This book is a powerful meditative tool for personal growth and reflection that leads to tangible communal outcomes and solidarity. As a result, this intentional work is vital for white folks to regain specificity, resist the uniformness of white supremacy, and learn how to be solidarity conspirators with our non-white siblings and all of creation.

Not only is this important for my own growth and learning as a vital part of my family, but also to challenge the pitfalls of white supremacy that force white folks to give up all cultural specificity for the privileges of supremacy and uniformness. One of the most powerful outcomes of this book is how I was challenged to connect with my family’s cultural roots in deeper and more intentional ways through history, food, and cultural practices. 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. It is a wonderful journey of reflection, discovery, and connection. The book is divided into 10 thematic sections with 10 deviations each. This episode of A Peoples Theology is sponsored by United Theological Seminary of the Twin. This enables folks to extend the learnings of the day into more rigorous/in-path/tangible ways throughout the day, as they are able. Randy Woodley Randy Woodley: How to Reconnect with Sacred Earth. Finally, each day ends with a call to action, further reflection, or meditation. Next comes a 2-3 page reflection on humanity, the land, and/or the living beings around us and how we can become more deeply connected with all creation. Randy Woodley has crafted this brilliant 100 day devotional for people to connect with their faith more deeply by finding ways to become more rooted in the Sacred Land from which we came, the Land on which we live, and the Land to which we will return.Įach day starts with a short quote from an important figure to help calm our minds and prepare for the day’s reflection. Hildegard’s Sanctuary and Christ Church Cathedral.Keetoowah Band Cherokee activity, author, and theologian Rev. NOTE: Zoom link will be emailed to registrants prior to event. Participants can acquire a copy of the book through these outlets: Amazon, Hager Books, Massey Books. Randy Woodley is an author, activist, farmer, scholar, speaker, and wisdom keeper. Through meditations and ideas for reflection and action, Randy guides us on a one-hundred-day journey to reconnect with the 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. Randy Woodley join us via Zoom for an introduction to his new book “Becoming Rooted: One Hundred Days of Reconnecting with Sacred Earth.” You are then invited to journey with the book over the summer months. We are honoured and delighted to have Rev.

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