"For generations, the Bible has been employed by settler colonial societies as a weapon to dispossess Indigenous and racialized peoples of their lands, cultures, and spiritualties. Given this devastating legacy, many of these people want nothing to do with it. But is it possible for the exploited and their allies to reclaim the Bible from the dominant powers? Can it serve as an instrument for justice in the cause of the oppressed, and even a nonviolent weapon toward decolonization?"
Explore these questions and more in our Lenten book study led by Jim Berger. The group meets over Zoom on Wednesday evenings to study, "Unsettling the Word: Biblical Experiments in Decolonization." The book has many chapters written by Canadian Indigenous Christians and is edited by Steve Heinrichs, the Director of Indigenous-Settler Relations for the Mennonite Church Canada.