October 2022

There are many ways for Indigenous peoples to disappear.

Through various proclamations, treaties, and removals, we disappeared from the land and into towns and Indian Country and finally reservations. We disappeared in fiction and film, becoming two-dimensional characters, populating shows from the Lone Ranger to the X Files, who either threaten white settlement or, like Tonto, exist only to help the white man. We

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Abundant Life: A Kin-dom Ethic of Flourishing

by Amanda Udis-Kessler, May 29, 2021; written for the online LGBTQ+ Christian journal Whosoever; updated September 28, 2022 I believe God is that essence in us that reaches out to another, committed to their well-being, their enlightenment, their moral, emotional, relational, and spiritual growth. (Phillip Gulley, Unlearning God, 2018, pp. 193-194) This essay introduces what

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The idea of going through the day with little to no consideration of one’s skin color remains foreign to non-White people

Silence serves White privilege and threatens non-White survival. I will later argue that White privilege benefits White people. But the idea of going through the day with little to no consideration of one’s skin color remains foreign to non-White people. Regarding one’s self outside racial identifiers is a privilege the majority of White people enjoy.

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