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Remembering the Feast of Enmegahbowh, First Native American Episcopal Priest

 
 

Lessons appointed for use on the Feast of Enmagahbowh
Enmegahbowh (ca. 1807 – June 12, 1902; from Enami’egaabaw, meaning “He that prays [for his people while] standing”; also known as John Johnson) was the first Native American to be ordained a priest in the Episcopal Church in the United States of America.
Enmegahbowh was an Odawa from Canada who converted to Christianity from Midewiwin. In 1851, James Lloyd Breck began [...]

Vocabulary for a New World: Parecon

Participatory economics, often abbreviated parecon, is a proposed economic system that uses participatory decision making as an economic mechanism to guide the production, consumption and allocation of resources in a given society. Proposed as an alternative to contemporary capitalistmarket economies and also an alternative to centrally planned socialism or coordinatorism, it is described as “an anarchistic economic vision”,[1] and it could be considered a form of socialism as under parecon, the means of production [...]

My Recent Posts at Sojourners God’s Politics Blog

 
 

Breaking Out of the Socially Contructed Box
by Eliacín Rosario-Cruz 05-13-2009

“What do you mean by ‘just one’? I’m not choosing just one!” I told my wife on the phone. She had told me that according to the educational department of our city, in order to register our daughter in an…
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Join us at Pentecost Seattle - May 16, 2009

Pentecost Seattle: Faith and Justice for the 21st Century
I invite you to a groundbreaking event taking place in Seattle. Coming together across denominations and theological differences, Seattle’s Christians - Evangelical, Emerging Church, Mainline and Catholic - will meet to converse in an open and hopeful way about the most urgent and changing needs of Seattle’s [...]

Native American Communities and Insights into Oppression

Kuddos to TheOoze.Tv
for their latest video dealing with questions of power, oppression and Christian complicity. I’m glad to see the conversation go beyond sugar-coated issues of spirituality and ecclesial gymnastics. 
 

 
Andrea describes how native groups and people of color used to organize themselves around common areas of oppression, but that this became an unhealthy way to [...]

Sawubona: We see You - Video

 
Youth worker and community leader Orland Bishop explains the meaning of the Zulu greeting Sawubona (”We see you”) as an invitation to a deep witnessing and presence. This greeting forms an agreement to affirm and investigate the mutual potential and obligation that is present in a given moment. At its deepest level, Orland explains, this [...]

Re-Membering Emergent Village: First Thoughts

(This is not a step by step retelling of the EV DC 09 weekend, but a brief reflection a week after the event. There will be more posts following this one. Photos thanks to Tim Snyder)

As I mentioned before, on April 24-26 I joined 24 sisters and brothers in a process that I refer as [...]

Video - Ubuntu… compassion brought into colorful practice

Via The Global Oneness Project 

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Colorblind but not colorless.

Prepare to be confronted.
 

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Emergent Village 2.0 - Whatcha think? No, seriously what do you think?

 

The Future of Emergent Village - from the Emergent Village blog 
Last summer, the Emergent Village board put out a survey to see what Emergent felt itself becoming. The overwhelming result of that survey was that people wanted this network of generative friendships to continue. This continuation (and even broadening) of the friendship is taking multiple [...]

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