FAITH AT WORK--
WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE
Steven Charleston's Facebook Status Update
Wednesday, May 22, 2013 at 8:35pm
I had a brief lesson in advanced spirituality yesterday from two of the best teachers I have encountered in a long time. They were plumbers who had come to my house to work in my bathroom. They were honest, hard-working people who saw their vocation as a calling to serve others, to mend what is broken, to treat people fairly, to speak kindly to all they met. I was grateful, not only for their help, but for their lesson. They reminded me how faith looks when it is working. They reminded me that truth is best taught by those who live it.
Steven Charleston is a citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. He comes from a family with a long history of service in the Native American community. His great-grandfather and grandfather were both ordained pastors who preached in their native language in rural communities throughout the state. Following in their footsteps, Steven was ordained at Wakpala, South Dakota on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation.
Steven was the national director for Native American ministries in the Episcopal Church, a tenured professor of Systematic Theology at Luther Seminary, the Bishop of Alaska, and the President and Dean of the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Currently he teaches at the Saint Paul School of Theology at Oklahoma City University.
Steven was the national director for Native American ministries in the Episcopal Church, a tenured professor of Systematic Theology at Luther Seminary, the Bishop of Alaska, and the President and Dean of the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Currently he teaches at the Saint Paul School of Theology at Oklahoma City University.
