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muccamukkSomeone linked to this video last night, which is nerdy and kind of awesome, and admittedly is "an anachronistic daydream asking the question, 'If pop producer Timbaland had sought to build consensus around declaring independence, what might he have produced?'"
It's nerdy and awesome in a number of ways, not the least of which is the fiddle solo.
Tonight, I went to a dinner at my church, which was followed by a talk about the history of the United Church of Canada (basically starting with Luther an moving to present day). It was a pretty fast summary, to be fair, but it still made almost no mention of First Nations people (when it did, it was about how the UCC now campaigns for Aboriginal rights).
After, in private, I told my minister that I thought he'd somewhat erased First Nations and Inuit peoples. He said that it was a theological history, which it was, but it was a history of what he said was a social justice-orientated church in North America. What we are is formed and informed by the land and people that were here when our ancestors arrived. This church would not be the same without the First Nations and Inuit peoples, and that gets left out.
And, you know, the bit where he skated right by the residential school issue, without so much as a mention. I'm always in favour of owning up to that one.
And this is where it ties into the otherwise awesome video linked above: my minister referred to the church on new ground. The first line of the song is, "Halfway across the globe, and we're standing on new ground."
But this isn't new ground, is it?
New to Europeans, certainly (discounting the Vikings), but that never seems to be the implication.
It's nerdy and awesome in a number of ways, not the least of which is the fiddle solo.
Tonight, I went to a dinner at my church, which was followed by a talk about the history of the United Church of Canada (basically starting with Luther an moving to present day). It was a pretty fast summary, to be fair, but it still made almost no mention of First Nations people (when it did, it was about how the UCC now campaigns for Aboriginal rights).
After, in private, I told my minister that I thought he'd somewhat erased First Nations and Inuit peoples. He said that it was a theological history, which it was, but it was a history of what he said was a social justice-orientated church in North America. What we are is formed and informed by the land and people that were here when our ancestors arrived. This church would not be the same without the First Nations and Inuit peoples, and that gets left out.
And, you know, the bit where he skated right by the residential school issue, without so much as a mention. I'm always in favour of owning up to that one.
And this is where it ties into the otherwise awesome video linked above: my minister referred to the church on new ground. The first line of the song is, "Halfway across the globe, and we're standing on new ground."
But this isn't new ground, is it?
New to Europeans, certainly (discounting the Vikings), but that never seems to be the implication.
