Decolonization and the Inward Journey

This article explores decolonial thinking as a necessary condition for ecumenical conversations in preparation for the Sixth World Conference on Faith and Order in October 2025. Arising out of the complex history and experience of the African Caribbean and surveying the wide sweep of decolonial thinking coming out of the global South, this article considers the violence of coloniality, especially its presence in the continued emergence of the church. It is argued that a focus on visible unity requires attention to the inner life of the church and its various denominational and confessional forms. Attending to the internal, particularly often‐unresolved, histories of violence within denominational and confessional bodies is the task of decolonial approaches

Confession (law) · Confessional · Decolonization · Faith · Order (exchange) · Task (project management) · Cuban History and Society · Latin American and Latino Studies · Race, History, and American Society