From July 10-13 BCM and a local team hosted Fr. Emmanuel Asi of Maktaba-e-Anaveem PAK/People’s Forum for Contextual Theologies (right, a book launch at MAP). Asi is a leading promoter of liberation theology and women’s rights and empowerment throughout South Asia (see here and here). Andrew Jilani, a parishioner at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in…
Throughlines: Healing Haunted Histories Study Guide for Groups is companion resource packet to help facilitators and group participants engage past and continuing harms of settler colonialism and Indigenous dispossession, and deepen practices of restorative solidarity through the lens of Healing Haunted Histories.
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.
Bartcast 58, recorded Feb 14 2021, is another presentation from last year’s BKI: “ACTIVISTS OF COLOR AND INDIGENOUS SOLIDARITY” is a wide-ranging panel conversation between Rev. Sue Park Hur (left), Dr. Jimi Valiente-Neighbours (second from left), and Linda QuiQuivix (second from right) and Jeannette Ban (right)—all activist-educators and dear friends!
Recorded live at the 2021 Bartimaeus Kinsler Institute, Sat Feb 13, 2021.Alison McCrary is a tribal citizen of the Ani-Yun-Wiya United Cherokee Nation, a social justice movement lawyer, Catholic activist, restorative justice practitioner and an internationally sought-after speaker on social justice, spirituality and liberation.Alison currently serves as the Practitioner-In-Residence at Wake Forest University’s School of…
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.
Recorded July 15, 2021. Elaine and Ched offer a Bible study from Healing Haunted Histories (which is part of CLBSJ’s imprint at Wipf & Stock). Our comments are followed by a response from Maria De Freece Lawrence (Lenape) and Gretchen Thies Brokaw (Shinnecock), founding members of the Sweetwater Cultural Center, and a conversation about this…
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.
Bartimaeus Cooperative Ministries co-founders Elaine Enns and Ched Myers join Shane Claiborne & Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove to talk about watershed discipleship, the challenge of settler colonialism, and their new book, Healing Haunted Histories – for the June Morning Prayer for Red Letter Christians and the School for Conversion.
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.