Dave

  • Gospel Nationalism

    Last week’s Center for Indigenous Ministries invitation to develop a Truth and Healing Council is a call to remember vocation and homeplace.  Done well, this work breaks the fetters of Indigenous and non-Indigenous historical trauma and moral injury.  Once free, we may… Continue reading

  • Residential & Boarding Schools

    Indigenous Month #1 A Statement from the Center for IndigenousMinistries (DOC) regarding Indigenous Residential / Boarding Schools of Canada and the United States Over the last several months nearly 1,000 unmarked children graves were discovered at former residential schools in… Continue reading

  • To Remember and Honor

    Tomorrow is Memorial Day.  As National Holidays go, you cannot argue against remembering those who died while serving in the United States Armed Services.  And we should not. However, if we are going to honor the dead due to military service, then for those… Continue reading

  • Redemptive Normal

    “I can’t wait to get back to normal.”  Earnestly said.  We’ve all said it in one way or another this last year.   Four of us stood in the pasture.  A late winter breeze caused each of us to raise our coat collar.  We’d gathered… Continue reading