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
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.
by Elaine Enns and Ched Myers: list price $38.00Available now direct from Wipf & Stock in the US. In Canada, you can purchase from Common Word bookstore. In their latest book, Healing Haunted Histories: A Settler Discipleship of Decolonization, Elaine Enns and Ched Myers take on the “ghosts” of settler colonialism, Indigenous displacement, and white…
     Elaine and I take an annual summer sojourn to Saskatchewan to visit with friends, family and colleagues. We write this blog from her home-town of Saskatoon, and share below two highlights from this year’s adventure. Hosting a Canadian Debut of Cynthia Welik-Salgado’s “Beyond Borders”     Central to our time in SK was curating an…
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…
BCM board member John Parker, who’s been rolling with us since 1999, always has his finger on the pulse of faith and justice work in North Carolina. He alerted us to the May 18 issue of the Alban Weekly, which gave our work a shout out (emphasis ours): As ministers and congregations bask in…
Immigrant Rights through a Pentecost Lens:Divine Polyculture vs. Imperial Monoculture Publishing at the intersection of seminary, sanctuary, streets and soil has been at the heart of BCM’s work for almost thirty years. Because our books prior to HHH and HARP were similarly deep dives into faith and justice, they maintain their relevance, since threats to…
“Why do you stand looking into heaven?” (Acts 1:11) – Commemorating Nakba Day through the Lens of Taybeh Today (May 14) is Ascension Day, a Christian Feast Day not widely appreciated or understood. Readers of HARP can find a brief engagement with Luke’s account (p. 206), but I’d recommend a longer reflection from last year’s…
    Elaine and I returned a few days ago from a week back east, where we visited beloved elders in New England, then participated in a Public Theology & Public Policy Conference hosted by our friends Bishop William Barber and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove at Yale Divinity School. It was good to catch up with colleagues we…
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.
We invite you, in these hard days, to step away for a long weekend of replenishment through bible study, workshops, art, song, worship, ritual, campfires, imagining of new worlds, and the flowering beauty of the Pocono mountains in the spring.
Friends:    I first took a retreat at Our Lady of the Redwoods Abbey in Mendocino County, CA in the late 1970s. There I met two Cistercian monks who had deep impact on me. One was Mother Myriam Dardenne (1920–2010) , the first Abbess, who offered me the liberating affirmation that my study of scripture was a form…