A year long community of practice for White people with Christian lineage to reclaim ritual fluency using the wheel of the year as our guide.
Do you feel like you live in a void of spiritual or cultural identity?
White Christian descendants often leave behind their family’s religious roots and reach for yoga, Buddhism, community organizing or rich cultural traditions like Día de los Muertos to fill this void, and to distance ourselves from the violence of our own lineage.
But this can leave us feeling rootless. These are life-affirming lineages, practices and rituals that honor ancestors, honor the body, and make meaning of the world around us. But they are not of our people, and they don’t account for the legacy of harm.
We need to find our way together with others who share this lineage. With Weaving New Ritual, we are here to co-create liberatory practice to support the collective in these questions.
WHO
This offering is for White people who have Christian ancestry and/or currently identify as Christian who:
are curious about how their religious lineage has shaped them
desire more ritual and spiritual practice in their life - and have curiosity about sourcing that practice from their Christian lineage and through connection to land and their more-than-human kin
have a political analysis that affirms the harms and violence of colonialism & acknowledges the ways our spiritual ancestors contributed to these systems of harm
want more integration between their spiritual life and their political commitment
want to experiment, play, co-create new ritual practice in a collective - and are willing to wonder and fail together
desire to practice being in and with your body more, to integrate embodiment practice with ritual/spiritual practice
WHAT
Christianity has long been complicit in the propagation and violence of colonialism and White-supremacy. To uphold these oppressive structures, the descendants of White settler colonial Christians have become more disembodied in ritual and spiritual practice, ruptured their relationship to the earth, and severed ancestral relationships.
This project gathers people who want to pursue a more rigorous relationship with their Christian lineage, to discern the blessings and burdens of it, and to cultivate repair from these historical and present day harms.
For one year we will study and practice together at these intersections, in person and virtually. Using the wheel of the year as our guide, we will explore embodiment, Christian and land-based ritual, the impact of Christianity on a colonized land, and how we tell stories (including scripture & theology). We will learn more about how colonialism and capitalism have shaped our spiritual lineage. We will study through collective praxis as we weave new ritual: learning, experimenting, praying and failing together, for the sake of standing in deeper solidarity with the communities most impacted by colonialism.
WHY
How are we preparing ourselves to independently and collectively experience change?
We live in a time of polycrisis: climate change, growing fascism globally, late-stage capitalism, pandemics, increasing militarism and threat of global war.
The pace of these crises is increasing, in part, because Christian Nationalism and Christian Zionism are feeding them. It feels ever more vital to be with our lineage more as the descendants of White Christian people.
To study this lineage and compost the parts that need composting.
To practice and pray together as we bring forward the resiliency of our people and our ancestral spiritual traditions for the sake of our collective liberation.
The blessings of our lines are right here, waiting for us to greet them.