Discipulado de la Cuenca: Una introduccion a la fe y la practica biorregionales
By Ched Myers $15.00 (San Jose, Costa Rica: Universidad Biblica Latinoamericana, 2017). Email us to PURCHASE An 80 page primer by Ched on Watershed Discipleship, translated into Spanish and published by UBL. Read about the workshop at the Universidad Bíblica Latinoamericana (UBL) in Costa Rica, where Josh and Grecia Lopez-Reyes represented Bartimaeus Cooperative Ministries (BCM) and…
Watershed Discipleship: Reinhabiting Bioregional Faith and Practice
This collection introduces and explores “watershed discipleship” as a critical, contextual, and constructive approach to ecological theology and practice. Features emerging voices from a generation that has grown up under the shadow of climate catastrophe. Watershed Discipleship is a “triple entendre” that recognizes we are in a watershed historical moment of crisis, focuses on our…
Watershed Now NC
Rev. Stuart Taylor is a longtime friend; he collaborated with me on “Say to This Mountain: Mark’s Story of Discipleship” (Orbis, 1994). A year and a half ago he participated in a week long workshop I led in Asheville, NC, not far from where he is based as a Presbyterian minister. He really drank the…
Redistribution with “Half a Heart”? Reflections on Acts 4:34-5:11
By Ched Myers (BCM E-News, Sept 2005, revised Oct 2015) Over the last 15 years of our Sabbath Economics education at BCM we’ve had a few individuals we worked with decide to divest of considerable personal wealth. To most affluent Christians such acts would seem to represent unwise “extremism” that should be treated suspiciously. Similarly,…
“What is Radical Discipleship?”
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.
The Water that Connects All Life: A Reflection on the Baptism of Jesus, by Jennifer Henry
Jennifer Henry is the Executive Director of Kairos Canada. This reflection was given at “Keepers of the Water: A Vigil of Lament and Celebration,” on January 14th, 2015 (“The Feast of the Baptism of Jesus”; readings: Genesis 1:1-5 and Mark 1:1-11). In these last days we have told the story of how Christ came into…
From “Creation Care to “Watershed Discipleship”: Re-Placing Ecological Theology and Practice
by Ched Myers Published in the Conrad Grebel Review, Vol. 32, NO. 3 Fall 2014, pp 250-275. 26 pages. In this article Ched explores how our theology might be re-placed in light of the arrival of glocbal ecological crisis: Thomas Meton’s dictum, uttered under the shadow of an earlier, equally foreboding apocalyptic moment (the 1962…