Writing
Becoming Kin: An Indigenous call to unforgetting the past and reimagining our future. Forward by Nick Estes. Now available.
Blogs:
Books to Make You Think. The blog about books, formerly known as aambe.
Highly Pertinent Digressions. This substack is where my friend Neil Ellis Orts and I take turns writing essays that have a relationship to the previous essay but embrace the digressions that happen. Because apparently the journey matters.
Print and online:
Broadview
- August 2022 Was Jesus a Pharisee?
Indiginews
Midnight Sun
- April 2022 The Land with Whom – on religious nationalisms, kinship versus citizenship, and Land Back as an alternative to the violence of colonial borders.
- February 2022 To Be Good Kin – an excerpt from Becoming Kin with a brief reflection
Rampant Magazine
- March 2022 Solidarity with Ukraine: an Indigenous view
- April 2021 A Broadened Sense of Abolition
- April 2021 Ambe: A Year of Indigenous Reading
Sojourners Magazine:
- September 2022 Can Christianity and Indigenous Worldviews Ever Be Reconciled? – selections from Becoming Kin.
- February 2022 Why was Noah silent at the end of the world?
- December 2021 Refusing to be comforted
- April 2020 Christians romanticize wandering yet rendered my people homeless
Religion News Service
Yellowhead Institute
Speaking
In person and virtual events:
Nothing scheduled that’s open to the public right now. If you want to book something just email rob@transatlanticagency.com to get that set up.
Podcast and radio interviews:
You can read this Proust-style questionaire for the Inspirators.
September 14, 2023 Movement Memos with Kelly Hayes. We Can Survive Together by Becoming Kin.
August 6, 2023 All Things Considered with Rachel Martin. This writer shares the right (and wrong) ways to honor Indigenous spirituality
June 26, 2023 The Protaganistas with Kat Arnas. On Becoming Kin
February 3, 2023. Faith in a Fresh Vibe with Rohadi. On Becoming Kin. Part 1 and Part 2, Can the Church Decolonize?
December 7, 2022 Interview with B. Lorraine Smith. What Kind of World Do We Want?
November 18, 2022 The Deep Dive: A Culture and Insights Podcast. Episode 130.
November 13, 2022 Tapestry on CBC Radio. When remembering isn’t enough.
October 10, 2022 NPR’s Jefferson Exchange
September 2022. The Living Room Podcast with Jo Luehmann.
September, 2022. Faith from the Margins is a podcast from St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Houston Texas.
August 7, 2022. Subaltern Speaks Podcast “is a podcast that explores the legacies of colonialism on the religion and spiritualities of colonized peoples, otherwise known as the “subaltern” in post-colonial studies.” This conversation is released in two parts, Part One and Part Two.
August 4, 2022 How to Heal Our Divides. Book Interview with Brian Allain on You Tube.
August 3, 2022 The Big Story podcast: What did the Pope’s apology mean? And what comes next?
May 24, 2022 New Leaf Theology Podcast: Becoming Kin
March 6, 2022 Silver Spire Church You can read the text of my remarks.