From July 10-13 BCM and a local team hosted Fr. Emmanuel Asi of Maktaba-e-Anaveem PAK/People’s Forum for Contextual Theologies (right, a book launch at MAP). Asi is a leading promoter of liberation theology and women’s rights and empowerment throughout South Asia (see here and here). Andrew Jilani, a parishioner at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in…
Resources for Facilitation & Group Study of Healing Haunted Histories This new resource package aids facilitators and group participants to work a process of self-examination and action as outlined in Healing Haunted Histories: A Settler Discipleship of Decolonization. Learn more HERE
Throughlines: Healing Haunted Histories Study Guide for Groups is companion resource packet to help facilitators and group participants engage past and continuing harms of settler colonialism and Indigenous dispossession, and deepen practices of restorative solidarity through the lens of Healing Haunted Histories.
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…
 Last Friday was the Feast of La Virgen de Guadalupe. At right is a retablo, a hybrid style of indigenous artistry, centuries of Catholic iconography, and Spanish culture. Retablos are small oil paintings on tin, zinc, wood, or copper which were used in home altars to honor saints.  This one has hung in our…
Last Sunday after Pentecost, 2025 This Sunday is the last one in Year C; after this (and after Thanksgiving) comes the first Sunday in Advent for Year A. It’s been fun (if challenging) to blog weekly from texts and themes in HARP; starting next week we’ll return to blogging twice a month. We hope you…
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.
On February 17, 2025, we hosted the “Detox on President’s Day” webinar featuring Ched Myers discussing his book, Healing Affluenza and Resisting Plutocracy, alongside an interview with Chuck Collins, a prominent critic of plutocracy. Cover artist Ted Lyddon Hatten also shared insights about the book’s artwork.
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.
The following post is an important analysis from our friend Jerry Taylor about white supremacy and the MAGA movement. It is an urgent appeal to white Christians in these remaining days leading up to the election