STEVE RICHARDS
Steve Richards is a co-founder and director of the TheoEco Institute. An environmentalist at heart, he is deeply concerned with how the intersection of theology and economics impact the ecology, all of which is the kernel that led to the TheoEco Institute. He and his daughter Bobbie Richards produced TheoEco’s first feature-length documentary “Piles of Bricks,” a film about the April 2015 earthquakes in Nepal and the following recovery efforts. He produces all of TheoEco’s documentaries.
Steve was born in Camden, New Jersey, raised in Miami, FL, and spent decades in finance in New England before finding his more missionary side in 2010 via environmentalist leanings and a quixotic attempt to discern the role the Spirit plays in the world's economic activities. He finished his first study, Economics In the Gospels while studying theology and economics at Yale in 2014.
Richards founded the TheoEco Institute in 2015, a non-profit concerned with documenting, assisting, and researching those entangled in environmental and economic predicaments. Documentaries are a big part of TheoEco's focus, as are its connections with Nepal, the 2015 earthquakes there, and the National Theological College in Kathmandu, where Richards has been a visiting professor since 2015.
Contact him at stever@theoeco.org.
Steve was born in Camden, New Jersey, raised in Miami, FL, and spent decades in finance in New England before finding his more missionary side in 2010 via environmentalist leanings and a quixotic attempt to discern the role the Spirit plays in the world's economic activities. He finished his first study, Economics In the Gospels while studying theology and economics at Yale in 2014.
Richards founded the TheoEco Institute in 2015, a non-profit concerned with documenting, assisting, and researching those entangled in environmental and economic predicaments. Documentaries are a big part of TheoEco's focus, as are its connections with Nepal, the 2015 earthquakes there, and the National Theological College in Kathmandu, where Richards has been a visiting professor since 2015.
Contact him at stever@theoeco.org.
Filmography
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A feature-length documentary that tells the story of flooding in South Florida—flooding that has happened in the past, is happening now, and will continue to happen in the future.
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TheoEco’s mini-documentary series features some of the hardest hit areas of Kathmandu from the 2015 earthquakes, the rebuilding efforts, and the people affected.
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This feature-length documentary goes to Nepal to see how the Christian minority prays, lives, survives, even thrives, where Hindus & Buddhists dominate.
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The follow up to TheoEco's mini-documentary collection: Piles of Bricks, the new film shines light on the rebuilding efforts following Nepal's devastating earthquakes in April and May of 2015.
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A somewhat iconoclastic 10-class treatment of the Economics in the Gospels study. It tunes down the theological in favor of focusing an economics and historical lens on the accounts of the Gospels.
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Research/Publications
- Economics in the Gospels – A study of the economic activity in the first four books of the New Testament (Available on Amazon)
- The Trinity and the Invisible Hand – A tongue-in-cheek look at when God gave mankind Capitalism
- Gospels on Ferguson – A study related to what the Gospels have to say on Ferguson
- Jesus Loves Capitalists Too, I'm Sure – An essay on capitalists and what Jesus might have had to say about us