Recorded 2/20/19 at the Bartimaeus Kinsler Institute: “Indigenous Justice and Christian Faith: Land, Law, Language.” Dr. Cordero’s plenary talk gave an overview of the tragic history of missionized California Indians and how it adversely affects the lives of unrecognized California natives today.
In this excerpt from our final BCM webinar in 2017: The Columbus Quincentenary as Turning Point in the Decolonization Struggle: A visit with Dr. Randy Woodley (here) – Ched and Elaine talk with Dr Randy Woodley about just a little of his work and life. This is a great preview to the 2019 Bartimaeus Kinsler…
by Dave Pritchett Watershed Discipleship Editorial Team Member In my essay, “Watershed Discipleship in Babylon,” in the Watershed Discipleship anthology, I argued that the grid system is fundamentally opposed to the watershed. Where the watershed unites creatures within it by the hydrological cycle, the grid divides by parceling land into commoditized areas. Water in the watershed…
On Sunday morning, as part of our celebration of the MLK Day weekend, we commemorated the 50th anniversary of the destruction of the site of the Asistencia Santa Gertrudis a few miles from our home, where a small Chumash village survived between 1830 and 1865, giving the name “Casitas” to the area. After a hurried…
A beautiful, relatively smoke-free week in early fall greeted Presbyterians and others from across the country as they gathered at Menucha Retreat & Conference Center on the Oregon side of the Columbia River Gorge the last week of September. After an unauthorized firecracker sparked the Eagle Creek fire in early September about 20 miles east…
As we head into the Thanksgiving holiday weekend in the United States, it’s great to think about all the things we can be grateful for. It is good to have a time to pause and reflect, to participate in the seasonality of gratitude for the year’s bountiful harvest, and to gather with family and friends….
A group of Christian theologians and activists recently created a statement entitled: “Theological Declaration on Christian Faith and White Supremacy,” regarding the incompatibility of Christianity and white supremacy. The authors particularly note the basis of white supremacy in its “Christian” form on colonization of the land and the harmful theological premises that go along with…