CLIMBING STAIRS OF SUNLIGHT is volume three of four spiritual diaries kept by Steven Charleston, a Native American elder and the former Episcopal bishop of Alaska. Each day for four years he awoke at dawn with a spiritual insight which he wrote down and shared with a Facebook community that numbered over 10,000. That community continues to this day. These meditations were later collected into book form. Thousands of people around the world from all religious traditions continue to read them as words of inspiration, hope and healing. They are poetic and practical visions that speak to spiritual seekers in this time and place.
Steven Charleston is a citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, the first of the Five Tribes from the southeastern part of the United States to be removed on the "Trail of Tears". He is a bishop in the Episcopal Church with forty years of service in the ordained ministry. He has been the director of Native American ministries for his church, the first Native Bishop of Alaska, the President and Dean of a seminary in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a seminary professor. Currently he teaches at the Saint Paul School of Theology.
This is an amazing collections of Bishop Steven Charleston's mediations. For years when he got up in the morning he would write down his mediation for the day. I first became a fan of Bishop Charleston's when he came to our church just after "Bishop of Mars" was released. I am reading one of his mediations every morning. A great start to my day.