Digging in to this one today (thx Krista Betz).
Unraveling Religious Leadership: Power, Authority, and Decoloniality
by Kristina Lizardy-Hajbi
I love the opening quotes:
Martin Luther King Jr.
“We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.”
And, Albert Memmi, author of The Colonizer and the Colonized:
“We have seen that colonization materially kills the colonized. It must be added that colonization kills [us] spiritually. Colonization distorts relationships, destroys or petrifies institutions, and corrupts [humans], both colonizers and colonized.”
And I’m sparking on the contents:
- history that points to the lasting effects of colonialism, capitalism, slavery
- differences between what individuals can do and what institutions can do
And then asking the most basic of questions — What could religious leadership also be? In the immediate of now, and, in the slow moving evolution of what is next?
Working with a group of pastors / religious leadership later this month who will be asking such questions together.
Such deep and important questions
Thx for posting and posing it in this thoughtful space
Thx Janice. I’m glad you see this in these questions — and that you ask them yourself.