Building Capacity for a Discipleship of Decolonization: Frameworks and Practices for Reparative Justice

Building Capacity for a Discipleship of Decolonization: Frameworks and Practices for Reparative Justice

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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…

Placing Ourselves in Colonialism: Building Capacity for Our Discipleship of Decolonization

Placing Ourselves in Colonialism: Building Capacity for Our Discipleship of Decolonization

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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…

Two Threads, One Tapestry: A Settler-Indigenous Conversation Restitching the Landlines, Bloodlines, and Songlines of History

Two Threads, One Tapestry: A Settler-Indigenous Conversation Restitching the Landlines, Bloodlines, and Songlines of History

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– 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…

The Church Must Change its Thinking about Indigenous Peoples:  An Interview with Harry Lafond on what it means to be both Cree and Catholic.

The Church Must Change its Thinking about Indigenous Peoples:  An Interview with Harry Lafond on what it means to be both Cree and Catholic.

ByElaine Enns and Ched Myers

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 Res­idential Schools for more than a cen­tury. The pope committed to come…

Scholar-Activist Encounter: Discussion of Healing Haunted Histories with Sweetwater Cultural Center

Scholar-Activist Encounter: Discussion of Healing Haunted Histories with Sweetwater Cultural Center

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How do activism and scholarship contribute to our understanding of Scripture in the world today? On July 15, 2021, CLBSJ welcomed Elaine Enns and Ched Myers for a discussion of their newest book, Healing Haunted Histories: A Settler Discipleship of Decolonization. They were joined by Maria De Freece Lawrence (Lenape) and Gretchen Thies Brokaw (Shinnecock),…

Doing Our Own Work

Doing Our Own Work

ByElaine Enns

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…

My Loss is your Loss: Toward Settler “Response-ability”

ByElaine Enns

by Elaine Enns Sojourners, October 2017 There is no place in North America that does not have an Indigenous history prior to European colonization. This article briefly describes history of Indigenous Peoples’ day and its impact; names some of the restorative solidarity work settlers are doing and wrestles with deeper issues of settler privilege, self-justifying…

Healing from “Lies that make us crazy”: Practices of Restorative Solidarity for Treaty Christians

ByElaine Enns and Ched Myers

by Elaine Enns Intotemak #49:  “Yours, Mine, Ours: Unravelling the Doctrine of Discovery,” Mennonite Church Canada, Fall 2016, pp. 138-142, with Ched Myers The DOD’s tapestry of lies continues to both shape and shatter our identities. This study looks at Colossians understanding of discipleship as defecting from a culture of lies about the world and…