The third of a four part series of talks delivered to the Wisconsin Council of Churches, Nov. 14-15, 2008, Stevens Point, WI. Each part is about 45 min. Reading Mark 1-3 through the lens of King and the Civil Rights Movement.
Originally published: Sep 22, 2010 | SKU: wisconsin2009
Myers brings a well-honed interpretive eye to a thematic study of Luke’s Gospel. He reads synoptically the crisis of socioeconomic disparity in Jesus’s world and ours, and proposes powerful analogies that can build social imagination and animate personal and political practices for systemic change and justice among communities of faith today.
In the wake of the challenging teachings of chapter 14, Luke’s story resets, with Jesus’s audience increasingly polarized between “tax collectors and sinners coming near to listen” and “Pharisees and scribes grumbling”
BCM board member John Parker, who’s been rolling with us since 1999, always has his finger on the pulse of faith and justice work in North Carolina. He alerted us to the May 18 issue of the Alban Weekly, which gave our work a shout out (emphasis ours): As ministers and congregations bask in…
By Ched Myers (Orbis, 1994). 2 pp. For too long, serious and critical Bible study in the First World has been equated almost exclusively with academic study of the Bible. This is not because ordinary people – particularly those identified with churches or synagogues –are incapable of reading the Bible seriously. Rather it is due…
By Ched Myers The Witness, Nov, 1994. 2 pp. There is a world of difference between costume and uniform in the context of public space. Costuming – through dress, mask or voice – seeks to make a cultural, sub-cultural or personal statement by challenging dominant cultural codes; in exercises image-ination. Uniforms seek to build self-…
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