S6E02: A Theologian Confronts the Doctrine of Discovery and Calls for Institutional Repair
In this episode, Jeannine Hill Fletcher confronts how white Christian institutions cultivated racial hierarchy—through indoctrination, forced conversion, marriage policies, and inherited land theft—to sever Indigenous matrilineal bonds and dismantle ties to land, arguing that justice demands reckoning with those systems and our complicity, as explored in her works Grace of the Ghosts: A Theology of Institutional Reparation and The Sin of White Supremacy: Christianity, Racism, and Religious Diversity in America.
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Adam DJ Brett, "S6E02: A Theologian Confronts the Doctrine of Discovery and Calls for Institutional Repair," Doctrine of Discovery Project (23 January 2026), https://doctrineofdiscovery.org/blog/link/s6e02-theologian-confronts-doctrine-discovery-calls-institutional-repair/.
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