Скачать или смотреть Broken Promises, Broken Systems: An Indigenous view of theodicy in the form of systemic injustice

In this lecture Rev. Dr. Carmen Lansdowne analyses theodicy - why a loving God should permit evil -and the ways in which our failure to act on the side of justice allows for the proliferation of evil in the form of systemic injustice. The current context in Canada where non-indigenous people were “shocked” by news that was (in reality) not news to indigenous peoples about our complicated history has borne witness to the ways in which individual intention has nothing to do with systemic injustice. 

Bio:
The Rev. Dr. Carmen Lansdowne is the Executive Director of First United Church Community Ministry Society and First United Church Social Housing Society. She joined First United in February 2017 and has led an organizational turnaround resulting in increased stability and capacity. She currently sits on the boards of the Vancouver Foundation and the Sandy Saulteaux Spiritual Centre (Beausejour, MB), and chairs the national Indigenous Candidacy Board for the United Church of Canada, supporting Indigenous and non-Indigenous candidates for ministry in Indigenous contexts. She has previously served on the Pension Board of The United Church of Canada (UCC), Executive of the UCC’s General Council, as United Church representative to the Executive and Central Committees of the World Council of Churches, and the Theology, Inter-church, Interfaith committee of the UCC. Rev. Dr Lansdowne holds a PhD from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA and is a member of the Heiltsuk First Nation.  She writes and speaks on issues of indigenous and intercultural theology, urban ministry, and systemic injustice. She is passionate about creating a life with great stories and amazing adventures with her family.