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Title: Whiteman's Gospel by Craig Stephen Smith, Craig Smith ISBN: 0-920379-12-5 Publisher: Indian Life Ministries Pub. Date: 01 June, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Whiteman's Gospel & Reconciliation
Comment: Reconciliation is a key theme in Craig Smith's "Whiteman's Gospel." Pay particular attention to Chapter 3, "Christianity & Indian History." I was so moved by this chapter several years ago that it inspired me to write my own book. Very little is written about what the Church has done to Indian people. When we think of atrocities that were experienced by Native Americans, we tend to think that it was primarily the U.S. government that was responsible.
Such was not the case, for in many instances, the Church has been responsible for genocide, sexual abuse, and kidnapping. We must face up to these facts before reconciliation can begin, and Mr. Smith's book accomplishes just that.
I speak not as an outsider but as a fellow minister to Native Americans. For three years I have worked among the Omaha and Winnebago Tribes and I can tell you that "Whiteman's Gospel" is very factual, relevant, and much needed. Indian people rank at the bottom in academics, their young people commit suicide at rates 5 times higher than the general population, and medical facilites are either non-existent, or in disrepair. Clearly, these people are in distress and only the Church can meet many of their needs. Craig Smith's book makes those needs known.
If you don't know anything about Native American ministry, then "Whiteman's Gospel" is a book that you must read.
Rating: 5
Summary: Best Book on Native American Christians Today
Comment: I am not Native American. I am a Christian. This is the best book I have read that deals with problems in the dominant culture's church as well as the specific issues in the Native American church.
I was convicted and moved deeply. Pastor Smith gives a messege of hope and a future that most today reject. Even though the dominant white (Anglo) church has made many grievous errors in it's past, there is till hope for the people that has been hurt, oh so deeply, by the unbiblical ways of my own forefathers.
Every non-native needs to read this book to see just how wrong the church has historically been and every Native American needs to read this book to see that there is still hope after all the damage had been done.
We can not undo the damage done. But, we can move forward as the Lord would have intended in the first place. Reader, beware. Your cultural biases will be challenged and your belief systems will change dramatically. Praise God for men like Pastor Smith. In these last days many more like him are needed if any sanity is to come out of the horrors of the past.
This is an absolute must read for ALL Christians.
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Title: One Church, Many Tribes : Following Jesus the Way God Made You by Richard Twiss, John Dawson ISBN: 0830725458 Publisher: Regal Books Pub. Date: August, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.99 |
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Title: Grieving Indian by Life Ministries Indian ISBN: 0920379079 Publisher: Intertribal Christian Communication Pub. Date: 01 June, 1988 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown ISBN: 0805066691 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: 23 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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