{"podcast":{"title":"Texas Impact's Weekly Witness","slug":"texas-impact-s-weekly-witness-999888","podcast_index_feed_id":999888,"rss_url":"https://texasimpact.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"https://texasimpact.org/weekly-witness-home/","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/e/4/2/3/e4232453b43db14c16c3140a3186d450/WW_GRFX_2026_SQR.png","author":"Texas Impact","episode_count":367,"summary":"Weekly Witness is a weekly opportunity for Texans of faith to learn about important public policy issues through a faith lens, and find out timely opportunities to participate in the public policy process. Host Scott Atnip is Texas Impact's Director of Public Witness. His guests come from a wide assortment of policy disciplines and faith traditions.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/texas-impact-s-weekly-witness-999888"},"episode":{"title":"Weekly Witness Ep.509 A Life of Faithful Advocacy with Mel Caraway","slug":"weekly-witness-ep-509-a-life-of-faithful-advocacy-with-mel-caraway","published_at":"2026-04-22T20:56:34+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/texas-impact-s-weekly-witness-999888/weekly-witness-ep-509-a-life-of-faithful-advocacy-with-mel-caraway","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/texas-impact-s-weekly-witness-999888","url":"https://texasimpact.libsyn.com/weekly-witness-ep509-a-life-of-faithful-advocacy-with-mel-caraway","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/texasimpact/WW_Ep509_Mel_Caraway_Audio.mp3?dest-id=668976","summary":"This week, Scott was joined by Rev. Mel Caraway, a retired United Methodist pastor and long-time Texas Impact Board Member. Mel is a leader in the faith-based climate advocacy space at the denominational level and international level as a long-time COP attendee. Rev. Caraway joined the conversation to talk about his faith journey and how climate advocacy became his area of focus. He also talked about the work listeners could take to engage their community and congregation in effective climate work—a perfect conversation for this Earth Day. We hope you enjoy this episode and invite a friend to listen along. If you share it in your social media, make sure to tag us! To learn more or get involved, check out Texas Impact's Action Center at texasimpact.org . Get full access to Texas Impact at texasimpact.substack.com/subscribe","meta_description":"This week, Scott was joined by Rev. Mel Caraway, a retired United Methodist pastor and long-time Texas Impact Board Member. Mel is a leader in the faith-b…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2011,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/texas-impact-s-weekly-witness-999888/episodes/weekly-witness-ep-509-a-life-of-faithful-advocacy-with-mel-caraway/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/texas-impact-s-weekly-witness-999888/weekly-witness-ep-509-a-life-of-faithful-advocacy-with-mel-caraway.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}