Six Mondays from Feb. 23 - March 30 | 7pm on ZoomHoly Listening:
Truth-Telling and the Work of Repair with Indigenous Communities
Meeting Schedule
Six Mondays at 7pm on Zoom
February 23 through March 30
The series will be available entirely online, with optional in-person gatherings:
Mondays Feb 23 and March 30·
6pm - Potluck Dinner
7pm - Hybrid Zoom/in-person session
Meets at St. Andrew’s Church in Yardley (located at 54 West Afton Avenue)
Free optional field trips to local events:
· Charter Day at Pennsbury Manor on Sunday, March 8 from 1-4pm
14th Annual Penn Powwow on Sunday March 22 from 11am to 5pm
Holy Listening is a Lenten series that invites the church into learning, truth-telling, and faithful listening as a practice of repentance and renewal.
Together, we will begin to learn about the Doctrine of Discovery, different eras of federal U.S. Indian policy, the history and relationship with Native Americans in our state of Pennsylvania, and the legacy of boarding schools and child removal, attending closely to the ways churches participated in and benefited from these systems.
How do these histories continue to shape Indigenous life today and what does the work of repair teaches us about responsibility, healing, and hope? In this season of Lent, we return to the promises of our Baptismal Covenant: to persevere in resisting evil, to seek and serve Christ in all persons, to strive for justice and peace among all people, and to respect the dignity of every human being, especially in our relationships with Native American communities today.
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Going Deeper
To accompany our learning, you are invited to read The Land Is Not Empty: Following Jesus in Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery by Sarah Augustine.
Partners:
The series features Sarah Augustine joined by other guest speakers and is offered by the Bucks County Episcopal Deanery of the Diocese of Pennsylvania in partnership with the Coalition to Dismantle the Doctrine of Discovery.
Sarah Augustine
Sarah Augustine, who is a Pueblo (Tewa) descendant, is cofounder and executive director of the Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery Coalition. She is also the cofounder of Suriname Indigenous Health Fund (SIHF), where she has worked in relationship with vulnerable Indigenous Peoples since 2005. She has represented the interests of Indigenous community partners to their own governments, the Inter-American development bank, the United Nations, the Organization of American States Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, and the World Health Organization, among others. She cohosts the Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery podcast with Sheri Hostetler and is the author of The Land Is Not Empty. She serves in a leadership role on multiple boards and commissions to enable vulnerable peoples in Washington State to speak for themselves in advocating for structural change. She and her husband Dan Peplow and their son live in the Yakima Valley of Washington.
