The following message is shared on behalf of Vance Blackfox (Cherokee), Interim Senior Director, Ministries of Diverse Cultures and Communities. During September, we remember the survivors and descendants of U.S. Indian Boarding Schools. On Saturday, Sept. 30, we observe the National Day of Remembrance for Indian Boarding Schools. You can participate by
I’ve been experiencing a season of remembrance. It started when Perry family members gathered at my home on Mother’s Day. My sister-in-law Johanne showed up wearing what she wears every year on this occasion: colorful homemade necklaces–gifts created by her four children when they were young. Each time I see
Elizabeth A. Eaton, presiding bishop of the ELCA, has issued a pastoral letter on National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. “Eighty years ago, on a beautiful Sunday morning, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, was tragically transformed from an island paradise into a bloody battlefield,” the letter read, in part. “After the Japanese bombed