Tuesday, June 01, 2021

Information about an Annual Conference Speaker

Tod Bolsinger, a professor at Fuller Theological School in California, will be presenting at this year's Church of the Brethren Annual Conference as a resource person on the topic of adaptive leadership. Since the publication of his 2015 book Canoeing the Mountains, which problematically takes as its central metaphor the Corps of Discovery led by Lewis and Clark - with its exploitation of Shoshone woman Sacagawea and enslaved Black man York - and its mission of scoping out the western half of the continent in order to prepare the way to violently displace the Native peoples living there, Dr. Bolsinger has been on a journey of adaptive leadership learning of his own, toward cultural humility and willingness to shift his agendas to hold space for uncomfortable, necessary, and painful conversations.

You are encouraged to give this short article a read; https://depree.org/vulnerability-resilience-andpartnership-formation-for-confronting-injustice/ as we all continue to be challenged by the imperative of seeking God's racial justice.

Rev. Dr. Bobbi Dykema
Pastor
Springfield, First Church of the Brethren