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.
Friends: Much of our attention has rightly been focused on ICE assaults in Minneapolis, as well as the amazing popular resistance there (including faith communities and many of our friends there, such as folks at Calvary Baptist Church, right). Please continue to pray and protest, that we might keep building momentum into a turning point…
And Re-introducing Two Timely BCM Publications18th Sunday after Pentecost This Sunday’s RCL gospel reading (Lk 17:11-19) is a straightforward object lesson about gratitude for gifts of healing. It is an important reminder for those of us trying to face and heal deep wounds past and present, not least in this fraught historical moment. As we…
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…
My love of the people, landscapes, flora and fauna of Saskatchewan is deep. This summer Ched and I again experienced its beauty as we traveled around the province by road and by water…
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.” …
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…
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…
– 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…
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…