Undoing Manifest Destiny: Settler America, Christian Colonists, and the Pursuit of Justice

Reckoning with the Colonial Past to Bring Justice to the Present

As White settlers spread across North America, they crafted and enacted an epic story of their God-given dominion—over the land, over Indigenous nations, and over the future. Their narrative constructed a myth of innocence that justified a massive program of violence and dispossession by suppressing a darker history. That history still reverberates today, from settler America’s relations with the Indigenous nations of the Unit...