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The Doctrine of Discovery: A Legacy of Disgrace
Ken Kraybill has worked in the health, behavioral health, and homelessness/housing arena for the past 30+ years and is a member of Seattle Mennonite Church. I continue to be haunted and inspired by a...
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Uncovering the Settler Within
Jonathan Neufeld is on the pastoral team of Seattle Mennonite Church, working with the community to companion people experiencing homelessness. “On July 1, 1873, a seemingly insignificant but alarming...
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Remembering the Crosses of Conquest
Katerina Friesen is a student in theology and peace studies, with a focus on climate change and indigenous justice, at Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary in Elkhart, IN Black liberation...
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Mexican Village Exemplifies Indigenous Struggle to Protect Land from Mining
Meg Lumsdaine is currently serving as Pastor for Evergreen Mennonite Church in Kirkland, Washington In the soft glow of porchlight on a balmy subtropical night, our family stood among a crowd of...
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Dear God, My Ancestors Started a War!?
Sid Burkey serves as elder for his local church, Bellwood Mennonite, in Milford, Nebraska, and as Assistant Moderator for Central Plains Mennonite Conference. He finds joy building hope and creating...
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Practical Suggestions for Doing Justice: Do What You Love to Do!
Photo Credit: Silas Crews, Mennonite Central Committee, 2013 John Stoesz is executive director of Camp Mennoscah, a position he started in June, 2014. Previously he served as executive director of...
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Looking back to colonization, and forward to a Pilgrimage of Justice and Peace
Rev. Iris Speckmann represented the Dutch Mennonite Conference at the Mennonite World Conference’s Assembly in July 2015 and at the World Council of Churches Assembly in November 2013. She graduated...
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Trail of Death: A Pilgrimage of Remembrance, Lament and Transformation, Part I
Joshua Kinder is a middle school mathematics teacher at a public school and a graduate of Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary. He is a member of the Prairie Wolf Collective, a co-housing and...
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Trail of Death, Part II
Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary (AMBS) offered a course called “Trail of Death: A Pilgrimage of Remembrance, Lament, and Transformation” from June 22nd–June 29th, 2015. Participants journeyed...
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Trail of Death, Part III
Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary (AMBS) offered a course called “Trail of Death: A Pilgrimage of Remembrance, Lament, and Transformation” from June 22nd–June 29th, 2015. Participants journeyed...
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Junipero Serra’s Canonization and Continuing Colonization
Sarah Augustine is an assistant professor of sociology at Heritage University. She is also the co-founder of Suriname Indigenous Health Fund. Sarah led a team of Indigenous and church leaders to draft...
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Do Justice: A Story of First Peoples and Honey Bees
Anita Amstutz (center) with Sarah Augustine (left) and Sheri Hostetler (right). Anita Amstutz is an ordained Mennonite pastor and beekeeper, currently working on a grant funded writing project about...
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Canonization and Protest
Joanna Shenk lives in the vibrant Mission District of San Francisco, where she serves as Associate Pastor of First Mennonite Church of San Francisco. She is co-producer of the Iconocast podcast and...
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The Jewish Jesus and the Doctrine of Discovery
J. Denny Weaver is Professor Emeritus of Religion, Bluffton (Ohio) University. Among his several books are The Nonviolent Atonement, 2nd revised and expanded edition (Eerdmans, 2011) and The...
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Article in Mennonite World Review
An article on the Doctrine of Discovery and our Working Group just appeared in the Mennonite World Review. You can check it out here.
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Mennonites and the Conestoga Massacre of 1763
Tim lives with his wife Charletta in the Ventura River watershed on the traditional lands of the Chumash people. He works with Carnival de Resistance <http://carnivalderesistance.com> and is a...
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Goshen and EMU Students Urge Divestment
Click here to read about a divestment campaign sponsored by student activists from Goshen College and Eastern Mennonite University. The students are urging the Mennonite Education Agency to divest from...
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Earth Day Defenders
This story expresses the outcome of the Doctrine of Discovery, where the most vulnerable, often Indigenous Peoples, are victimized by violence as they defend their communities. Because this story...
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Reflection from Study Guide
We are planning to release our study guide for the Doctrine of Discovery movie sometime in June. In the meantime, here is a foretaste of things to come… a reflection by Randy Woodley on three parables...
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Rediscovering the Root of my Fear
Doctrine of Discovery Coalition member Erica Littlewolf recently published this post on violence against Indigenous women at Mennonite Church USA’s Women in Leadership blog.
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