by Elaine Enns
Geez, Fall 2015, 4 pp.
Elaine summarizes two resistances in settler communities to building solidarity with Indigenous neighbors: selective memory and distortions in communal narratives.
Full Article: Settler Response-Ability SKU: E15-2-Pa
By Ched Myers The Witness, July-August, 1996, 2 pp. Most of us in the U.S. suffer from a profound alienation from history. In our imperial culture, inconvenient historical narratives have tended to be silenced while legitmating narratives have been mystified. We live with a peculiarly unaccountable, if not amnesiac, relationship toward the past. Whether we…
by Ched Myers In Eerdmans Reader in Contemporary Political Theology, Ed. by W. Cavanaugh and C. Hovey, Eerdmans, pp. 337-341. Full Article: Introduction to Part VI: Confronting the Powers SKU: 12-3-Pd
By Ched Myers The Living Pulpit. 5 pp. Mark’s gospel portrays Jesus interacting with children in two vignettes that appear close to each other (Mk 9:36-37 and 10:13-16) in a sequence of teaching episodes I call the “discipleship catechism” (1988:235ff). Both episodes begin with almost identical stage directions (Jesus “takes them in his arms,” using…
By Gary Gardner, Worldwatch, pp 26-30. 5 pp. In his book God’s Politics,evangelical minister Jim Wallis describes an episode from his seminary days when a fellow student took scissors and snipped out of an old Bible every verse that focused on poverty and wealth.The remaining text was tattered and fragile,reports Wallis;these economic themes occur in…
by Elaine Enns Canadian Mennonite, Vol 19 Issue 5, March 2015 6 pp. What are barriers to Settler solidarity with Indigenous neighbors? This article outlines three prospects and three problems that Settler descendants need to address in order to embrace “restorative solidarity” that recognizes past and continuing injustices and seeks to make things right. Full…
by Elaine Enns Sojourners, Dec 2012, 1 p. Elaine describes the horrific history of the Indian Residential Schools and her experience attending the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings in Halifax, NS and Saskatoon, SK, and the profound ethos of ritual, care and attentiveness to history, trauma and healing she found there. Full Article: A Shameful…
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