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…
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…
Friends: Much of our attention has rightly been focused on ICE assaults in Minneapolis, as well as the amazing popular resistance there (including faith communities and many of our friends there, such as folks at Calvary Baptist Church, right). Please continue to pray and protest, that we might keep building momentum into a turning point…
PODCASTS: Our friend Ragan Sutterfeld just released an hour-long interview he did late last year with the Ekklesia Project about the Bible, Christian Zionism and the war on Palestine. He talks with Ched and our Canadian colleague Sylvia Keesmaat (right). Check it out here. We’re getting to know young Sabeel activist theologian Thanh Nguyen; Ched…
Feast of Epiphany (January 6th, 2026) Thirty years ago, my then-young Jewish godson dubbed the Christmas season “the days of craze.” He wasn’t wrong: the consumer-industrial complex’s relentless seductive-compulsive huckstering drives us crazy by effectively drowning out the good (if subversive) news of Mary’s Magnificat and angelic pronouncements that God’s sovereignty trumps empire. Sadly, the…
 Last Friday was the Feast of La Virgen de Guadalupe. At right is a retablo, a hybrid style of indigenous artistry, centuries of Catholic iconography, and Spanish culture. Retablos are small oil paintings on tin, zinc, wood, or copper which were used in home altars to honor saints.  This one has hung in our…