Sacred Wonder

In this third and final episode in our series we explore the bible's teaching concerning heaven and hell, and how this differs from modern conceptions. We see how our understanding of heaven and hell determines our attitude towards the earth and our place within the community of creation.

In this second episode in our series we explore the bible's teaching on heaven and hell, and how this differs from modern conceptions. We will see how our  understanding of heaven and hell determines our attitude towards the  earth and our place within the community of creation.

In this new series we explore the bible's teaching on heaven and hell, and how this differs from modern conceptions. We will see how our understanding of heaven and hell determines our attitude towards the earth and our place within the community of creation.

In this final installment in our Creator & Creation series, we discover how Christ came to renew creation, and discuss what roles and responsibilities we have been given to restore the harmony and balance within the world around us.

In this episode, we discover one of the greatest mysteries of the teachings of the Bible: how Creator became creation in the act known as the incarnation. We see that just as the consequence of humanity's disobedience was cosmic, so too is salvation cosmic in scope and reach. This becomes the basis of our efforts to care for and restore the peace and harmony of the created world. 

In this episode we explore how the disobedience of our human ancestors broke relationship with Creator and creation, and how we continue to break this peace and harmony by objectifying and exploiting the world around us. 

In this episode we pick up where we left off in the previous episode and explore how humans are unique within the community of creation. We discover that this uniqueness is attributed to our relational distinction with Creator and the rest of creation, and is not based on a concept of separateness or superiority. 

This is the first episode in a new series on the Creator & Creation. In this episode we introduce topics that we'll be discussing over the next few weeks dealing with our relationship to the earth, and show how that we are all indigenous (from the earth). This characteristic of our nature has been forgotten by many in the western world, but has much to contribute to understanding our responsibility to the environment and the world around us. 

In this final episode in the series exploring historical barriers to the Christian faith, we seek to answer the question - What Then? How should Native people and Anglo people respond to the atrocities of the past and present, and what does this mean to those seeking to follow Christ? 

This episode continues our series of examining historical barriers to Native people considering the Christian faith anything other than a "white-man's religion". We explore and acknowledge the role faith played in the creation and propagation of the 19th century doctrine of Manifest Destiny, and how this doctrine lingers today in the American psyche. Then, we share the truth about the good news of God!

In this episode we identify some of the missteps taken by the church throughout history to create barriers to Native people embracing the good news of God. One of those missteps originated with the church of the 15th century and contributed to the age of colonization in which people indigenous to North and South America were considered less human than their European counterparts. This atrocity, committed in the name of Christ, has a lingering impact on the Native American and First Nation populations of the North American continent.  

The origins of error in the relationship between the Church and Empire date all the way back to the time of the Emperor Constantine (4th Century). In this episode we trace the teachings of Christ concerning the spiritual nature of His kingdom and the way these teachings have been misrepresented throughout history resulting in the atrocious Doctrine of Discovery, which justified the use of violence against the indigenous peoples of North and South America.  

The historic truth about the racial divide within the United States dates back to 1492. Until we come to grips with this history and the system it creates and defends, there will be no lasting efforts to heal the brokenness of the land. 

This episode seeks to interact with this question in a simple way, "Can one be a Christian and be true to one's Native roots at the same time"?