***Unfortunately, our invited speaker was not able to join us this morning. Instead, Toni Sveom facilitated a discussion around some of the themes she has picked up while reading “The Cost of Free Land” by Rebecca Clarren.***
Each Sunday in our prelude slides we declare in our Welcome Statement that we are “seeking reconciliation and wholeness,” and we post an Acknowledgment of Native Lands. We have invited Dr. Kelly Sherman-Conroy to our Adult Forum on November 26 to help us to explore and reflect on what these statements mean from her perspective as the ELCA’s first Native Woman Theologian with a Ph.D. As she states on her website, “My Lakota people have a saying {which means] ‘We are all related in this circle of life.’ I want to create Spirit-inspired relationships, that are inclusive and accountable to all, dynamic, and that literally breaths Spirit into our healing.” https://www.kellysconroy.com/ Come join the conversation.