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.
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.
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.
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…
Reflections from the Book of Ecclesiastes Tony Deik The founding of the State of Israel is remembered by the indigenous people of Palestine as the Nakba (catastrophe). To establish the Jewish state, the Zionists had to ethnically cleanse Palestine from … Continued
Join the Stott-Bediako Forum this year! We are launching the Stott-Bediako Forum with online sessions on December 8th-10th. We have programmed several sessions that allow you to engage with presentations, participate in Q&A’s, and dive deeper in dialogue with one another. … Continued
NEW: Podcasts by INFEMIT COVID-19 Series 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 first episode, we talk to Las Newman, who … Continued
Invitation to read the Chapter: Voices from the Global Evangelical Community, in The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump (Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2020), ed. Ronald Sider. In 2017, just before the inauguration of Donald Trump, INFEMIT published: A Call for Biblical … Continued
A group of Two Thirds World theologians discerned a need for discussions that were framed and organized from Global South perspectives, which led to the formation of INFEMIT…
On Peace Building and Conflict Transformation from a lens of Post-Colonialism and Indigenous Christianity To our global community, all who journey with us in the pursuit of Mission as Transformation: In June of this year, young and senior scholars, men … Continued