Podcast Launch: Re-Membering

In this episode

Beer, Baptists and Pentecost: How the hops fields of Puget Sound saved more than souls

By the middle of 1880 thousands of Indigenous Peoples from up and down the Pacific Coast and Interior BC were flocking to Puget Sound to pick hops. Tune in to hear about a unique ministry that grows up in these fields and the missed opportunities that follow.

Show Notes

Much of the content of this podcast comes from my historical/theological research about Baptist engagement with Indigenous Peoples. I am happy to provide access to that research to those who are interested. You can contact me here.

For more on the hops harvest in the Puget Sound see Indigenous Hop Pickers in Western Washington by Hans Zeiger

For Indigenous Women’s Role in the hop harvest see The Practice of Everyday Colonialism: Indigenous Women at Work in the Hop Fields and Tourist Industry of Puget Sound by Paige Raibmon