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AW Book Forum – Concluding response by Sarah Augustine

By Sarah Augustine | Posted on May 30, 2022

Read here the AW Book Forum Presentation on The Land Is Not Empty: Following Jesus in Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery by Sarah Augustine Concluding response by Sarah Augustine My journey struggling for liberation with Indigenous Peoples began in the rainforest of Suriname. In this context, I struggled alongside multiple tribes facing removal, disease, and death. Their […]

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AW Book Forum – Response to Sarah Augustine by Randy S. Woodley

By Randy S. Woodley | Posted on May 23, 2022

Read here the AW Book Forum Presentation on The Land Is Not Empty: Following Jesus in Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery by Sarah Augustine Indigenous Old Testaments and Story – Response to Sarah Augustine by Randy S. Woodley I begin responding to Sarah’s words at the end of chapter six, Reimagining Our Theology.  The great unknown unfolds […]

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AW Book Forum – Response to Sarah Augustine by Tina Stoltzfus Schlabach

By Tina Stoltzfus Schlabach | Posted on May 16, 2022

Read here the AW Book Forum Presentation on The Land Is Not Empty: Following Jesus in Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery by Sarah Augustine Response to Sarah Augustine by Tina Stoltzfus Schlabach I write this response to Sarah Augustine’s powerful book not as a scholar.  I write as a pastor and as an accompanier of people – […]

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AW Book Forum – Response to Sarah Augustine by T.J. Smith

By TJ Smith | Posted on May 9, 2022

Read here the AW Book Forum Presentation on The Land Is Not Empty: Following Jesus in Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery by Sarah Augustine Response to Sarah Augustine by T.J. Smith As a Lakota, Winnebago, Cherokee man, being one who the shame of culture, being Indian, was prevalent in our family, this book struck home. I was […]

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AW Book Forum – Response to Sarah Augustine by Wes Howard-Brook

By Wes Howard-Brook | Posted on May 3, 2022

Read here the AW Book Forum Presentation on The Land Is Not Empty: Following Jesus in Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery by Sarah Augustine Response to Sarah Augustine by Wes Howard-Brook Sarah Augustine is a prophet. Like those of ancient Israel, she interweaves in her life and writing a passionate love of God, a passionate […]

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AW Book Forum Presentation – The Land Is Not Empty: Following Jesus in Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery by Sarah Augustine

By Luis Tapia | Posted on May 2, 2022

In our second Anabaptist Witness Book Forum, we want to share with you four responses to Sarah Augustine’s book The Land Is Not Empty: Following Jesus in Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery. In this work, Augustine unpacks the harm of the Doctrine of Discovery—a set of laws rooted in the fifteenth century that gave Christian […]

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Place and the Construction of Christian Service – Response to AW Book Forum by Alain Epp Weaver

By Alain Epp Weaver | Posted on February 28, 2022

Read the AW Book Forum presentation – Service and the Ministry of Reconciliation by Alain Epp Weaver here. Place and the Construction of Christian Service Response to AW Book Forum by Alain Epp Weaver* Where does Christian service unfold? What places shape understandings of Christian service? How have those landscapes of Christian service been formed […]

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AW Book Forum – Response to Epp Weaver by Anicka Fast

By Anicka Fast | Posted on February 21, 2022

Read the AW Book Forum presentation – Service and the Ministry of Reconciliation by Alain Epp Weaver here. Response to Epp Weaver by Anicka Fast* “Making room for the vitality of world Christianity” within MCC A review of Alain Epp Weaver, Service and the Ministry of Reconciliation: A Missiological History of Mennonite Central Committee (North […]

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AW Book Forum – Response to Epp Weaver by Andrés Pacheco Lozano

By Andrés Pacheco Lozano | Posted on February 14, 2022

Read the AW Book Forum presentation – Service and the Ministry of Reconciliation by Alain Epp Weaver here. Response to Epp Weaver by Andrés Pacheco Lozano* “Así que somos embajadores[as] de Cristo” (2 Cor. 5:20, NVI). Some years ago, I had the opportunity to read and discuss this text on the Ministry of Reconciliation (2 […]

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AW Book Forum – Response to Epp Weaver by Regina Shands Stoltzfus

By Regina Shands Stoltzfus | Posted on February 7, 2022

Read the AW Book Forum presentation – Service and the Ministry of Reconciliation by Alain Epp Weaver here. Response to Epp Weaver by Regina Shands Stoltzfus* The questions Alain Epp-Weaver asks regarding the practice of Christian service that has “embodies colonialism’s racialized value hierarchies” have been a critical concern and foundation for presence and work […]

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