Interview on Reconciliation in Indigenous Communities
We interviewed Benita Simón Mendoza (Maya Kaqchikel) and Ismael Conchacala Gil (Wiwa) about the concepts and experiences, and steps toward reconciliation in their communities.
Songs and Elegies of the New World
Abdiel Espinoza offers a selection of poems, with the goal of bringing to light the individual and collective experience of those who, based on their experience of the Gospel and the Mission of God, build peace and are agents of transformation in their communities on the margins of society.
Interview with Seble Daniel
In this series, we interview Networking Team members of INFEMIT about the impacts and implications of COVID-19 on our understanding of mission and theology. In this episode, we talk to Seble Daniel, who has experienced COVID-19 from her home in Ethiopia. Seble particularly explores what COVID looks like for the vulnerable and the churches in her context.
Whiteness in Christianity and Decoloniality of the African Experience: Developing a Political Theology for ‘Shalom’ in Kenya
Historians have held that colonialism and Western missionary enterprise were two distinct and unrelated entries to pre-colonial Kenya. How then did Christianity for decades live side by side with colonialism? I content that Colonialism could not have been possible without Christianity. The impact of that unholy relationship is felt and sustained in contemporary forms of violence.
Imagining the Postcolonial Christian University
Universities are, at their core, projects of capitalist dominance and Euro-American thought. They, even those that seek to champion indigeneity, can be complicit in research models, knowledge production and curation, pedagogy, and education that can perpetuate colonialist tendencies.
Peacebuilding from Postcolonial and Indigenous Perspectives
Tony Deik summarizes and reflects on the points raised in the initial sessions of the Stott-Bediako Forum on Peace Building and Conflict Transformation from a lens of Postcolonialism and Indigenous Christianity.
Creation Care from the Kichwa Perspective
In this interview for the Stott-Bediako Forum, Julián Guamán and Peter Wigginton share stories from the Kichwa-Andean worldview that demonstrate co-existence between cultures. The Kichwa-Andean creation care narrative provides an example of how to work towards peace.
Pallay: Andean Weaving of Liturgy and Design
This project looks into the history and meaning of the liturgical year and highlights key symbols and elements that represent it. Simultaneously, it explores the Andean culture of Bolivia, in particular, their millenary tradition of weaving. It then juxtaposes these two studies and finds the places where similarities and differences can be drawn out, especially notions of time, seasons, festivities, traditions and art. These concepts are creatively translated into a contemporary graphic design medium with visual symbols that become systematic patterns, resembling those found in the textile art of these cultures.
Journey, Listening, and Prayer from indigenous voices
Following the paths of indigenous memory allows us to understand the living memories of indigenous peoples. The indigenous peoples of Abya Yala (Latin America) have a vast memory of celebration, resistance, lament and insurgency. They have co-inhabited with the Creator Community from an ethic of reciprocity, integrality and complementarity.
Weaving Threads of Reconciliation from Indigenous Memories
We appeal to a life in harmony, to the restoration and reconciliation of basic principles of native peoples, in order to speak of justice. I cannot be well if my brother is not well, and my brother represents the entire creation…