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…
As people of faith, how do we heal family histories entangled with colonization? By Elaine Enns Sojourners, January 2021, pp 30-33 A few years ago, Ched Myers and I discovered this graffiti in my old suburban neighborhood in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, scrawled across a fence just a block from where I grew up: “… as long…
Elaine and Ched were interviewed in mid-January 2021 by Jamie Pitts, editor of the Anabaptist Witness journal, about Healing Haunted Histories. They discuss the background and motivations for this project, the evocative title, and major themes addressed in the volume.
This presentation is a half hour reflection by Ched Myers, shared with New Covenant Worship Center in Santa Barbara in June of 2020, previewing a key aspect of Elaine and his forthcoming book Healing Haunted Histories (Cascade, 2020). Published Dec 31, 2020
On the Fourth Sunday of Advent 2020, to celebrate the Winter Solstice, we were joined by Harry and Germaine Lafond of Muskeg Lake Cree Nation in Saskatchewan and June Lorenzo of Laguna Pueblo. As they did six months ago on the Summer Solstice, they offered reflections on the Winter Solstice and helped us give a…
On Summer Solstice 2020 Elaine & Ched led an online liturgy for our local Farm Church. As it was also Father’s Day and Indigenous Peoples Day in Canada, we had a conversation with our friends and colleagues Harry and Germaine Lafond from the Muskeg Cree First Nation in Saskatchewan. The Lafonds talked about the importance…
On the Thursday morning of the BKI2020, Ched looked ‘haunting’ as it relates secrecy, lies and ‘myths of innocence’ plaguing our settler histories, and compares this to Jesus’ diagnosis of, and unmasking of ‘unclean spirits’, both political (Mark 5) and personal (Mark 9). He looks further at Luke 11 (v24-26) and the twin healing stories…
On the Wednesday morning of the 2020 Bartimaeus Kinsler Institute: Unsettling Histories | Decolonizing Discipleship | hukišunuškuy, Elaine again set the scene for the day’s work by looking at the place where her ancestors came to and their complicity in the impacts on people of the not-vacant land, but a land under siege by government…
On the Tuesday morning of the 2020 Bartimaeus Kinsler Institute: Unsettling Histories | Decolonizing Discipleship | hukišunuškuy, the day’s work was framed by Elaine as she told of her family’s history, their former home places and the circumstances of their leaving Europe.