Last week we watched a zoom conversation with Deb Haaland (left), U.S. Secretary of the Interior, entitled “Telling the American Story on Our Public Lands” (see the recording of this hour-long program here). The first Native American to serve as a cabinet secretary, Haaland is a member of Laguna Pueblo in New Mexico. Her comments outlined…
A Sermon at Nutana Park Mennonite Church Saskatoon, SK, Jul 28, 2024Ched Myers & Elaine Enns A man came from Baal-shalishah bringing food from the first fruits to the man of God: twenty loaves of barley and fresh ears of grain in his sack. Elisha said, “Give it to the people and let them eat.” …
by Elaine Enns and Ched Myers Sojourners, August 2022, pp 32-37 In April [2022], Pope Francis made a long-awaited apology to a Canadian delegation of Inuit, First Nations, and Metis leaders at the Vatican for the “deplorable” violations children suffered at Catholic-run Indian ResÂidential Schools for more than a cenÂtury. The pope committed to come…
Last month (April 2022) Elaine & Ched teamed up with ReconciliAsian to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Los Angeles Uprising (as we did for the 25th anniversary in 2017). Watch the webinar we did with Sue Park Hur, David Moore and Daniela Lazaro-Manalo.
A recent program on Healing Haunted Histories that focuses on the impacts California Missions had upon Indigenous peoples; we did this ~50 min. presentation to support our friends at the Los Angeles Catholic Worker, who are pushing back on their Archdiocese’s sentimentalizing of this history and legacy.
June 6th, 2021.Speaking to Westwood Presbyterian Church in Los Angeles, Elaine Enns and Ched Myers wove together BCM’s two most recent book projects—Watershed Discipleship (2016) and Healing Haunted Histories (2021)—showing how the latter integrates the ecological paradigm shifts of the former into Indigenous justice.
Mennonite Central Committee, Saskatchewan: April 29th, 2021. Joined by Cree elder Harry Lafond and other Saskatchewan leaders, Elaine and Ched introduce four aspects of restorative solidarity as outlined in Healing Haunted Histories in a 90-minute program with slides and Q & A.
Mennonite Church USA: April 8th, 2021. Speaking to the Mennonite Church USA Webinar Series, Elaine and Ched introduce important themes from Healing Haunted Histories in a 90-minute program with slides and Q & A.
A 90 minute program with slides and Q & A of Ched Myer’s introduction to two important themes from Healing Haunted Histories. It was part of the Festival Center School for Liberation’s Third Thursdays Series, taped in January just two weeks after the White Supremacist riot at the Capitol!(Note: Elaine Enns was ill and couldn’t…
Elaine and Ched presenting Healing Haunted Histories to Mennonite Church USA