Reconcili-action!
When I decided to formally study history a few years ago, it was partly with the aim of discovering the mechanics of colonization, from its inception to where I sit now, part of the result of a foiled attempt at the assimilation of Indigenous people. My studies were successful, and I can trace the lineage of colonization worldwide in a number of ways. My main goal, however, was not that discovery but to help find solutions to problems. Studying history was a place to begin, so I could see the boundaries keeping us apart as God’s people and find ways to unravel the tangles in these places, through education and truth-telling, bringing us together in a good way. I wanted to find out how we as a church community could be different and evolve our truth and reconciliation landscape into one of “reconcili-action.”
