Chewing the Cud

April 15, 2014 When the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) began construction on the American Tepee Christian Mission in 1920 there is little chance they had a clue what they were getting themselves into. They had no idea of their Christian Doctrine of Discovery roots, but claimed the rightness of their manifest mindset. So with…

March 31, 2014 As March closes out, I am thinking about the days leading into March. We’d had a fair amount of snow. It was nothing like the snow of our neighbors across the American landscape, but for the farm, plenty enough. Low temperatures and snow come hand in hand and like the snow, it…

March 11, 2014 Folk often wonder how the Christian Doctrine of Discovery (CDOD) is active in our world today.  In our era, recognizing the CDOD and the racist results are not always easily observable.  Since the civil rights era of the 1960’s, racist policies have moved below the surface.  Segregated lunch counters—separating white folk from…

February 3, 2014 I’m on to my second of three gatherings in five days.  One is grounded in the wellbeing of the landscape.  Another is engaged in mending creation.  And the last one seeks to understand hurting creation. Yesterday I enter the space of Sacred Hoop, a congregational ministry, as folk blessed their place of…