For a new & inclusive future

“My husband and I have been researching Europe’s past because our heritage is from Europe, from two places distant from each other, but that have merged in Iron Age Celtic Europe. That is why we drill down in Europe, to find our own roots but also roots that probably are shared by everyone with European heritage. What we see, though, maybe applicable to other populations across the globe.

All of us trace back to Africa. We probably trace back to ancestors who held the same two priorities or we wouldn’t be meeting over this topic. And those two priorities that we still carry forward are (1) to protect family and (2) to guard the natural world.

One other alert that I’d like to bring to your attention. This is not a simple subject. Our findings are not easy to voice and we don’t do it lightly. We see no way to separate Christianity - and the master-servant, male-only model it espouses - from the atrocities that our ancestors have been made to suffer. Unless we confront this fallacious and destructive belief-system head-on, future generations will remain at risk from these same forces.”