Over the last several months nearly 1,000 unmarked children graves were discovered at former residential schools in British Columbia and Saskatchewan, Canada. This unspeakable news is not lost on US Indigenous parents whose children were also forced to attend Boarding Schools.
There is no acceptable response to the appalling reality that Canadian Residential Schools and US Boarding Schools interred hundreds of Indigenous children in unmarked graves. Nor to the “why” Christian institutions developed theologies supporting political mandates of separating Indigenous children from their parents. In the wake of such horrendous news, Christian congregations must begin to critically question their colonial-settler history of place and the theology on which it is predicated: Who are the ancestral occupiers of the land ? How was the land obtained on which the building stands? How does Christian theology support Indigenous removal? How was God experienced before Christianity? This surely is not easy work. However, not do so is to mire our children in the muck of false goodness.
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