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Becoming Disturbed
You can feel it without seeing it. The blank stare—over the phone. This was one of them. I’d mentioned the Doctrine of Discovery with that tone of “of course you—as a leader within the Church—know something about this.” I didn’t pick up on it at first and continued by saying the annual Winter Talk emphasizes accountability to the Indigenous…
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All of Day
Butterflies are flying. I have set the irrigation lines and I’m now heading to turn on the irrigation pump. I notice small white and orange butterflies, of to my left, as I drive the four-wheeler along the eastern edge of the hayfield. I’m hurried and intend to kept driving. Sometimes nature gets the better of reason and I stop…
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Plum Moon
The only word for this year’s plum moon season is, abundant. It began in the late of winter. The weather warmed and the fruit trees, all of them, bloomed at once. Normally, the apricots will bloom first. Followed by plumbs and then by the cherries. Last would come the peach blossoms. This year, within three days, they all bloomed. There is little…
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Church in Conflict: Disciples Struggle with Indigenous
The following was written as a Position Paper to the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) A hint of afternoon heat whispers behind the cool morning air. Late spring has a way of saying what was and what is. We sit beneath a tree at shade’s edge. Those who’ve heard heat sit deeper into shade while others who still…
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Grass Theology
Many of us have heard the phrase, “When the Christ in me meets the Christ in you.” A simple way of saying the cosmos exists in the lives of all humans. I find the phrase all the more interesting when I think of Indigenous. Indigenous calls us to know all creational life as relation. Or, perhaps better said, all…
Chewing the Cud 