Current Issue: We Are Still Here

Part 2: Environmental Justice and Native Peoples – A Conversation with Doreen Simmonds

Lee: Yeah. And it’s so many ways that people don’t realize  like when you were just talking about the snow and the ice and the caribou,  that’s not something that I would think about. Those are the kinds of things that … Continue reading

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Witness and Recovery on Long Island: An Interview with Mike Smith

Chris:We were asked by the General Assembly of the church to look at the Doctrine of Discovery to understand its implications historically and the contemporary damage that it continues to do. I don’t think there is any more historic perspective … Continue reading

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Syria: The Burden of Memory

Does the name Mohammed Mossadegh ring a bell for you? For your congregation?  It did not for the New York Times when it published the article “The Tension between America and Iran, Explained”.  A major boulevard in Tehran is named … Continue reading

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The Trilemma of Settler Colonialism

The words “settlers” and “territories” harken back to the earliest stories that came from the Europeans who sailed to the “New World.” They have complicated histories which go back to our nation’s original sins of slavery and the genocide of … Continue reading

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