by Ched Myers Part I of an essay published in: Theology and the Crisis of Engagement: Essays in Honor of Lee Cormie, edited by J. Nowers and N. Medina (Eugene:Pickwick Publications, 2013). 7pp. There have been few North American theologians in the past three decades who have seriously attempted to bridge the longstanding gulf that…
by Ched Myers Part Two of an essay published in: Theology and the Crisis of Engagement: Essays in Honor of Lee Cormie, edited by J. Nowers and N. Medina (Eugene:Pickwick Publications, 2013). 11 pp. We live in a world in which the social architecture of functional segregation and inequality persists. Divisions of race, class and…
by Ched Myers Edited version of a section in the forthcoming Eerdmans Reader in Contemporary Political Theology, edited by W. Cavanaugh and C. Hovey. 4 pp. Note: Twenty years ago I argued that the Cross of the nonviolent Jesus, who lived and died resisting empire and renewing Israel’s alternative social vision, represented a “stumbling block”…
by Ched Myers In Sojourners, 38:11, pp. 28ff. Reprinted in P. and S. Jung, Eds., Moral Issues & Christian responses (8th ed.). Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2012. Full Article:Â Pay Attention to the Birds: A Bible study on Luke 12, Ecology, and Economics SKU: L09-1-F
by Ched Myers With Elaine Enns. The Bechtel Lectures, March 26, 2009, Conrad Grebel University College. Published in The Conrad Grebel Review (27:2) Fall, pp 4-27. 21 pp. One of the central questions that faces Anabaptist identity in every generation is: “What does it mean today to be a Peace Church?” In this year’s Bechtel…
by Ched Myers With Elaine Enns. The Bechtel Lectures, March 27, Conrad Grebel University College. Published in The Conrad Grebel Review (27:2), pp 28-44. 13 pp. This lecture means to honor the peace and justice work of women, and we would like to begin by naming just two. One is the woman who was cleaning…
by Ched Myers Excerpt from: Searching for Meaning: An Introduction to Interpreting the N.T., edited by Paula Gooder, Westminster/John Knox/SPCK, pp. 160-162. 3 pp . Sociopolitical criticism (also know as socioeconomic criticism or political readings) draws on the insights of Liberation criticism to explore oppression and the use of power and, unlike liberation criticism, it…
By Elaine Enns With Ched Myers. Bechtel Lecture, part 1, Conrad Grebel Review, Fall 2009, 24 pp. Full Article:Â Ambassadors in Chains: Evangelizing the Powers SKU: E09-2-Pc
by Ched Myers A talk given to the Kairos Canada Gathering, June, 2009. 14 pp. I commend the Kairos planning team for choosing such a bold theme. Apocalyptic imagination is the great step-child of western culture, especially since the Age of Reason colonized our minds and hearts. Apocalyptic literature’s wild, visionary, almost shamanistic symbolism is…
by Ched Myers Talk at Faith, Ecology & Economy Conference, Washington DC. 20 pp. In the Fall 2003 issue of Business Ethics a thoughtful opinion piece appeared by progressive journalist William Greider. In a preview of his book The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to a Moral Economy, Greider wrote: Most Americans, I am convinced,…