Healing haunted histories: Exploring a discipleship of decolonization
Sunday, December 5
2 pm PT/4 pm CT/5 pm ET
Join via Zoom; Meeting ID: 840 2811 0560 (no advance registration necessary)
Join CTA Sacramento for this event! Elaine Enns and Ched Myers will present their new book, Healing Haunted Histories: A Settler Discipleship of Decolonization (Cascade, 2021), recently reviewed here. It tackles the oldest and deepest injustices on the North American continent, asking: how are our histories and landscapes, communities and spirits, haunted by past and continuing indigenous dispossession? What does it mean to embrace a personal and political, and inward and outward, journey of decolonization? We will touch upon what has formed (and deformed) us as settlers; our forebears’ immigrant travails and trauma; and churchly traditions of both complicity and conscience. And we’ll explore how settlers can transform our lifeways and structures by practicing restorative solidarity and reparation with indigenous Californians.
Learn more about the book here.
Elaine Enns, DMin, a Canadian Mennonite, is an educator, writer, facilitator and trainer in conflict transformation. She focuses on how restorative justice applies to historical violations, including issues of intergenerational trauma and healing.
Ched Myers, an ecumenical activist theologian, is a popular educator, writer, teacher and organizer, committed to animating and nurturing church renewal and radical discipleship, and supporting faith-based movements for peace and justice.
