#stevencharleston — Public Fediverse posts

Following up (sort of?) on this, we’re reading The Four #VisionQuests of #Jesus by #StevenCharleston as an interlude book in #EfM this week. I’ve found it to be a fascinating read that truly speaks to me (which makes me uncomfortable because I am a product of the #WASP culture that has all but eliminated the #NativeAmerican & #FirstNations people from this continent & I can’t help wondering if this is some kind of cultural appropriation on my part).

I’m in #TheWilderness chapter & the comments regarding self & #Community are particularly striking. Especially since community seems to be in short supply these days. When we forget to be #generous & #merciful we stop being a community. Our #faith & identity suffers. Native Americans know this. “Losing the ‘we’ to only become an ‘I’ was worse than death. It meant becoming a non-human. It was to be consigned to an eternal limbo from which there was no escape in either life or death.” (p. 102) Is this where we are headed?

Following up (sort of?) on this, we’re reading The Four #VisionQuests of #Jesus by #StevenCharleston as an interlude book in #EfM this week. I’ve found it to be a fascinating read that truly speaks to me (which makes me uncomfortable because I am a product of the #WASP culture that has all but eliminated the #NativeAmerican & #FirstNations people from this continent & I can’t help wondering if this is some kind of cultural appropriation on my part).

I’m in #TheWilderness chapter & the comments regarding self & #Community are particularly striking. Especially since community seems to be in short supply these days. When we forget to be #generous & #merciful we stop being a community. Our #faith & identity suffers. Native Americans know this. “Losing the ‘we’ to only become an ‘I’ was worse than death. It meant becoming a non-human. It was to be consigned to an eternal limbo from which there was no escape in either life or death.” (p. 102) Is this where we are headed?

Following up (sort of?) on this, we’re reading The Four #VisionQuests of #Jesus by #StevenCharleston as an interlude book in #EfM this week. I’ve found it to be a fascinating read that truly speaks to me (which makes me uncomfortable because I am a product of the #WASP culture that has all but eliminated the #NativeAmerican & #FirstNations people from this continent & I can’t help wondering if this is some kind of cultural appropriation on my part).

I’m in #TheWilderness chapter & the comments regarding self & #Community are particularly striking. Especially since community seems to be in short supply these days. When we forget to be #generous & #merciful we stop being a community. Our #faith & identity suffers. Native Americans know this. “Losing the ‘we’ to only become an ‘I’ was worse than death. It meant becoming a non-human. It was to be consigned to an eternal limbo from which there was no escape in either life or death.” (p. 102) Is this where we are headed?

Following up (sort of?) on this, we’re reading The Four #VisionQuests of #Jesus by #StevenCharleston as an interlude book in #EfM this week. I’ve found it to be a fascinating read that truly speaks to me (which makes me uncomfortable because I am a product of the #WASP culture that has all but eliminated the #NativeAmerican & #FirstNations people from this continent & I can’t help wondering if this is some kind of cultural appropriation on my part).

I’m in #TheWilderness chapter & the comments regarding self & #Community are particularly striking. Especially since community seems to be in short supply these days. When we forget to be #generous & #merciful we stop being a community. Our #faith & identity suffers. Native Americans know this. “Losing the ‘we’ to only become an ‘I’ was worse than death. It meant becoming a non-human. It was to be consigned to an eternal limbo from which there was no escape in either life or death.” (p. 102) Is this where we are headed?