From Cricket Media, this is unholyer than now. I'm your host Philip Picardy.

Next week, maybe you're observing a little holiday known as Thanksgiving.

And that's cool! I hope you get full, drink lots and are

married with friends. I also hope you stick it to any Trump supporting relatives if

you so choose. Thanksgiving is, as you know, a pretty complicated holiday.

It is effectively a day that elevates revisionist

history about American genocide. What is less well known, even in the modern, more accurate

retellings of Thanksgiving, is religion's deliberate and explicit role in colonization,

and just how much Christianity was used to justify the murder, rape, torture,

and marginalization of indigenous peoples.

Of course, we are all still living with the remnants of that legacy today.

This complicated legacy is part of the backdrop to a recent book called Native, identity belonging

and rediscovering God by Caitlin Curtis

Caitlin is a faith leader in storyteller who has worked to help decolonize

Christianity even if as she's come to realize she's not sure that's entirely possible at all. I got to speak to Caitlin about her

relationship to Christianity, how it evolved when she tapped more into her indigenous roots

and what it means to be a good Christian in our modern world.

I hope our talk gives you something to think about as many of us head into our own celebrations next week.

Oftentimes, when we talk about Thanksgiving in this way, people get the wrong idea,

that maybe we're saying that you shouldn't celebrate. And let me just say you can do

whatever you choose. I'm not here to tell you one way or the other or to pass judgment. I just hope that this

conversation helps give you a better

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