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The work reassesses Christianity through non-Western, Native American perspectives, challenging disembodied doctrines and exposing how worldview shapes interpretation of Scripture. It then offers a constructive path forward centered on community transformation, restoring wholeness, confronting unjust systems, repairing broken relationships, and reframing faith toward healing rather than fear.","Praise for How Western Christianity Got It Wrong  \n“Randy Woodley is a trustworthy prophetic voice teaching the harmonious wisdom of Indigenous peoples and the way of Jesus. How Western Christianity Got It Wrong gives us a much-needed healing vision for the future by looking honestly at Christianity’s past, problems, patterns, and possibilities.”  \n—Fr. Richard Rohr, OFM, founder of the Center for Action and Contemplation; author of The Tears of Things  \n“Our Chickamauga Cherokee prophet isga gua, who spoke of a need for‘universal brotherhoods-sisterhood,’ nevertheless characterized the ‘whiteman’s churches’ as desolate places filled with ‘spirits of blindness’ lying in wait to possess the unwary. Randy Woodley stands, a courageous voice in the wilderness, calling for the casting out of these spirits of blindness and the opening of eyes to see.”  \n—uku jisquoquo asequoi (Robert Francis), first fire feeder / peace chief at the Daksi Gatiyo (Chickamauga Cherokee Ceremonial Grounds)  \n“Honest, vulnerable, respectful, yet fierce. Anyone drawn to this book already knows that Western Christianity got it wrong. Randy Woodley’s remarkable book helps us place the reasons why. By the end, you get that following Jesus is a journey largely disconnected from just about everything in Western culture and religion. But it’s not all problems. Woodley lovingly affirms what your intuition already knows: that spirituality, even for us Western humans from the Christ tradition, is intimately connected with the aliveness of all creation.”  \n—Victoria Loorz, author of Church of the Wild and coauthor of Field Guide to Church of the Wild ; founder of Wild Church Network and the Center for Wild Spirituality  \n“I can’t think of a book anywhere that does what this book does as powerfully as this book does. It gets to the heart of what’s gone wrong in Western Christianity and then gets to the heart of what is needed. Randy Woodley is the right person to write this book, and he accomplishes so  \nmuch in twelve hard-hitting, no-nonsense, deeply intelligent, clearly written, heartfelt chapters. Every seminarian should read this book, along with every pastor and priest, and every Christian and post-Christian.”  \n—Brian D. McLaren, author of Life After Doom and Do I Stay Christian?  \n“Randy Woodley’s critique of Western Christianity is so blistering and comprehensive that it would be easy for those of us still committed to some version of it to respond with defensive dismissiveness. Instead, in light of the manifest corruptions of our tradition, in the past and today, it is time to open our minds and hearts even to the most radical critiques. I urge all believers in Jesus to consider seriously both the critique and the winsome constructive account of the way of Jesus that our brother offers here.”  \n—Rev. Dr. David P. Gushee, Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics, Mercer University  \n“In this radical, provocative, and refreshingly honest critique, Randy Woodley pulls back the curtain of two thousand years of Christianity and lets us reassess the drama through non-Western, Native American eyes. Western theologians may feel uncomfortable with some of Woodley’s assessment of traditional disembodied theological doctrines; anthropologists, less so. By exposing how our worldview shapes and interprets reality, it becomes clear that the cliché ‘The Bible says what it means, and means what it says’ is not true, if it ever was. After exposing the many problems with Western Christianity, Woodley charts a path forward, focusing more on community-centered transformation than on individualism, restoring wholeness, challenging unjust systems, and mending broken relationships. 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