Uploaded March 2024 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago
This year's lecture was held in person on February 29th, 2024, and was recorded live.
More information about this event can be found at grebel.ca/sawatsky
The 2024 Rodney and Lorna Sawatsky Visiting Lecturer is Rev. Dr. Ray Aldred, Director of The Indigenous Studies Program at the Vancouver School of Theology.
Rev. Dr. Ray Aldred presents:
Is Reconciliation Possible?
How do you find reconciliation when justice is so far away? For individuals who have experienced oppression and marginalization, the church’s advocacy of reconciliation can seem artificial or contrived. How do you continue to advocate for reconciliation if it means that you will never see justice for the ones you have lost? Perhaps the only way forward is to listen to our elders, to the call from those who have suffered and are surviving, to seek reconciliation. Perhaps we need to seek the truth, but in the end, embrace reconciliation and try to live together as neighbours. Reconciliation is not cheap grace, it cost something.
Produced by: Kevin Daniel
©2024 Conrad Grebel University College
This year's lecture was held in person on February 29th, 2024, and was recorded live.
More information about this event can be found at grebel.ca/sawatsky
The 2024 Rodney and Lorna Sawatsky Visiting Lecturer is Rev. Dr. Ray Aldred, Director of The Indigenous Studies Program at the Vancouver School of Theology.
Rev. Dr. Ray Aldred presents:
Is Reconciliation Possible?
How do you find reconciliation when justice is so far away? For individuals who have experienced oppression and marginalization, the church’s advocacy of reconciliation can seem artificial or contrived. How do you continue to advocate for reconciliation if it means that you will never see justice for the ones you have lost? Perhaps the only way forward is to listen to our elders, to the call from those who have suffered and are surviving, to seek reconciliation. Perhaps we need to seek the truth, but in the end, embrace reconciliation and try to live together as neighbours. Reconciliation is not cheap grace, it cost something.
Produced by: Kevin Daniel
©2024 Conrad Grebel University College
