The TRC Calls Churches to Action: Building Capacity for Restorative Solidarity
Bartimaeus Institute, Oct 14-16, 2016
St. Andrew’s College, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Join us to explore how the Canadian TRC Report impacts Indigenous/Settler relations, and enjoins Christian communities to build right relations. Participants from across North America will look at how to educate, advocate and organize around the Calls to Action to churches, including the challenges to “formally adopt and comply with the principles, norms, and standards of the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples as a framework for reconciliation” (48); and to “repudiate concepts used to justify European sovereignty over Indigenous lands and peoples, such as the Doctrine of Discovery and terra nullius” (49).
Indigenous and nonindigenous leaders will map the new geography for the work of fostering justice and reconciliation, and reflect on how a theology and practice of “restorative solidarity” can help churches rethink discipleship, service, spiritual formation, worship and activism.
Bartimaeus Cooperative Ministries will co-convene this gathering with the Office of the Treaty Commissioner, Saskatchewan; KAIROS: Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives; Office of the National Indigenous Anglican Bishop of Canada; Mennonite Central Committee Saskatchewan; Mennonite Church Canada Indigenous Relations; Mennonite Church Saskatchewan; Office of Reconciliation and Indigenous Justice, United Church of Canada; and St. Andrew’s College, Saskatoon.
Full registration: $150/ Students and Fixed Income: $75
This conference is limited to 100 participants, so register early!
For more information: inquiries@bcm-net.org or http://www.bcm-net.org/BI