Books
Living in Color
Randy Woodley casts a multiethnic vision for people of every nation, tribe, and tongue. He carefully unpacks this vision, directed towards how Christians should think about racial and cultural identity, demonstrating that ethnically diverse communities have always been God's intent. 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 Indigenous heritage and experience, he adds a distinctive perspective to discussions of race and multiethnicity. Here is a true vision for unity in diversity.
shalom and the community of creation
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 Creator and creation, an end to empire and warfare, the ability to live in the moment, for justice, restoration - and an 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.
decolonizing evangelcalism
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. Decolonizing Evangelicalism is a starting point for those who hope to change the conversation and see that the world could be lived in a different way.
“A ringing call to White Evangelicals to understand and abandon their cultural captivity…this book is important and urgent.”
—Ronald J. Sider, author of Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger
The Harmony Tree
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.
