Sherri Nozik of Sacred Space Interior Website (www.sacredspaceinterior.com) interviews Elaine Enns about restorative justice, the impact of intergenerational trauma on Settler communities and how Settlers can address our own privilege and brokenness in order to work for justice. Thanks to Sherri for sharing the interview with us.
“Introduction to the 2019BKI Theme.” Recorded 2/18/19 at the Bartimaeus Kinsler Institute: “Indigenous Justice and Christian Faith: Land, Law, Language.”
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…
Passing through Oak View in late November 2018, Undertaking a sabbatical journey at a transition point in his life, Joshua Grace stopped by Oak View for a quiet chat with Elaine and Ched. Joshua’s CV is too long to list here, but he is a long time friend of BCM, and a key member of…
Myers Park Baptist Church in Charlotte, NC, recently hosted Elaine and Ched. Listen in as pastors Ben and Chrissy talk with them about their personal and political journeys of faith (individually and together) and how they found themselves as activist-teacher-scholars dedicating their lives to the critical re-connection of sanctuary, seminar, streets, and soil.
This Bartcast features a sermon delivered by Elaine and Ched at Myers Park Baptist Church in Charlotte, NC, on the occasion of their 75th anniversary. It is entitled “Political Bodies and Body Politics: Biblical Transgressions of Class/Race Divides.” It was given on 9/9/18 (16th Sun after Pent); the lectionary texts were Prov 22:1-2, 8-9, 22-23;…
In this Bartcast Elaine and Ched describe the life and the hospice journey of dying of their dear mentor, Ladon Sheats on the 16th anniversary of his passing. They discuss Ladon’s commitments to radical discipleship, and the profound lessons of accompanying him in a remarkable experience of community hospice, including their experiment of green burial.
From the Wednesday morning plenary at the 2018 Bartimaeus Kinsler Institute, Elaine reflects on “songlines” of faith that motivate us to work for liberation.
In this sermon on the last Sunday in Ordinary Time, Elaine and Ched explore Jesus’ famous parable of the sheep and the goats, and what that means for standing in solidarity with bodies. Recorded at Sojourner Grace Collective on 11/26/17 in San Diego, CA
An article by Elaine Enns is live now on Sojourners called “Becoming Unsettled.” In it, she tells the story of a region in Saskatchewan where she grew up, Stoney Knoll, a land that had been given to her Mennonite forebears by the Canadian government, and which by treaty belonged to the Young Chippewayans and other…