Most of my life, I wanted absolutely nothing to do with Christianity, Christians or the Christian practice because of the historical oppression committed against Native/Indigenous people by the institutional Church. My former boss used to joke, seriously calling it "500 years of bad haircuts."

Boarding schools, forced relocation to the worst possible desolate land, sexual abuse from some Catholic soothsayers, physical and mental abuse from missionaries, cultural genocide-you name it- I swore that I would die before I ever became a believer.

I practiced Buddhist Meditation, resea...