Matthew Sleeth, MD

Following a new calling, Matthew Sleeth, MD resigned from his position as chief of the medical staff and director of the ER to teach, preach, and write full time about faith and the environment. He now helps lead the growing creation care movement.

Speaking nearly 900 times in the last two years, Sleeth has shared the creation care message from mega-churches like Mars Hill in Grand Rapids and Grace Fellowship in Baltimore, to Southern Baptist churches in the Bible Belt, mosques in California, and synagogues in Boston. He is widely sought after on college campuses -- schools such as Dartmouth, Yale, and Vanderbilt, as well as Christian schools like Wheaton, Asbury, Calvin, Grove City, and Westmont. Sleeth has reached hundreds of thousands more on radio programs, including Moody Broadcasting's Prime Time America, Open Line, and Midday Connection, as well as through television interviews (Christian Broadcasting Network, 700 Club), films (The Great Warming, RENEWAL, Our Father's World), and podcasts.

Sleeth had been living the American dream as an ER director until the increasing number of chronic illnesses he was witnessing gave him a new environmental awareness. In his first book, Serve God, Save the Planet: A Christian Call to Action, Sleeth shares his family's journey to simplicity, stronger relationships, and richer spiritual lives. Beginning by giving away half of their possessions and moving to a house half the size of their former garage, his family found that the more they subtracted, the more they gained in family unity, purpose, and joy. Within a year, they had reduced their electricity use and trash production by nine-tenths and their fossil fuel use by two-thirds the national average.

In his next book, The Gospel According to the Earth: Why the Good Book Is a Green Book (HarperOne), he uses the Bible as a teaching mechanism, retelling the often radical counter-culture Bible stories that motivated his environmental journey and showing Christians how to get behind the issues.

Sleeth is a graduate of The George Washington University School of Medicine and has two post-doctoral fellowships, but he says that the two most important initials behind his name are M.D., which stands for "My Daddy." He served as the first visiting scholar in creation care at any higher-education institution and currently serves as the executive director of Blessed Earth, an educational nonprofit that inspires and equips faith communities to become better stewards of the earth.

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