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.
A 90 minute program with slides and Q & A of Ched Myer’s introduction to two important themes from Healing Haunted Histories. It was part of the Festival Center School for Liberation’s Third Thursdays Series, taped in January just two weeks after the White Supremacist riot at the Capitol!(Note: Elaine Enns was ill and couldn’t…
February 12 to 15, 2021 Bartimaeus Kinsler Institute In 2021 the BKI was online (wasn’t everything online in 2020/21?). For the third consecutive year we explored the work of decolonizing discipleship. We looked at how white settlers can build just relations with Indigenous and other communities of color in North America, hearing from seasoned faith…
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…
Elaine and Ched presenting Healing Haunted Histories to Mennonite Church USA
This presentation is a half hour reflection by Ched Myers, shared with New Covenant Worship Center in Santa Barbara in June of 2020, previewing a key aspect of Elaine and his forthcoming book Healing Haunted Histories (Cascade, 2020). Published Dec 31, 2020
Sermon delivered to New Covenant, Church for the Nations in Santa Barbara, CA on Nov 29, 2020 by Elaine Enns.
Feb 17-21, 2020 Bartimaeus Kinsler Institute This year we will follow up on the BKI 2019, when we listened to and learned from a range of Indigenous voices concerning land, law and language (note: you do not need to have participated to join us in 2020). The 2020 BKI, as Rev. Art Cribbs puts it,…
by Elaine Enns and Ched Myers: list price $38.00Available now direct from Wipf & Stock in the US. In Canada, you can purchase from Common Word bookstore. In their latest book, Healing Haunted Histories: A Settler Discipleship of Decolonization, Elaine Enns and Ched Myers take on the “ghosts” of settler colonialism, Indigenous displacement, and white…
Feb 18-22, 2019 Bartimaeus Kinsler Institute Over 150 people gathered again at Camp Forest Home in the Ventura River Watershed You can see the Program Book; and the Photo Essay.
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…