The words “settlers” and “territories” harken back to the earliest stories that came from the Europeans who sailed to the “New World.”
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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
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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 I feel like a lot of people don’t realize what
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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 among the Native American Presbyterians than yours and that of
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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 for this historical figure of the 20th century, but in
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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 indigenous peoples. But Americans don’t have a monopoly on these
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As we look across the different issues discussed in this series of articles in Unbound on the Doctrine of Discovery and how it relates to the Middle East today, one common theme emerges. Those of us who are white, American, and Christian have historically seen ourselves as special, as exceptional,
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Lee:I spoke to colleague who is Native American the other day and we had a conversation about who to connect with and who would be interested in contributing to this issue. And she told me that a lot of native people have been told that the way in which native
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Lee: Elona, please introduce yourself to the Unbound audience and tell us a little bit about the work you are doing. Elona: Well, my name is Elona Street-Stewart. Delaware Nanticoke is my tribe, and I am the Synod Executive of the Synod of Lakes and Prairies here
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“Singing in a strange land” was the sermon title for our World Communion Service on October 6, 2019. Taking from the story in Psalm 137:1-9, Rev. James Roghair preached about the pain of the Israelites as they were taunted by the Babylonians to sing their songs and asked them to
MoreLee: Doreen please introduce yourself and tell us about yourself and what kind of work you’re doing, just so we can get to know you a little bit. Doreen: Uvafa Nutaaq, Utqiabvigmiu. Aapaga Samuel Simmonds, aakaga Martha Afupqana Simmonds, suli Hester Tugli Simmonds. Translation: My name is Nutaaq,
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Scrawled on a page of my Choctaw Hymn book is the Choctaw version of Matthew 7:7, “Hvsh asilhhakma, hvch ima he; hvsh hoyokmvt, hvsh ahayucha he; hvsh soko hakma, hvchin tiwa he oke.” Ask, and it will be given you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will
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