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…
by Ched Myers; Translated by H. Horne: $15.00 Email BCM to PURCHASE Spanish language edition of Say To This Mountain;Â Paper, 244 pp.(SEBILA, Universidad Biblica Latinoamericana, 2013.
by Ched Myers Sojourners, April 2012. Full Article:Â Everything will Live Where the River Goes: A Bible Study on Water, God, and Redemption SKU: L12-2-F
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…
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…
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:Â Sea Changes Pts I & II SKU: 12-4-Pb