By Ched Myers In Apostle of Peace: Essays in Honor of Daniel Berrigan, Orbis Books, 1996. 4 pp. I wish to reflect on Daniel Berrigan’s contribution to my understanding of how to reach and teach and live the Bible. If my appreciation seems like a eulogy, it is because I believe that good words about those…
By Ched Myers The Witness, April, 1995. 4 pp. When I reached Kaho’ olawe, I kissed the ground.Through my work with indigenous people throughout the Pacific, which had focused on their struggles for self-determination and particularly their struggles around issues of land and land rights, I’d developed a fairly keen sense of the pain that…
By Ched Myers The Witness, Nov, 1994. 2 pp. There is a world of difference between costume and uniform in the context of public space. Costuming – through dress, mask or voice – seeks to make a cultural, sub-cultural or personal statement by challenging dominant cultural codes; in exercises image-ination. Uniforms seek to build self-…
By Ched Myers Sojourners, June, 1994. 2 pp. Populist culture and mass cultural are different beasts. We see this distinction in the difference between a joke passed around the office and an Eddie Murphy movie, between Irish music in the local pub and a Guns ‘N Roses concert, between a church quilting circle and Guess?…
By Ched Myers (Orbis, 1994). 2 pp. For too long, serious and critical Bible study in the First World has been equated almost exclusively with academic study of the Bible. This is not because ordinary people – particularly those identified with churches or synagogues –are incapable of reading the Bible seriously. Rather it is due…
by Ched Myers: $33.00 Email BCM to PURCHASE This sequel to Binding the Strong Man comprehensively articulates a North American theology of liberation, justice and peace. Paper, 495pp, bibliography & index. Orbis Books.
By Ched Myers In Theology Without Foundations: Religious Practice and the Future of Theological Truth, ed. by Stanley Hauerwas, Nancey Murphy and Mark Nation, Nashville: Abingdon, 1994. 14 pp. At a crucial juncture in his mission, Mark’s Jesus was confronted by members of the ruling Jerusalem establishment, and who demanded that present his political credentials:…
By Ched Myers The Witness, April, 1993. 3 pp. Enter again the sacred circle of Story. Begin again at the end, as we are ever invited to do.Peter had followed Jesus at a distance, right into the courtyard of the high priest (Mk 14:54). Twilight. The fisherman finds himself standing in the palace courtyard of…
By Ched Myers In The Bible and Liberation: Political and Social Hermeneutics, revised ed., edited by N. Gottwald and R. Horsley (Orbis, 1993), pp 428-452. 13 pp. The purpose of this chapter is to summarize the socioliterary evidence that has been yielded by my reading of the gospel text, and to organize it into a…
By Ched Myers The Witness, September 1992. 3 pp. What if we held a war and everybody came? This, it seems, is what we have just witnessed. Those who tried to raise their voices against Desert Storm were officially silenced, and the rest were officially silent, successfully manipulated yet again by opportunistic politicians. Silent in…