Discipleship as Reparative Justice
Sermon delivered to New Covenant, Church for the Nations in Santa Barbara, CA on Nov 29, 2020 by Elaine Enns.
Sermon delivered to New Covenant, Church for the Nations in Santa Barbara, CA on Nov 29, 2020 by Elaine Enns.
This is the second of a series of commentaries on Lukan Gospel readings that lie at the intersection of the Year C Revised Common Lectionary and texts I’ve explored in Healing Affluenza and Resisting Patriarchy: Luke’s Jesus and Sabbath Economics.
by Ched Myers Part Two of an essay published in: Theology and the Crisis of Engagement: Essays in Honor of Lee Cormie, edited by J. Nowers and N. Medina (Eugene:Pickwick Publications, 2013). 11 pp. We live in a world in which the social architecture of functional segregation and inequality persists. Divisions of race, class and…
The post discusses Palm Sunday as a significant closure to Lent, emphasizing its historical and contemporary implications of public liturgy for justice in society. It reflects on Jesus’ journey to Jerusalem as subversive against occupying powers and shares modern practices of reclaiming Palm Sunday through public demonstrations and calls for social justice.
by Elaine Enns Intotemak #49: “Yours, Mine, Ours: Unravelling the Doctrine of Discovery,” Mennonite Church Canada, Fall 2016, pp. 138-142, with Ched Myers The DOD’s tapestry of lies continues to both shape and shatter our identities. This study looks at Colossians understanding of discipleship as defecting from a culture of lies about the world and…
By Ched Myers The Witness, April, 1995. 4 pp. When I reached Kaho’ olawe, I kissed the ground.Through my work with indigenous people throughout the Pacific, which had focused on their struggles for self-determination and particularly their struggles around issues of land and land rights, I’d developed a fairly keen sense of the pain that…
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