Eloheh Indigenous Center for Earth Justice

07/22/2026

“…this book matters because it arrives at precisely the moment the churches of the Americas most need its prophetic witness.

Across America, Christianity is undergoing a profound reckoning. Institutional decline, the rise of Christian nationalism, renewed awareness of colonial violence, ecological crisis, racial injustice, and widespread distrust of religious authority have collectively exposed deep fractures within the Christian imagination. Increasingly, thoughtful Christians are asking not simply whether the church has failed, but whether the theological frameworks inherited from Western Christendom have themselves contributed to those failures. Put differently, many are discovering that what they once assumed to be the gospel may, in fact, have been a culturally conditioned expression of Christianity deeply intertwined with empire.

Woodley refuses both despair and nostalgia. He neither calls for abandoning the Jesus Way nor for recovering some imagined golden age. Instead, Woodley offers something far more demanding: an invitation to distinguish between Jesus and the civilization that came to bear Christ’s name.“ —Dwight J. Friesen

07/14/2026

Jesus never intended to start a religion that would justify stealing land, enslaving people, or destroying creation. So how did we get here?

In How Western Christianity Got It Wrong, acclaimed author Randy Woodley, of mixed white and Native American heritage, traces how a brown man from Nazareth who never lost his connection to the whole community of creation became the poster child for empire-building and environmental destruction. The faith that bears his name crafted theologies that rationalize greed, violence, and colonization—everything Jesus actually opposed.

Woodley exposes the ideas that poisoned Christianity’s well, how the Western church won a monopoly on sin and salvation, and how violent atonement theories replaced the healing message Jesus lived. Drawing on Indigenous wisdom that was flourishing on Turtle Island long before missionaries arrived, Woodley reveals what Jesus’s liberating message looks like when freed from imperial frameworks.

Picture communities where creation is family, not commodity. Where healing happens through relationship, not transaction. Where Creator speaks through many voices and welcomes all who walk in love. This is the Jesus Way as it was meant to be—not a system of control but a path of wholeness.

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02/13/2026

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02/09/2026

We are fighting our county for the right to practice our Indigenous spirituality on our own land. Please help if you are able.

Defend Indigenous Religious FreedomHelp Eloheh Practice Their Faith on Their Own LandEloheh Indigenous Center for Earth Justice needs to raise $16,000 in legal fees to fight a county decision that prevents them from practicing Indigenous spirituality on their own ten-acre teaching farm in Oregon. Yo...

01/31/2026

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On Thursday, February 12, 2026, @ 10:00 AM, Randy & Edith Woodley are appealing certain restrictions against Eloheh before the Yamhill County Board of Commis...

12/17/2025

Look what you did!!! We’re at $31,767 of our $40,000 goal! That’s 108 people who said yes.

Thank you. We mean that.

If we reach the goal by Christmas, Edith wins! Remember she believed you all would reach the goal by then? WE ARE ALMOST THERE!!! Some groups are already scheduled—Indigenous youth, work crews, school visits—and they will have a place to sleep. Edith and your generosity made a believer out of me. We have only $8,233. Remaining, with 8 days to get there. Please give what you can today. With your help, we’re gonna make it!

That’s the whole picture. You know what this place is and what we do. See the photo’s below of the two colors of yurts we will order. The blush, (pink?) is the ladies yurt.

If you’ve already given, you’re part of what’s rising here. If you’ve been meaning to, this is the time!

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12/02/2025

Can you help? Thanks!

12/02/2025

I’m writing to you from our teaching farm on a gray November afternoon, watching the solar panels finally go up on our education building. It’s been a long road to get here—one that required $7,500 in legal fees and the patience of Job to navigate county restrictions that seemed designed more to obstruct than to protect. But here we are, panels rising against the Oregon sky, another small victory in our ongoing work of earth justice.

Which brings me to why I’m writing today.
The same county that fought our solar permit has now informed us that no one can sleep in the Ag Building and Learning Center. Not the school groups who come to learn seed saving. Not the work crews who help us with controlled burns to restore our oak savannah. Not the young people who show up hungry to reconnect with the land and their Indigenous heritage.
For years, we’ve welcomed folks in our yurt and tipis—and we still do. But those few structures can’t hold the groups that need what we offer here at Eloheh. We need to expand our capacity, and we’re asking you to help us do it.

We’re raising $40,000 by Christmas to purchase two additional yurts that will allow us to continue hosting the work groups and schools who are essential to this mission of earth healing and cultural reclamation.

We’ve raised $4,640 or 12% toward our $40,000 goal. That’s 31 generous people who’ve said yes to this work. We’re grateful. 

Here’s where it gets tight: Pacific Yurts needs a $19,000 deposit by December 30th. The build can’t be scheduled until after the deposit, and that’s usually three to four weeks out. Our college work groups start showing up in March and they are invaluable to Eloheh’s progress. So we’ve got just under a month to raise the difference. We need roughly $14,360 more to hit that $19,000 deposit by December 30th. We’re going to need to put the pedal to the metal on this one. Help us reach our goal this giving Tuesday!

Randy and Edith Woodley, Co-sustainers

Eloheh Indigenous Center for Earth Justice and Eloheh Farm & Seeds

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