Winter Talk honors the season of winter. The harvest is long past and spring soon to come. Winter is our time to think, tell stories, and eat. At Winter Talk we come together as community to talk, eat, create new relationships, and then talk some more, eat some more, and learn to know our new relations all the more. Join the people of our landscape, renew old relationships and create new ones!
Winter Talk for 2025 will be a virtual conversation on the Christian Doctrine of Discovery (DOD) and its influence on Christian theology and polity. Hosted by Center for Indigenous Ministries (DOC), Winter Talk is dedicated to furthering the conversation on the Christian Doctrine of Discovery and its dismantling.
Winter Talk is an important time for Canadians and US siblings to gather and eat, learn, and talk about the Doctrine of Discovery’s impact on North American peoples. All people are welcomed to Winter Talk; a place and space of accountability to American Indignity where the Indigenous voice is principle in an exploration of the past, an understanding of the present, and a visioning of the future.
Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Lisa Barnett (Northern Cherokee)
Assistant Professor of American Religious History at Phillips Theological Seminary
Winter Talk Keynote speaker, Dr. Lisa Barnett (Northern Cherokee), is the Assistant Professor of American Religious History at Phillips Theological Seminary. Dr. Barnett’s work has often questioned the history of incursion and resistance found at the intersection of Indigenous and colonist religion.
Dr. Barnett’s new book coming out spring of 2025 is perfect for our conversation, Peyote Politics: The Making of the Native American Church, 1880–1937. Guiding our conversation, Dr. Barnett will help us explore why Peyotism should be considered through the historical/post-colonial context of the Doctrine of Discovery.
Date/Time
Winter Talk 2025 will be taking place virtually via Zoom on Saturday, February 8, 2025 from 10 AM to 5 PM central time. A zoom link will be sent out prior to the event for all registrants.
