Earth and Breath

Sarah Augustine, our Just Peace Climate Justice speaker, discusses the uses and failures of Capitalism and calls us to engage in an Indigenous cosmology that prioritizes Community Wellbeing over individuals and profit. She deftly contrasts a world view that demands continued growth and increasing consumption against the basic reality that we exist in a closed system of mutual dependence. Sarah speaks clearly about the ways we are willing to sacrifice human life, particularly Indigenous lives,  in order to continue our extraction-based, consumerist lives without any real change.
Sermon begins at minute marker 8:41
2 Corinthians 4:7–12; Luke 7:18–23

Resources

• Sarah Augustine is the Executive Director of Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery and a cofounder of Suriname Indigenous Health Fund  
• For more information about the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) explore the National Indian Child Welfare Association (NICWA) (one of our Just Peace Partners) website.
• Photo by Goshen College photographers
• Hymn: The Garden Needs Our Tending Now Words: Mary Louise Bringle ©2002 GIA Publications, Inc., Music: French traditional, 16th c.; acc. Andrew Donaldson (Canada), 2010 Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from One License with license #A-726929. All rights reserved.