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Segregation In The Northwest
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…
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Three Events Five Days
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…
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What Is In A Name?
January 7, 2014 Blue Eagle asked me to consider “What’s in a Name.” It wasn’t so much a specific invitation as it was a question to anyone following the Facebook page Landscape Mending: Restoring Harmony, Terminating the Doctrine of Discovery. The crux of Blue Eagle’s question is, what language or terms do we or should we use when talking about…
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Downtown Cross-Street
December 25, 2013 The door banged open and Arnie blew in with the Santa Ana’s (that’s wind for the non-southern California folk). “I just got off that L.A. freeway without getting killed or caught,” he said. We knew what he meant. Every one of us had spent time on California freeways to get to this…
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A Moment Prior to Solstice
December 19, 2013 This morning, two days before the longest night, I walked the creek. I came to the place where the creek widens into a large pond. A Great Blue Heron stood on ice protruding into the pond. I covered a frost covered boulder with my coat and sat. She paid little heed as…
Chewing the Cud 