Building Capacity for a Discipleship of Decolonization: Frameworks and Practices for Reparative Justice

Building Capacity for a Discipleship of Decolonization: Frameworks and Practices for Reparative Justice

Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary – Indigenous Study Committee Co-sponsored by the Center for Ecological Regeneration and the Stead Center for Ethics and Values in support of Garrett’s Indigenous Study Committee. “Building Capacity for a Discipleship of Decolonization: Frameworks and Practices for Reparative Justice” Elaine Enns and Ched Myers introduced the Garrett community to the model…

Placing Ourselves in Colonialism: Building Capacity for Our Discipleship of Decolonization

Placing Ourselves in Colonialism: Building Capacity for Our Discipleship of Decolonization

United Church of Canada Elaine and Ched took a brief tour of their book, Healing Haunted Histories, and shared the questions and reflections that helped to frame their exploration of family histories, and how they intersect with colonialism, and their impact on contemporary discipleship. Note: Elaine & Ched begin their comments at 4:00 and conclude…

Two Threads, One Tapestry: A Settler-Indigenous Conversation Restitching the Landlines, Bloodlines, and Songlines of History

Two Threads, One Tapestry: A Settler-Indigenous Conversation Restitching the Landlines, Bloodlines, and Songlines of History

– an informal conversation between Elaine and gkisedtanamoogk (Mashpee Wampanoag) gkisedtanamoogk (it/thing) is Wampanoag and served on the Maine Wabanaki-State Child Welfare Truth and Reconciliation Commission – one of the many creative ways it strives to bridge the socio-political polarization of the Indigenous Nations of Turtle Island and the newcomer nation-states of North America. Elaine…

Ukraine Pilgrimage 2022: Rose Berger at Church of Foothills

Ukraine Pilgrimage 2022: Rose Berger at Church of Foothills

This video is a edited version of the talk Rose Berger gave at the Church of the Foothills UCC in Ventura, CA. The original recording is here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KvsQFwuXjE From the CoF recording:On July 10, 2022, Rose Marie Berger, senior editor at Sojourners magazine and veteran Catholic peace and justice activist, offered a short presentation followed…

Scholar-Activist Encounter: Discussion of Healing Haunted Histories with Sweetwater Cultural Center

Scholar-Activist Encounter: Discussion of Healing Haunted Histories with Sweetwater Cultural Center

How do activism and scholarship contribute to our understanding of Scripture in the world today? On July 15, 2021, CLBSJ welcomed Elaine Enns and Ched Myers for a discussion of their newest book, Healing Haunted Histories: A Settler Discipleship of Decolonization. They were joined by Maria De Freece Lawrence (Lenape) and Gretchen Thies Brokaw (Shinnecock),…

“Stories of Repair: A Conversation about Reparative Justice”

“Stories of Repair: A Conversation about Reparative Justice”

5/26/2021 webinar celebrating the release of new educational resources from our Coalition with a Zoom conversation about reparative justice with contributors Erica Littlewolf, Elaine Enns and Ched Myers, and John Stoesz. What does it mean to repair harms done to Indigenous communities and their lands under the Doctrine of Discovery? How can the Church participate…

Ched Myers: Recollecting Faith, Restorative Discipleship

Ched Myers: Recollecting Faith, Restorative Discipleship

Ched gave this keynote talk on the fiftieth anniversary of the Catholic Committee of Appalachia, an exemplary faith-rooted organizing collaborative. After establishing his “kindredness” with exploited mountain folk, Ched surveys the Jubilee theme in scripture. He then suggests three trajectories of Jubilee faith today:a) Return to the land for those displaced as socio-ecological re-placement and…