A New Resource Packet to Deepen our Discipleship of Decolonization

A New Resource Packet to Deepen our Discipleship of Decolonization

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.

Indigenous Peoples’ Day: The Importance of Healing and Gratitude

Indigenous Peoples’ Day: The Importance of Healing and Gratitude

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…

An Update on Healing Haunted Histories Work

An Update on Healing Haunted Histories Work

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…

“Stories of Repair: A Conversation about Reparative Justice”

“Stories of Repair: A Conversation about Reparative Justice”

5/26/2021 webinar celebrating the release of new educational resources from our Coalition with a Zoom conversation about reparative justice with contributors Erica Littlewolf, Elaine Enns and Ched Myers, and John Stoesz. What does it mean to repair harms done to Indigenous communities and their lands under the Doctrine of Discovery? How can the Church participate…