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    Rescuing the Gospel from the Cowboys: A Native American Expression of the Jesus Way

    By Richard Twiss

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    The gospel of Jesus has not always been good news for Native Americans.

    The history of North America is marred by atrocities committed against Native peoples. Indigenous cultures were erased in the name of Christianity. As a result, to this day few Native Americans are followers of Jesus. However, despite the far-reaching effects of colonialism, some Natives have forged culturally authentic ways to follow the way of Jesus.

    In his final work, Richard Twiss provides a contextualized Indigenous expression of the Christian faith among the Native communities of North America. He surveys the painful, complicated history of Christian missions among Indigenous peoples and chronicles more hopeful visions of culturally contextual Native Christian faith. For Twiss, contextualization is not merely a formula or evangelistic strategy, but rather a relational process of theological and cultural reflection within a local community. Native leaders reframe the gospel narrative in light of post-colonization, reincorporating traditional practices and rituals while critiquing and correcting the assumptions of American Christian mythologies.

    Twiss gives voice to the stories of Native followers of Jesus, with perspectives on theology and spirituality plus concrete models for intercultural ministry. Future generations of Native followers of Jesus, and those working crossculturally with them, will be indebted to this work.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIndependent Publishers Group
    Release dateJun 9, 2015
    ISBN9780830898534
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    Richard Twiss

    Richard Twiss (1954–2013) was the founder and president of Wiconi International, a nonprofit that works for the betterment of Native people and communities by advancing culture, education, spirituality and social justice in the spirit of Jesus. A member of the Sicangu Lakota Oyate from the Rosebud Sioux Reservation in South Dakota, his native name was Taoyate Ob Najin, or "He Stands with His People." He is the author of One Church, Many Tribes. A widely traveled speaker, activist, educator, author and networker within the Native North American community, Twiss led Native American performing arts teams and addressed issues of spirituality and justice in hundreds of venues worldwide. He served as a local pastor for thirteen years, worked as national director of Native ministries for the International Bible Society and was the U.S. representative for the World Christian Gathering of Indigenous People Movement. A board member of CCDA (Christian Community Development Association), he was a cofounder of NAIITS (North American Institute for Indigenous Theological Studies) and Evangelicals for Justice. Twiss was committed to serving the local Native community in Portland, Oregon, as a respected spiritual leader with his wife Katherine, who continues his vision today. He was a member of the Portland Indian Leadership Roundtable and was a board member of the city's Native American Youth and Family Center. He also taught at Portland State University, Warner Pacific College and Sioux Falls and George Fox Seminaries. As a writer, Twiss contributed to The Justice Project, Holy Bible: Mosaic, Jamestown Remembered, Coming Together in the 21st Century and Common Prayer by Shane Claiborne, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove and Enuma Okoro. He was a contributing editor for Cultural Encounters and wrote a bi-monthly column in Charisma Magazine called Smoke Signals. He earned a doctorate of missiology in inter-cultural studies from Asbury Theological Seminary.

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      How do you worship the Christian God as a member of the group of original settlers of North America, descended from people who arrived long before the European immigrants arrived? Richard Twiss, or Tayoate Ob Najin (“He stands with his people”) to use his native name, has an answer. In these papers edited and published posthumously by his friends, he argues for inclusion of native languages and traditional rites like the use of tobacco, sweat lodges, drumming, chanting, and sacred dancing. Using these traditional means of worship to, as he puts it, “contextualize” the Gospel and remove some of the stigma of a religion forced on people by their conquerors. And as an antidote to “The hegemony of colonialism, Westernism, manifest destiny, ethnocentrism, paternalism and … other negative influences…” that Indians of North America have suffered.These ideas and practices were rejected by many of his fellow evangelicals as being too heathen to be called Christian. Dancing was especially irritating to some of them. A good bit of the book is his documentation of the rebuffs and shunning he received for his ideas from his fellow evangelicals, both native and white for his use of these in his ministry.