This presentation is a half hour reflection by Ched Myers, shared with New Covenant Worship Center in Santa Barbara in June of 2020, previewing a key aspect of Elaine and his forthcoming book Healing Haunted Histories (Cascade, 2020).
Published Dec 31, 2020
United Church of Canada Elaine and Ched took a brief tour of their book, Healing Haunted Histories, and shared the questions and reflections that helped to frame their exploration of family histories, and how they intersect with colonialism, and their impact on contemporary discipleship. Note: Elaine & Ched begin their comments at 4:00 and conclude…
Friends: Much of our attention has rightly been focused on ICE assaults in Minneapolis, as well as the amazing popular resistance there (including faith communities and many of our friends there, such as folks at Calvary Baptist Church, right). Please continue to pray and protest, that we might keep building momentum into a turning point…
By Ched Myers In Getting on Message: Challenging the Christian Right from the Heart of the Gospel, ed. by Peter Laarman, Boston: Beacon Press, 2006, pp. 51-67. 9 pp In the first-century Pax Romana, Christians had the difficult and demanding task of discerning how to cling to a radical ethos of life – symbolized preeminently…
by Ched Myers Cascade Books. 5 pp. The first time I heard Daniel Berrigan speak was early in 1976 at the Newman Center in Berkeley. National myths were already running hot and heavy during the country’s bicentennial, touting imperial grandeur wrapped in noble innocence. Dan, however, was talking about America in terms of Babylon, reading…
By Simon Barrow. British Journal of Theological Education (12:2) pp 95ff. 13 pp. Ched Myers is not a well-known figure in European church or academic circles. He is a forty-something fifth-generation Californian white male. Los Angeles, a city ‘oppressed by the hucksters of over-development and quick profit’ (his words) is the place he calls home….
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