I am given to turning my nouns into verbs! Maybe you have heard me talk about this propensity to action – of creating what is happening out of what is. I am somewhat of a kinesthetic learner I discovered when studying about different ways of learning in seminary. I learn best by doing, by the experience of something. Occasionally this means that I learn the hard way, as the saying goes. It is an embodied way of being. I am in it with my whole self, not just my head or m

Our readings this morning, taken side by side, even as they were written 122 years apart, and the most recent sixty-five years ago, are a sobering testimony to the erasure of one people in favor of another. In her book, “As Long As Grass Grows – The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock,” Dina Gilio-Whitaker sheds new light on the concept of environmental justice, tying life to land and connecting culture and heritage to location, mak