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…

Trauma, White Privilege, and Innocence: Mennonites and Settler Colonialism on the Canadian Prairies

Trauma, White Privilege, and Innocence: Mennonites and Settler Colonialism on the Canadian Prairies

Elaine Enns on: “Trauma, White Privilege, and Innocence: Mennonitesand Settler Colonialism on the Canadian Prairies”Recorded May 17, 2022. Delivered online to Free University of Amsterdam as part of a 7-part series on Mennonites and Innocence.

Big Elkin Creek: Watershed Discipleship in Action

Big Elkin Creek: Watershed Discipleship in Action

One way to practice watershed discipleship is to work on waterway restoration projects, such as the project in this video, depicting a restoration project along Big Elkin Creek in North Carolina. Rev. Stuart Taylor, retired minister of Elkin Presbyterian Church, has been integrally involved in this project. He has helped communicate and mediate between members…