Growing up with a Mexican Catholic mother and a Navajo father, Teresa Rojo Tsosie says she always felt her Catholic faith and native traditions were...
Indigenous peoples
Jawanza Eric Clark is an author and associate professor of religious studies at Manhattan College. White Christians’ approach to solving the ecological crisis...
In January 2021, President Joe Biden signed an executive order committing the United States to preserving 30 percent of its land and territorial ocean by the...
James Joyce is famously quoted as writing: “Catholic means ‘Here comes everybody.’ ” While that may have been the case in Ireland in the 1930s when Finnegans...
Listen on: Apple | Google | Spotify Most people in the United States probably remember learning the story of the first Thanksgiving back in elementary school...
In the very first episode of the Hulu/FX dramedy series Reservation Dogs, four teenaged Native Americans gather to mark the first anniversary of their friend’s...
I Pray for My Enemies Joy Harjo (Joy Harjo, 2021) In tumultuous times, to whom do we go for wisdom? In many cultures, poets, elders, and religious figures are...
The Indigenous Alaskan Yup’ik people have 30 terms to describe the color of snow. When Father Stan Jaszek began ministering to them, he only knew one of the...
When Tony Calumet landed in Nome, Alaska in September 2020, he whispered a prayer: “If this is what you want, God, you’re going to have to help me.” At nearly...
On June 25, 1975, Michael “Casimir” Cypher was arrested and executed by soldiers in Honduras, thereby becoming the first of several U.S. missionaries to be...
