(This conversation was pre-recorded in late 2018.)
Highlights Time Code Guide
00:13 Jonathan Wilson introduces Cheryl Bear
00:24 Land acknowledgment
01:20 Jonathan provides Cheryl’s background
02:30 Cheryl shares the Indigenous way of identifying herself
05:00 Prayer
07:11 Jonathan’s donut story
08:08 Cheryl’s donut story
09:50 Chery’s journey with Jesus
11:05 Jonathan’s journey with Jesus
17:10 Cheryl’s Indigenous heritage intersecting with her faith
21:39 Missionaries and Christians painting Indigenous communities in a negative light
24:00 What helped Cheryl stay faithful in the middle of this way of Christian thinking
25:39 Who is Richard Twist
28:00 Reconciliation being Christian and being Indigenous
32:19 Writing Indigenous Christian songs
35:00 Australia’s Indigenous story is similar to Canada’s
36:46 Jonathan speaks about J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings as a cosmic redemption story
38:30 When did Cheryl start to use the language “creator” and using it in relation to the Good News
48:44 Different names for Creator
50:00 “Church Supremacy”
52:00 Colonialism
57:00 Knowing the One True God through his attributes
1:00:00 Past work with CBM
1:04:30 Churches working in reconciliation
1:06:24 Cheryl’s vision