https://www.randywoodley.com/about daily 0.75 2025-10-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6ba030a03f570c4f27ad9d/33d69f3a-0ce5-47c7-8376-8d12cccc3c87/Untitled+design+%2821%29.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6ba030a03f570c4f27ad9d/1635277035298-EW1HFTET8O7OSEZC47O5/Randy+%26+Edith+VC%2CBC.jpg About - Randy, Edith and Eloheh I happily count Randy and Edith as family and mentors. It would be difficult and would take up far too much space here to recount the ways they have shown me kindness, taken me in, and gone out of their way to support and encourage me in my work and life, particularly when it involves struggles for Indigenous justice, ecological defense, and solidarity with peace and sovereignty movements in Korea. I am hardly alone. The Woodleys have been involved in mentoring Indigenous leaders and others for over three decades. Their service among the most disenfranchised people in America led them to become serious about important issues such as peace, racism, and eco-justice for everyone. -Seth Martin, Folksinger and Activist https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6ba030a03f570c4f27ad9d/1640721638952-VEOUQEH60QMI9I59VLNM/RW+Outdoor+Headshot+copy.png About - Meet Randy Woodley: (an interview, “Decolonize Your Faith”) "Holy Heretics" was one of my favorite interviews of all time! Definitely, the most fun! Gracious hosts and great questions that allowed me to tell the gritty truth! Lots of important information in the Show Notes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6ba030a03f570c4f27ad9d/1639541295058-2Z7L22F3XMLWGXML8ZCC/unnamed.jpg About - Video Interview: The Harmony Tree Doug Pagitt helps Randy peel back the many layers of this unique children’s book, The Harmony Tree: A Story of Healing and Community. This book is “a story for adults that children will like!” https://www.randywoodley.com/resources daily 0.75 2021-11-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6ba030a03f570c4f27ad9d/1636152303298-W3RPMFJ0IOFTI19BI8JN/Screen+Shot+2021-11-05+at+3.44.09+PM.png Resources - Native and Christian? What kind of impact does dualistic thinking have on one’s theology? What role does the Bible play when we talk about Indigenous theology? Why might the Gospel not be considered “good news” for Indigenous people? How can Jesus be accessed outside of scripture? “Christianity promised all these things: development, hope, etc., etc. But for Indigenous people, it only delivered oppression and death and bad news. It was the bad news of the Gospel.” – Randy Woodley “I don’t even think Jesus wanted to start a religion. I think he wanted to start a movement in all religions and in all places, and I think if he would have started a religion, it would look nothing like Western Christianity.” – Randy Woodley https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6ba030a03f570c4f27ad9d/1635006571392-XDFP137NBEI8LN6MBGUG/Earthkeepers.png Resources Listen now. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6ba030a03f570c4f27ad9d/1634938322890-SZQY43SBVOBTW1PT5RGV/Faith+_+Justice+Network.png Resources Listen now. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6ba030a03f570c4f27ad9d/1635262114240-KK85IP6ROWBGLA45WXIN/Arise+Podcast.png Resources - A Conversation with Randy Woodley on Deconstruction How to make sense of the cultural shift we find ourselves in, why deconstruction is necessary and how the path forward is a return to hospitality. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6ba030a03f570c4f27ad9d/1601669170455-WCLSV93CB2N63ULMX4RY/Old_South_Church_Boston Resources - Co-Authored the Boston Declaration Dr. Randy Woodley was one of several people to ideate and draft the Boston Declaration. Inspired by the Barmen Declaration, the Boston Declaration contends that following Jesus today means fighting poverty, economic exploitation, racism, sexism, and all forms of oppression from the deepest wells of our faith. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6ba030a03f570c4f27ad9d/1602101158354-5ZQAZYHMH4C50TJA58PZ/decolonizeworldviewARTICLE.jpg Resources - Decolonizing the Western Worldview Read Kollbri terre Sonnenblume interview with Dr. Randy Woodley for the book, “The Failures of Farming & the Necessity of Wildtending.” We create cultures from our worldview and we also create our worldview from our cultures. When you grow with the land you learn how to make an even exchange. But when you come into a new place with another worldview from a another land and another culture, it’s a little harder unless you’re open to understanding what’s really happening here, what reality is in this place. https://www.randywoodley.com/eloheh daily 0.75 2023-01-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6ba030a03f570c4f27ad9d/1659047030487-2KQS3K3LUD6IEPT30NB0/eloheh-logo_primary-color.png https://www.randywoodley.com/book-randy daily 0.75 2022-07-28 https://www.randywoodley.com/home daily 1.0 2025-10-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6ba030a03f570c4f27ad9d/94a4f9b2-131c-46d0-be04-c7fbbd8e364a/Eloheh+Sunrise.jpeg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6ba030a03f570c4f27ad9d/d67ca09a-b935-4dbd-ba16-e703c82d8dbc/randy+woodley+headshot+for+substack.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6ba030a03f570c4f27ad9d/ba6ee0f3-ea2d-4efe-9f69-a9f50fe17a01/randy+site+icons.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6ba030a03f570c4f27ad9d/aa9f4896-f4e4-47e4-83eb-d6b13cbf0342/1.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6ba030a03f570c4f27ad9d/be176c84-9825-4388-9d23-03947e6ecc10/2.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6ba030a03f570c4f27ad9d/21e1757e-61da-4430-bf36-10d9c0231805/randy+site+icons+%281%29.png https://www.randywoodley.com/articles-presentations daily 0.75 2021-10-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6ba030a03f570c4f27ad9d/1601408587915-MO30LFVGA2XUPI247G3Q/sojournerscover.may2019.gif Articles & Presentations - The Fullness Thereof Read Randy’s guest article in Sojourner’s Magazine on how Western worldviews have other related assumptions—such as hierarchy, extrinsic categorization, individualism, patriarchy, utopianism, racism, triumphalism, religious intolerance, greed, and anthropocentrism. All of our lenses have various perspectival tints, but Western worldviews seem to have several in common, including the foundational influence of Platonic dualism, inherited from the Greeks. This particular influence absolutizes the realm of the abstract (spirit, soul, mind) and reduces the importance of the concrete realm (earth, body, material), disengaging them from one another. In dualistic thinking, we are no longer an existing whole. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6ba030a03f570c4f27ad9d/1601409927562-RN2YSZMHPWYBGDOE68J8/creativejusticewebinar.jpg Articles & Presentations - Creative Justice Webinar A Webinar hosted by Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon, listen to the conversation of how caring for creation intersects with racial justice and the health of the soil, water and air. This work looks unique in different parts of the state based on the people who live there, ways the land has been used, and species and landscape elements present in each region. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6ba030a03f570c4f27ad9d/1601410598100-L7FIZ44GXO1Y0B4HITR3/A%2Bconversation%2Bon%2Bindigenizing%2Bour%2Btheology.jpg Articles & Presentations - Indigenizing Theology A conversation on Indigenizing Theology with Dr. Randy Woodley (Keetoowah Cherokee) Co-Creator and Co-Sustainer of Eloheh Indigenous Center for Earth Justice and Erna Kim Hackett Founder of Liberated Together. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6ba030a03f570c4f27ad9d/1601409593979-TI9OKR243QQCVN906ASD/CPCUCC-thumbnail.jpg Articles & Presentations - Racism, Land Tenure and Climate Change: Welcome to the Euro-Patricene Listen to Dr. Randy Woodley’s keynote lecture on climate change, racism, and land tenure. The Central Pacific Conference, UCC a community of 47 congregations in Oregon, southern Idaho and southern Washington is a multiracial and multicultural community that hosted the conference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6ba030a03f570c4f27ad9d/1634936294531-100FWNLY4EIUJYCQGGD2/unsplash-image-Oaqk7qqNh_c.jpg Articles & Presentations - Indigenizing Worldviews: A Native Vision for Earthkeeping In this episode of Circlewood’s Earthkeepers podcast, Rev. Dr. Randy Woodley— focuses on a Native theology of land and environment. Listen in on the discussion to understand the Western world’s desperate need for new ways of being in and with creation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6ba030a03f570c4f27ad9d/1607814832037-MXXIQATBE9VWJ5FJ5XOI/Jesus+Radical+Interview.jpg Articles & Presentations - Christianity and Colonization, Shalom and Indigenous Jesus Join Randy Woodley on his interview with Jesus Radicals discussing the journey of decolonization and the work and wrestle we all face when incorporating our new knowledge into our daily lives. His wisdom of Shalom and hope for the future makes this an educational and hopeful read. https://www.randywoodley.com/other-books daily 0.75 2025-10-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6ba030a03f570c4f27ad9d/1658878518075-S2PJLIZBWKZV6JDBJO92/Cover+copy.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6ba030a03f570c4f27ad9d/1634933871682-ROQJR0Y85KP30LW15FSA/Libro+1.jpg Books - Becoming Rooted: One Hundred Days of Reconnecting with Sacred Earth What does it mean to become rooted in the land? How can we become better relatives to our greatest teacher, the Earth? Becoming Rooted invites us to live out a deeply spiritual relationship with the whole community of creation and with Creator. Through meditations and ideas for reflection and action, Randy Woodley, an activist, author, scholar, and Cherokee descendant, recognized by the Keetoowah Band, guides us on a one-hundred-day journey to reconnect with the Earth. Woodley invites us to come away from the American dream--otherwise known as an Indigenous nightmare--and get in touch with the water, land, plants, and creatures around us, with the people who lived on that land for thousands of years prior to Europeans' arrival, and with ourselves. In walking toward the harmony way, we honor balance, wholeness, and connection. Creation is always teaching us. Our task is to look, and to listen, and to live well. She is teaching us now. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6ba030a03f570c4f27ad9d/1634934143025-KMRM1FN0HFA43IXQYS9V/Libro+2.jpg Books - Indigenous Theology and the Western Worldview (Acadia Studies in Bible and Theology): A Decolonized Approach to Christian Doctrine This volume by a Cherokee teacher, former pastor, missiologist, and historian brings Indigenous theology into conversation with Western approaches to history and theology. Written in an accessible, conversational style that incorporates numerous stories and questions, this book exposes the weaknesses of a Western worldview through a personal engagement with Indigenous theology. Randy Woodley critiques the worldview that undergirds the North American church by dismantling assumptions regarding early North American histories and civilizations, offering a comparative analysis of worldviews, and demonstrating a decolonized approach to Christian theology. Woodley explains that Western theology has settled for a particular view of God and has perpetuated that basic view for hundreds of years, but Indigenous theology originates from a completely different DNA. Instead of beginning with God-created humanity, it begins with God-created place. Instead of emphasizing individualism, it emphasizes a corporateness that encompasses the whole community of creation. And instead of being about the next world, it is about the tangibility of our lived experiences in this present world. The book encourages readers to reject the many problematic aspects of the Western worldview and to convert to a worldview that is closer to that of Jesus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6ba030a03f570c4f27ad9d/1634934474324-7P2TFK6KC0IFP2LYNO16/Libro+4.jpg Books - Shalom and the Community of Creation Materialism. Greed. Loneliness. A manic pace. Abuse of the natural world. Inequality. Injustice. War. The endemic problems facing America today are staggering. We need change and restoration. But where to begin? In Shalom and the Community of Creation Randy Woodley offers an answer: learn more about the Native American 'Harmony Way,' a concept that closely parallels biblical shalom. Doing so can bring reconciliation between Euro- Westerners and indigenous peoples, a new connectedness with the Creator and creation, an end to imperial warfare, the ability to live in the moment, justice, restoration -- and a more biblically authentic spirituality. Rooted in redemptive correction, this book calls for true partnership through the co-creation of new theological systems that foster wholeness and peace. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6ba030a03f570c4f27ad9d/1634935854037-YJCAK3SC17I8UH9MACF9/Libro+5.jpg Books - Living in color "We would never give Picasso a paintbrush and only one color of paint, and expect a masterpiece," writes Randy Woodley. "We would not give Beethoven a single piano key and say, 'Play us a concerto.' Yet we limit our Creator in just these ways." Though our Christian experience is often blandly monochromatic, God intends for us to live in dynamic, multihued communities that embody his vibrant creativity. Randy Woodley, a Keetowah Cherokee, casts a biblical, multiethnic vision for people of every nation, tribe and tongue. He carefully unpacks how Christians should think about racial and cultural identity, demonstrating that ethnically diverse communities have always been God's intent for his people. Woodley gives practical insights for how we can relate to one another with sensitivity, contextualize the gospel, combat the subtleties of racism, and honor one another's unique contributions to church and society. Along the way, he reckons with difficult challenges from our racially painful history and offers hope for healing and restoration. With profound wisdom from his own Native American heritage and experience, Woodley's voice adds a distinctive perspective to contemporary discussions of racial reconciliation and multiethnicity. Here is a biblical vision for unity in diversity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6ba030a03f570c4f27ad9d/1635013162573-E1FMFWV70XTEA3TBQ3PK/Libro+6.jpg Books - The Harmony Tree: A Story of Healing and Community In The Harmony Tree, an old grandmother oak tree is spared when loggers come through and clear-cut a forest. Grandmother Oak finds herself alone until new houses start showing up on the land, along with new trees. Grandmother Oak tries to make friends with these trees, but they are shallow and focused only on themselves. As Grandmother Oak shares her stories and how she came to have such deep roots, she finds hope and healing. The other trees, seeing the value of Grandmother Oak's history with the land, begin to find strength too. The inspiration for this story comes from the author's own fifty-acre farm, where all the virgin trees were logged except for a large, white oak tree that sat at the top of a hill. Randy Woodley, says, "I was always grateful the loggers left that one 300-year-old tree for us to enjoy." That and the tragic circumstances that caused the Woodleys to lose their land and farm just because they were Native Americans inspired Randy to write this story. Under such circumstances, Randy wondered, "How could this one tree bring about healing and friendship in the world? If we can change our minds about our current views of progress, ecology, and the relationship between settler and host peoples, then maybe that one grandmother oak tree, left uncut, offers some hope for everyone."... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f6ba030a03f570c4f27ad9d/1634935958842-GU799Q2N5S2QL9EHFK6V/Libro+3.jpg Books - Decolonizing Evangelicalism The increasing interest in postcolonial theologies has initiated a vital conversation within and outside the academy in recent decades, turning many "standard theologies" on their head. This book introduces seminary students, ministry leaders, and others to key aspects, prevailing mentalities, and some major figures to consider when coming to understand postcolonial theologies. Woodley and Sanders provide a unique combination of indigenous theology and other academic theory to point readers toward the way of Jesus. 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