Steven Charleston

May 9, 2024 | christiancentury.org | Steven Charleston |Emily Raboteau |Andrew Thompson |Timothy Morton

We Survived the End of the World: Lessons from Native America on Apocalypse and HopeBy Steven Charleston Broadleaf BooksFor those who, like me, live with the constant underlying fear of a climate apocalypse, Steven Charleston offers wisdom and a measure of hope. An Episcopal bishop and Choctaw elder, Charleston is widely known for the daily spiritual reflections he posts on Facebook, which resulted in his books Spirit Wheel and Ladder to the Light.

Sep 28, 2023 | livinglutheran.org | Steven Charleston |Jim Jones

Editor’s note: This modified excerpt from Steven Charleston’s We Survived the End of the World: Lessons From Native America on Apocalypse and Hope (Broadleaf Books, 2023) is reprinted with permission. The Native Hopi tradition, along with that of all Indigenous people, is living proof that human beings can live in a loving relationship with the earth. The benefits of that balanced relationship are clear. The earth can provide enough for all to share. Environmental apocalypse can be averted.

Sep 19, 2023 | broadleafbooks.com | Steven Charleston

From the moment European settlers reached these shores, the American apocalypse began. But Native Americans did not vanish. Apocalypse did not fully destroy them, and it doesn't have to destroy us. Pandemics and war, social turmoil and corrupt governments, natural disasters and environmental collapse--it's hard not to watch the signs of the times and feel afraid. But we can journey through that fear to find hope.

Aug 24, 2023 | spiritualityandpractice.com | Steven Charleston

Charleston, who serves as serves as the theologian in residence at Berkeley Divinity School at Yale University, is one of the most prolific Native American authors of spirituality and spiritual practice. This book has grown out of “the idea that people can survive an apocalypse” — a topic that a Native elder knows very well indeed. In this regard, Charleston’s book reminded us of one published in 1995: The Jew in the Lotus, by Rodger Kamenetz.

Aug 24, 2023 | spiritualityandpractice.com | Steven Charleston

β€œTo talk about the way fear operates within cultures is uncomfortable, painful, and even dangerous. Yet if we want to avoid repeating history, it is a challenge we must accept. To reconcile the emotional apartheid of colonialism, we must find a sliver of common ground on which both the abused and abuser may stand together in the full light of truth and justice.