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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…
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Awfully Good
My eight-year-old granddaughter came home from school and told a story using the phrase “awfully good.” Eyes rolled when I asked what do you mean by “awfully” good? We talk from time to time about words she picks up from school. You can imagine the interest she has for such talks, thus the eye roll. Awe has come…
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Just Beyond Bull
How we interpret some words matters to the when or where they are spoken. So it is with bullshit. I picked up bullshit just as I left childhood behind. A gentleman Okie, Wallace, down the road from us had a fairly colorful vocabulary. A vocabulary that my daddy would never use, but understood well. The two of them worked,…
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Named and Naming
With university student pliability they rolled out of the van. They’d come for a week of conversation with valley ranchers, spiritual guides, farmers, and Tribal politicians. Our work today was to talk about the valley’s history, politics, religion, spirit, hurt, joy and their landscape intersections. The morning was cool but not cold. Just after sunrise. We met at the…
Chewing the Cud 