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

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

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…

From “Creation Care to “Watershed Discipleship”: Re-Placing Ecological Theology and Practice

by Ched Myers Published in the Conrad Grebel Review, Vol. 32, NO. 3 Fall 2014, pp 250-275. 26 pages. In this article Ched explores how our theology might be re-placed in light of the arrival of glocbal ecological crisis: Thomas Meton’s dictum, uttered under the shadow of an earlier, equally  foreboding apocalyptic moment (the 1962…