Reading the Bible against Plutocracy

ByBCM Online

This Nov 2025 Activist-Scholars Encounter program from the Center and Library for the Bible and Social Justice features a conversation with Ched and Chuck Collins.

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Ecojustice Theology: Prophetic Protest over Deforestation, Biblical and Contemporary

ByBCM Online

A look at Isaiah, the ancient imperial assault on the cedars of Lebanon, and today’s forest martyrs. A case study in ecocide, ecojustice and the Bible.

How Facing Our Mission Past Can Redeem Us All

How Facing Our Mission Past Can Redeem Us All

ByElaine Enns and Ched Myers

A recent program on Healing Haunted Histories that focuses on the impacts California Missions had upon Indigenous peoples; we did this ~50 min. presentation to support our friends at the Los Angeles Catholic Worker, who are pushing back on their Archdiocese’s sentimentalizing of this history and legacy.

A People’s Culture of the United States

ByChed Myers

By Ched Myers Sojourners, June, 1994.  2 pp. Populist culture and mass cultural are different beasts. We see this distinction in the difference between a joke passed around the office and an Eddie Murphy movie, between Irish music in the local pub and a Guns ‘N Roses concert, between a church quilting circle and Guess?…

Christmas and Consumerism: Four Biblical Reflections and Practical Responses

ByChed Myers

By Ched Myers With Matthew Colwell. Studies produced for the Center for a New American Dream. 11 pp. Few of us would argue with the complaint that Christmas has become too “commercialized.” It has deteriorated into an overheated festival of manic consumption in which the majority of the gifts are purchased by people who cannot…

“What is Radical Discipleship?”

“What is Radical Discipleship?”

ByChed Myers

What this week is really about is to commemorate 40 years of the Radical Discipleship movement.  Radical Discipleship is NOT a dope slogan, or a mobilizing soundbyte, or a hip brand, or an ironic twitter handle. 

Same-Sex Marriage: Two Reflections

ByChed Myers

By Ched Myers I. “Same Sex Marriage: A Sacramental Unity” (with Bill Wylie Kellermann, posted on SojoNet) and II. “Splitting the Difference? Same-Sex Marriage as a Justice Issue” unpublished. 13 pp. In 1963, William Stringfellow—Movement theologian, Sojourners mentor and gay man—had the following to say about mainline churches who were pondering whether to join the…