HeyJaredSo That We and Our Children May Live
Sarah Augustine and Sheri Hostetler reflect on ecological justice, decolonization, faith, and where we find hope for our future.
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AI and the Earth: Ecological and Human Costs (opens the original)
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Hi, all. This is a sermon I (Sheri) preached recently, as part of our church’s sermon series called “Living with Courage and Clarity in the face of AI.” It’s based on Romans 8:19-23:For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the children of God; for the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and will obtain the freedom of the glory of the c
Walking Through Baldwin's Door (opens the original)
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I (Sheri) just read an extraordinary essay by James Baldwin about the prophetic role of the artist in society. Called “The Creative Process,” the essay was published in 1962 and later collected in The Price of the Ticket. Baldwin begins with the artist’s peculiar vocation, which he says is to cultivate a kind of aloneness most of us would prefer to avoid. He’s not talking about the pleasant solitude of enjoying “a rustic musing beside some silver lake,” but rather an existential aloneness in whi
Strange Bedfellows (opens the original)
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Sorry for the radio silence on this Substack. The Coalition to Dismantle the Doctrine of Discovery held its annual meeting the first week of August, and preparing for and then recovering from that meeting took some time. But we’re back!Recently, I (Sheri) read an essay by Gerry McGovern, published on Resilience.org, about the global rush for “critical minerals” — copper, lithium, nickel, rare earths — and how it is disproportio
The Humility that Undoes Empire (opens the original)
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The following reflection is by Sheri.There is a version of humility that dominant culture is comfortable with. It looks like modesty, like not bragging, like saying “oh, it was nothing” when someone compliments your work. It’s a personality trait, a nice-to-have.That is not the humility the Coalition means when we name it as a sacred value.The humility we’re talking about is structural and spiritual. It’s the opposite of the Doctrine of Discovery itself — that 500-year-old theological claim that
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