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Author Archives: Mark MacDonald and Alan Roxburgh

Conversations, Issue 10, Place

An Indigenous Theology of Place and Land

Mark MacDonald and Alan Roxburgh Winter 2018

Mark MacDonald is the National Indigenous Anglican Bishop for Canada. This conversation with Alan Roxburgh contrasts the indigenous understanding of the moral and spiritual significance of land with the emphasis on contract, ownership and resource in western culture. For indigenous people 'land' describes something more akin to ‘ecosystem’, all the relationships which create and sustain life in a place. The land is holy, loved by God...

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Conversations, Issue 10, Place

Indigenous Theology: There is no Healing Apart from the Land

Mark MacDonald and Alan Roxburgh Winter 2018

Mark Macdonald explains that land is essential for healing, and also for the identity and resistance of indigenous people under the onslaught of western culture. For indigenous people the land is not inert. The Spirit infuses the land, there is personality, locality and unique relationship. Alan Roxburgh and Mark MacDonald go on the wrestle with the question of response. Christians must articulate their own ancient stories of land and people, but the time is short.

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Conversations, Issue 10, Place

Indigenous theology and the urban landscape

Mark MacDonald and Alan Roxburgh Winter 2018

In a fifth clip from this conversation Alan Roxburgh puts a challenge to Bishop Mark MacDoanld that concerns for land are not relevant for urban life, but are a mere expression of nostalgia. Mark counters with examples from Indigenous groups who have shown an appreciation for the gifts of urban life, or who choose to live in a way which is fiercely environmental.

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