From Capital to Community: Discipleship as Defection in Jesus’ Parable about a ‘Manager of Injustice’ (Luke 16:1-13)

by Ched Myers This essay is part of Radical Christian Voices & Practice, an academic festschrift honoring our friend Dr. Christopher Rowland, a leading historian and theologian of radical Christian movements based in England.  My essay looks at how Luke’s story of the so-called “unfaithful steward” is actually about someone who realizes he is caught in a socio-economic system…

Our God is Undocumented: Biblical Faith and Immigrant Justice

Our God is Undocumented: Biblical Faith and Immigrant Justice

By Ched Myers and Matthew Colwell: $25.00 Email BCM to PURCHASE Orbis Books, 228 pp., paperback, with index and bibliography. “The stranger has not lodged in the street; I have opened my doors to the sojourner.” (Job 31:32) The perspective of the immigrant offers fresh eyes for reading the Bible, which in turns offers a…

Sea Changes Pts I & II

by Ched Myers “Jesus’ Call to Discipleship as Resistance to Colonizing Economics” and “Re-Imaginng Exodus Liberation as an ‘Exorcism’ of Imperial Militarism” in Challenging Empire: God, Faithfulness and Resistance. Ed. by N. Ateek, C. Duaybis and M. Tobin. Jerusalem: SabeelEcumenical Liberation Theology center, pp. 107-125. Full Article: Sea Changes Pts I & II SKU: 12-4-Pb