Preacher: Pastor Jin S. Kim | Series: CAN Conference 2014

What is this Conference About?

Christian faith in America has always been thoroughly colonized. The US was birthed out of colonization of the land and the genocide of its peoples, and it was Christian theology’s “Doctrine of Discovery” that served as its rationale. This doctrine continues to shape America’s national laws and our neo-liberal policies that are destroying local communities and the environment across the globe.

Church of All Nations is hosting a two-day conference to confront the legacy of this ‘gospel’ of conquest. Our questions include: How did a faith with roots in navigating the underside of imperialism become so complicit in the colonization of the globe? How does the church today repudiate this heretical gospel, exorcizing its demons from our common life and witness?

We invite pastors, theologians, seminarians, community activists, congregational leaders and young adults—those indigenous to the land and its subsequent settlers—to join in exploring how the church might take responsibility for our history, and move the church forward. Our aim is to work actively for the decolonization of our own traditions, communities, and the land that we now live on, that we might all find healing and salvation.