“2022 was a very good year for Randy Woodley!”
Interview about Randy Woodley’s-New Book.
In this episode Forrest Inslee talks with Randy about his new book, Becoming Rooted: One Hundred Days of Reconnecting with Sacred Earth. As Randy points out, everyone has indigenous connections to some place in the world. One of the core purposes of his new book is to help people to discover their own indigenous roots, even as they seek to learn from the Native people wherever they now live.
Becoming Rooted: One Hundred Days of Reconnecting with Sacred Earth
Praise for Becoming Rooted
“Randy Woodley reminds us that we all have an understanding of what it means to be indigenous to a spiritual place. Through slowly unfolding layers of meaning, he shows us where we may discover that place for ourselves.”
—Steven Charleston, elder of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma
“Becoming Rooted offers us a precious way back into the land: a way into restoration and reciprocity, a way into healing ourselves and the land, a way of belonging again, a way of finding out who we are. Randy Woodley takes us by the hand and walks with us for the first one hundred days. We begin to think and feel differently, our senses gain new direction, and we start to gain roots. I am so grateful for this book and for the life and work of Randy Woodley.”
— Cláudio Carvalhaes, associate professor of worship, Union Theological Seminary
“Becoming Rooted draws you deeper into relationship with the land where you live. Few of us live in the place we were born, but these reflections take you past that disconnection and help you notice the world around you in new ways.”
—Patty Krawec, Anishnaabe author and co-host of the Medicine for the Resistance podcast
“I am grateful this book is in the world. As we hope to enter intentionally into a healing relationship with the earth, Woodley’s stories and reminders can inspire us to get there.”
—Kaitlin Curtice, author, Native: Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God
Becoming Rooted: One Hundred Days of Reconnecting with Sacred Earth
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This journey is your personal invitation into a different kind of relationship with nature—or, as I like to say, with the whole community of creation. It is also an invitation into a different kind of relationship with Creator, however you understand Creator to be present in your own life and within everything—as God, as Great Mystery, as a higher power, or as the universe.