got reintroduced to Holy Trinity Chapel Hill.
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Then Your Matter Matters came around in 2024, 2025.
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But before that, Will's Church received a grant from Fuller Theological Seminary on science and faith and how do you make that work in ministry.

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Or, you know, around a century, you know, mobilizing people with that type of fear, that affective fear, how does it then prime us for this particular moment when that fear means that we can't tolerate a view that diverges with our own?

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