A Place for Conversation

Attempting to teach an Indigenous pedagogy in the current Western seminary approach, content differences aside, is the proverbial attempt to fit a square peg in to a round hole. There are some things that Western educators can be made aware of to help with the fit, but it will never substitute ground-level Indigenous education via decolonized and Indigenized Indigenous mentors. 

The Stead Center for Ethics and Values seeks to be a place for conversation on relevant, current, critical justice issues. This site is a platform […]

The overturning of Roe is impacting reproductive health in the United States. What might not come immediately to mind is how digital technology is playing […]

The summer of 2020 was memorable for many reasons. My hope is that for those of us who are white Christians, we will remember that […]

The following announcement was released from Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in April 2022. Dr. Kate Ott has been named the next holder of the Jerre L. […]

Politics, and how to engage in it, is always in a state of flux and motion. Sometimes politics progresses and takes on a new evolution […]

South Dakota Governor and former cattle rancher Kristi Noem has a beef with her fellow GOP governors: they aren’t gritty enough.  In her 2021 address […]

Extreme weather in Texas for about a week in February saw snow in places where the existence of the white stuff had hitherto been only […]