Truth & Healing Movement
The ELCA’s Truth & Healing Movement is an opportunity for this church to increase our understanding of our colonizing impacts on Indigenous people in the past and present. Over the next several months, there will be opportunities to learn, raise awareness and engage in other ways to impact hearts and lives across this church. We believe that the truth, and our knowing and embracing it, is the first step toward healing for all of us.
Visit the Truth and Healing Movement page to learn more, get involved and share the Truth and Healing movement with others. Follow our ELCA and Living Lutheran social media channels for more stories and updates.
Wanda Frenchman, an ELCA vicar and member of the Oglala Latoka and Lenape tribes, speaks about her experiences with organized religion and her pathway to helping other Indigenous people navigate through the church life.
President Joe Biden Apologizes for the sin of the United State’s long history of traumatic and deadly boarding school policy, a first for any president.
Wearing Orange for the National Day of Remembrance helps us remember the generations of children taken from their families and the long path towards healing.
The annual Vine Deloria Jr., symposium is held every November at the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago. This year’s focus is on Deloria’s book Custer Died for Your Sins. All events will be accessible online.
Wanda Frenchman reflects on the influence her mother has had in her life and her faith.
Act now to urge the House to move forward with the Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies in the United States Act.
Land acknowledgement from the sixteenth Churchwide Assembly of the ELCA in Ohio
“We are gathered at this assembly on the original and ancestral homelands of the Shawnee, Miami, and Kaskaskia peoples. We give thanks for their presence here since time immemorial. We also wish to recognize and honor all our Indigenous siblings who have and continue to call this land their home. Let us remember the Indigenous peoples and tribal nations who were the first to love, pray, grow, celebrate, cry, drum, dance and sing upon these lands.”
—The Rev. Elizabeth A. Eaton, Presiding Bishop
