by Ched Myers A sermon given at St. Andrew’s College, Saskatoon, in March 2004. 6 pp. I suppose I could keep my sermon on this occasion short and to the point. As in: Congratulations. It’s about time. Now let’s get on with the work of living into what the moniker of “Affirming Ministry” really means…
by Ched Myers A talk given at Lenten Retreat, Knox Presbyterian, Pasadena, CA, March, 2009. 7 pp. THE CHURCH TRADITIONALLY inaugurates Lent by reflecting on the “wilderness temptations” of Jesus. This story is articulated in Mt 4:1-11 and Lk 4:1-13 (probably Q tradition). In preparation for his mission, Jesus follows a mysterious yet compelling calling…
by Elaine Enns and Ched Myers: $21.00 (incl US shipping) Both volumes can be purchased for $33.00 (incl US shipping) Email us to PURCHASE This volume offers three social-analytic models and nine profiles of contemporary practitioners of restorative justice and peacemaking. Paper, 190 pp, Orbis Books.
by Ched Myers and Elaine Enns: $21.00 (incl US shipping) Both volumes can be purchased for $33.00 (incl US shipping) Email BCM to PURCHASE This volume offers four N.T. studies on restorative justice and peacemaking (2 Cor 5-6; Mark 1-3; Matt 18; and Ephesians). Paper, 192 pp, Orbis Books.
Foreword by Obery Hendricks, New Preface by Ched Myers and Introduction by Sam Wells Orbis Books. 40 pp. Everyone can point to an event that has changed their lives forever. Encountering Binding the Strong Man was such an event for me. It caused a seismic shift in my thinking and forever changed the direction of…
by Ched Myers Published in: Leitfaden für ein künftiges Engagement für gerechten, levensförderlichen Frieden—Optionen zur Umstezung der Beschlusse von Freising und Porto Alegre, edited by Ulrich Duchrow and Martin Gück, Kairos Europa, 2008. 4 pp. The modern Western church’s functional ideas of “peace” have wandered far a field of the biblical meaning of shalom in…
by Ched Myers Published in Bartimaeus Cooperative Ministries E-News. 5 pp Pacific Life Community’s work of protest focuses on the human impact of Vandenburg Air Force Base (VAFB). I wish to locate this conversation in specific time and space, in order to call attention to the fact that the primal victims of the work done…
This is a combination of two pieces which were published in various contexts in 2006-7 Full Article HERE.
by Ched Myers Published by JustFaith Ministries’ Engaging Spiritualities “Bearings” Project. 6 pp. I want to begin with a story about my own call to incarnational discipleship. In 1976, I was a junior at the University of California at Berkeley. At 21, I was already disillusioned with both politics and religion. I was a new…
by Ched Myers Published online at http://www.wordandworld.org. 6 pp. I begin with an old story. There was a Levite from a village far away in the hill country of Ephraim who was traveling through Judah returning home. He and his party were near Jerusalem and it was getting late, and his companions said, “Let us…