KOHERAS introduces a new addition to the broadband white light SuperK™ product family Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted King Herod fears a threat to his authority after the birth of Jesus who the Magi call “king of the Jews.” So he acted as Pharoah had done thousands of years earlier and ordered the slaughter of male children many churches read and reflect on the horror of slaughtered infants I read it in September while preparing a church service acknowledging the legacy of Canadian residential schools There is an Anishinaabe story about refusal amid weeping and lament Each piece of creation relies on the things that were created before it: Plants rely on land and water But humans began to abuse the relationship The Anishinaabeg had caused harm through selfish violence and in the middle of their grief the deer withdrew from us; they refused to be comforted There is a lesson there for a church rooted in colonization: Native people can refuse comfort Refuse to be mission fields or charitable projects Refuse reconciliation with people who insist on their own innocence because they didn’t directly steal the land or force children into Indian boarding schools or personally perpetuate the injustices that Native people experience what does true restoration of relationship look like The deer did eventually reconcile with the Anishinaabeg It was the spring after a winter of refusal — during which the Anishinaabeg had time to think and reflect listening to their traditional stories in the context of absence — when the deer and the Anishinaabeg came together Anishinaabeg listened to the deer; they came to terms with the inevitable harms their ongoing relationship would cause the deer They did not absolve themselves by insisting it was only “bad hunters” who had caused harm Those who lived well took responsibility for those who did not and they collectively changed how they lived focusing on relationship rather than building wealth or power Their grief about inevitable harms resulted in humility The church has been part of settlement and colonization for hundreds of years gathering native people into towns and then reservations and eventually boarding schools for the sake of evangelizing Missionaries still do this throughout the global south clearing the land of Indigenous people so that mining companies and agricultural interests can move in participating at home and abroad in a kingdom building that is both metaphorical and literal Herod slaughtered the innocents because he feared a threat to his own kingdom building Native children and adults have died — are dying — because of Christian kingdom building that refuses to be grieved by the inevitable harms of relationship And those of us impacted have every right to refuse comfort until the church reconciles how the good news became absolution for the harms of building a kingdom instead of relationship “This is what the Lord says: Keep your voice from weeping and your eyes from tears Then your children will return from the land of the enemy” (Jeremiah 31:16) the Native people knew there would be harms We knew that we would lose some land so the settlers could have somewhere to live We knew that there would be changes to how we lived The responsibility for reconciliation lies with the ones who exploited that relationship There is a certain liberation in recognizing that injustice is the structural but it obliges you to interrogate your systems: church communities civic groups — all of which exist on stolen land It obliges you to look at the groups you belong to and reflect carefully on how shared beliefs and policies impact native communities The good news is that policies can be changed Patty Krawec (@gindaanis), an Anishnaabe woman from Lac Seul First Nation, co-hosts the podcast Medicine for the Resistance. You can find more of her writing at Aambe on Substack. She lives in Niagara Falls Got something to say about what you're reading LGBTQ+ Jewish people see passports — now outing them for being trans — as part of a familiar playbook from the Holocaust "The very act of her getting up and pressing and pushing to her rightful healing is an act of resistance." 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