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Stephanie Perdew
Stephanie Perdew (Cherokee Nation) is director of the Damascus Project, the theological education ministry of the Wisconsin and Minnesota Conferences of the United Church of Christ, and affiliate professor of Christian history at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary.
The rise and fall of children’s Sunday school
Faith formation isn’t dead. It’s happening outside the classroom.
The shelter of fabric
I gravitate toward Jesus’ instructions to provide food. I tend to gloss over the verses about clothing.
A farewell to snow
Louise Erdrich’s Future Home of the Living God reminds me how much we have to mourn as we enter a climate dystopia.
We are not living in a postcolonial world
Many church folk use the word decolonization while ignoring its only goal: returning Indigenous lands to Indigenous hands.
I still have a voice
After the election, I was worried about people being silenced. So I joined a choir.
Diane Glancy’s search for home
Glancy’s spirit is shaped as much by her exile from her tribe as by her ties to it.
On Native land
Land acknowledgments can do a lot of good—if they’re rooted in solid process and relationships.
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