Focusing on how restorative justice applies to historical violations, including issues of intergenerational trauma and healing; historical responsibility; and communal narratives among ‘Settlers’ and its impacts on our relationships with our Indigenous neighbors.
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 Residential Schools for more than a century. The pope committed to come…
Elaine Enns on: “Trauma, White Privilege, and Innocence: Mennonitesand Settler Colonialism on the Canadian Prairies”Recorded May 17, 2022. Delivered online to Free University of Amsterdam as part of a 7-part series on Mennonites and Innocence.
by Elaine Enns Geez, Fall 2021 In public school, I learned that Canada had been “kinder” to Indigenous peoples compared to the U.S., evidenced by the relative lack of “Indian Wars.” Nineteenth century government policies, however, tell a different story.
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),…
June 6th, 2021.Speaking to Westwood Presbyterian Church in Los Angeles, Elaine Enns and Ched Myers wove together BCM’s two most recent book projects—Watershed Discipleship (2016) and Healing Haunted Histories (2021)—showing how the latter integrates the ecological paradigm shifts of the former into Indigenous justice.
Bartimaeus Cooperative Ministries co-founders Elaine Enns and Ched Myers join Shane Claiborne & Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove to talk about watershed discipleship, the challenge of settler colonialism, and their new book, Healing Haunted Histories – for the June Morning Prayer for Red Letter Christians and the School for Conversion.
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…
Ched gave this keynote talk on the fiftieth anniversary of the Catholic Committee of Appalachia, an exemplary faith-rooted organizing collaborative. After establishing his “kindredness” with exploited mountain folk, Ched surveys the Jubilee theme in scripture. He then suggests three trajectories of Jubilee faith today:a) Return to the land for those displaced as socio-ecological re-placement and…