“Land Liberation: Organizing Toward Racial Repair. Weaving wisdom among Pacific Northwest faith communities seeking to participate in racial repair and be reborn as the church. ”
This project seeks to share and learn faithful practices and process for white, land owning Christian institutions in the Pacific Northwest of North America to reckon with our racist history and legacy, engage in consensual and humble relationship building with impacted communities, particularly indigenous, and, following the lead of these communities, take meaningful reparative actions. Through land visits and interviews with indigenous leaders and church leaders engaged in this work, and publications, this project will integrate shared learnings into the processes and practices of organizing toward racial repair that we have developed here in Oregon, resulting in a network of faith communities engaging in racial repair, more potent practices and processes of racial repair locally that interrupt colonizing ways of being perpetrated by the church and honor the sacred dignity of impacted communities, and an interactive online curriculum to support faith communities seeking to engage in racial repair across North America and beyond. Through truth telling, relationship and reparative action we discover our vocation as followers of Jesus and wounded healers, once again. We may lose (ownership of) the land, but we gain our lives.