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This month, Lancaster Theological Seminary Library is celebrating Native American Heritage with a special collection of ...
10/20/2026

This month, Lancaster Theological Seminary Library is celebrating Native American Heritage with a special collection of works on indigenous topics. All material is available for checkout.

NATIVE AMERICANS, CHRISTIANITY, AND THE SHAPING OF THE AMERICAN RELIGIOUS LANDSCAPE
EDITED BY JOEL W. MARTIN & MARK A. NICHOLAS
This book reconsiders the complex and often misunderstood history of Native peoples' engagement with Christianity and with Euro-American missionaries. Surveying mission encounters from contact through the mid-nineteenth century, it looks at both American Christianity and indigenous religion. Rather than questioning the authenticity of Native Christian experiences, the chapters reveal how indigenous peoples negotiated change with regard to missions, missionaries, and Christianity. This book challenges the pervasive stereotype of Native Americans as culturally static and ill-equipped to navigate the roiling currents associated with colonialism and missionization.

View the full special collection here: https://lancasterlibrary.moravian.edu/cgi-bin/koha/opac-shelves.pl?op=view&shelfnumber=195&sortfield=title

This month, Lancaster Theological Seminary Library is celebrating Native American Heritage with a special collection of ...
10/16/2026

This month, Lancaster Theological Seminary Library is celebrating Native American Heritage with a special collection of works on indigenous topics. All material is available for checkout.

NATIVE AMERICANS, THE MAINLINE CHURCH, AND THE QUEST FOR IN*******AL JUSTICE
BY DAVID PHILLIPS HANSEN
The Native American drive for self-governance is the most important civil rights struggle of our time — a struggle too often covered up. In this book, David Phillips Hansen discusses the church’s role in helping America heal its bleeding wounds of systemic oppression.
While many believe the United States is a melting pot for all cultures, Hansen asserts the longest war in human history is the one Anglo-Christians have waged on Native Americans. Using faith as a weapon against the darkness of injustice, this book will change the way you view how we must solve the pressing problems of racism, poverty, environmental degradation, and violence, and it will remind you that faith can be the leaven of justice.

View the full special collection here: https://lancasterlibrary.moravian.edu/cgi-bin/koha/opac-shelves.pl?op=view&shelfnumber=195&sortfield=title

FAITH LEADERS AS INFORMATION LEADERS (PANEL)October 29, 20263PM EST🔍Registration information in the comments.👇This panel...
10/15/2026

FAITH LEADERS AS INFORMATION LEADERS (PANEL)
October 29, 2026
3PM EST
🔍Registration information in the comments.👇

This panel, hosted by the Association for Leaders of Lifelong Learning in Ministry (ALLLM) and moderated by Shaelagh Martin, explores the role of "Faith Leaders as Information Leaders." James Bell shares data from surveys and interviews to understand the information behaviors of practicing faith leaders. Glenn Melville, in response to demand for flexible and accessible learning, provides data on the benefits and limitations of the webinar modality for continuing ministerial development. Kris Veldheer reimagines information literacy competencies for parish clergy to function faithfully in a complex information environment.

This month, Lancaster Theological Seminary Library is celebrating Native American Heritage with a special collection of ...
10/12/2026

This month, Lancaster Theological Seminary Library is celebrating Native American Heritage with a special collection of works on indigenous topics. All material is available for checkout.

THE LAND IS NOT EMPTY
BY SARAH AUGUSTINE
In The Land Is Not Empty, author Sarah Augustine unpacks the harm of the Doctrine of Discovery—a set of laws rooted in the fifteenth century that gave Christian governments the moral and legal right to seize lands they “discovered” despite those lands already being populated by indigenous peoples. Legitimized by the church and justified by a misreading of Scripture, the Doctrine of Discovery says a land can be considered “empty” and therefore free for the taking if inhabited by “heathens, pagans, and infidels.”
In this prophetic book, Augustine, a Pueblo woman, reframes the colonization of North America as she investigates ways that the Doctrine of Discovery continues to devastate indigenous cultures, and even the planet itself, as it justifies exploitation of both natural resources and people.

View the full special collection here: https://lancasterlibrary.moravian.edu/cgi-bin/koha/opac-shelves.pl?op=view&shelfnumber=195&sortfield=title

This month, Lancaster Theological Seminary Library is celebrating Native American Heritage with a special collection of ...
10/08/2026

This month, Lancaster Theological Seminary Library is celebrating Native American Heritage with a special collection of works on indigenous topics. All material is available for checkout. View the full special collection here: https://lancasterlibrary.moravian.edu/cgi-bin/koha/opac-shelves.pl?op=view&shelfnumber=195&sortfield=title

A NOTE ON OUR LOCAL INDIGENOUS HISTORY
Lancaster Theological Seminary rests on the unceded ancestral lands of the Susquehannock (Conestoga) people. The last of the Conestoga in our region were brutally murdered by the Paxton Boys, a group of Presbyterian Scots-Irish immigrants, in 1763, less than a mile from where the seminary now sits. A group of Moravian Lenape and Mohican natives were saved from the same fate, thanks in part to the intervention of Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia.

To learn more about the indigenous peoples of your current residing place, visit www.Native-Land.ca.

Welcome back, students! We're entering our second week of classes already, and if your syllabus has your head spinning--...
09/07/2026

Welcome back, students! We're entering our second week of classes already, and if your syllabus has your head spinning--don't fear. The library has your back! Stop in during our regular hours for assistance.

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