What lesson did you learn from today,” I asked my nine year old daughter. I had brought her to the Clergy Call at Standing Rock because my partner and I (two middle-aged, white lesbian Christians) are trying to raise her (a white, Christian girl) to know both her power and agency AND her responsibility to work for justice. We don’t know exactly how to teach these lessons—since we are still trying to learn them ourselves. But we hope that acting for justice and sharing those experiences might be one part of that.
“I learned that Christians did and still do some terrible things to indigenous people and we have to help change that.”
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“I learned that Christians did and still do some terrible things to indigenous people and we have to help change that.”
Continue reading here: http://auburnseminary.org/standing-rock-collective-confession-and-repentance-was-our-first-action/
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