Rev. Margaret Ernst looks at Jesus’ feeding of the 5000 through the lens of mutual aid, and in a cautionary tale about supremacy in the guise of hospitality, unpacks Susan Raffo’s essay about how white, Christian women from the North moved on from abolition work to become staffers of Indian boarding schools - becoming arbiters of cultural genocide.

For Susan’s essay, “the lineages healers have to contend with.... working with ancestors of purpose” see: https://www.susanraffo.com/blog/the-lineages-healers-have-to-contend-with-working-with-ancestors-of-purpose

To take action, see resources for churches from the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition: https://boardingschoolhealing.org/healing/for-churches/

Transcript available here: https://surj.org/our-work/surj-faith/twir/