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…
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 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.Â
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…
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…
Note: These comments were made to the Ecological Hermeneutics Section at the Society of Biblical Literature, Sat, Nov 22, 2014, as part of a Panel commemorating the 20th Anniversary of Bill McKibben’s The Comforting Whirlwind: God, Job and the Scale of Creation (Eerdmans, 1994; reprint Cowley, 2005). Biblical scholars (Barbara Rossing, Lutheran School of Theology…
Ched speaks about his life and conversion to “watershed discipleship” at Jesus Radicals conference in 2011: Part 1 Part 2
Lucas Land recently posted a video of a talk he gave on Watershed Discipleship: An Ethical/Theological Framework at Texas Lutheran University’s Krost Symposium on Environmental Justice on October 16, 2014. Watch the video here:
by Ched Myers Missio Dei: A Journal of Missional Theology and Praxis 5, no. 2 (August 2014) Published online at missiodeijournal.com Water lies at the center of our Christian sign of baptism and our current ecological crises and, thus, deserves deeper theological treatment. This paper explores visions of “redemption as rehydration” in the prophetic literature, then…
by Ched Myers Sojourners, May. 2014 5pp In the face of ecocide, the choice before us is stark: discipleship or denial. Our history is increasingly hostage to a deep and broad ecological crisis. Stalking us for centuries, it is now upon us in the interlocking catastrophes of climate destruction, habitat degradation, species extinction, and resource…