Sacred Land, Sacred Water

The Rev. Dr. Guy Erwin, bishop of the Southwest California Synod of the ELCA, will speak from a Native perspective on the history and larger significance of the Standing Rock protest against the proposed Dakota Access Pipeline. Bishop Erwin took part in this protest in solidarity with Native leaders and in opposition to the human and environmental threats the pipeline project represents.

Bishop Erwin is a member of the Osage Nation and the ELCA's first Native American bishop. He also is the first openly gay bishop in the ELCA. Before being elected in 2013, Bishop Erwin served as the Gerhard and Olga J. Belgum Professor of Lutheran Confessional Theology at Cal Lutheran and Director of the Segerhammar Center for Faith and Culture.

Admission is free.