Last week the wonderful Janet Wolf invited us to send a message to our friend and mentor Marion Wright Edelman for her 85th birthday on June 6th. Here’s what I wrote:  Dearest Marion:  We have so missed seeing you each summer at the Proctor Institute; the last  time was, 2019, pre-Covid! I want you to…
Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary – Indigenous Study Committee Co-sponsored by the Center for Ecological Regeneration and the Stead Center for Ethics and Values in support of Garrett’s Indigenous Study Committee. “Building Capacity for a Discipleship of Decolonization: Frameworks and Practices for Reparative Justice” Elaine Enns and Ched Myers introduced the Garrett community to the model…
United Church of Canada Elaine and Ched took a brief tour of their book, Healing Haunted Histories, and shared the questions and reflections that helped to frame their exploration of family histories, and how they intersect with colonialism, and their impact on contemporary discipleship. Note: Elaine & Ched begin their comments at 4:00 and conclude…
The Bartcast Welcome to the Bartcast – the occasional podcast from Bartimaeus Cooperative Ministries. Posted here are recent and recorded talks and sermons by and interviews with Elaine and Ched and friends. Episodes are listed (in order of most recent) below.
– an informal conversation between Elaine and gkisedtanamoogk (Mashpee Wampanoag) gkisedtanamoogk (it/thing) is Wampanoag and served on the Maine Wabanaki-State Child Welfare Truth and Reconciliation Commission – one of the many creative ways it strives to bridge the socio-political polarization of the Indigenous Nations of Turtle Island and the newcomer nation-states of North America. Elaine…
Ched’s short (11 min) video tribute to Norman Gottwald was used at a memorial session at the Society of Biblical Literature annual meeting in Denver, in November 2022.
by Ched Myers (BCM ENews, October, 2022) Luke’s middle part (roughly chapters 9-19) is called by scholars the “Special Section” because it mostly consists of uniquely Lukan material. The backbone of this sequence’s architecture is a remarkable series of stories about rich men. They articulate a searing critique of “Affluenza,” but culminate in the surprising…
by Elaine Enns and Ched Myers Sojourners, August 2022, pp 32-37 In April [2022], Pope Francis made a long-awaited apology to a Canadian delegation of Inuit, First Nations, and Metis leaders at the Vatican for the “deplorable” violations children suffered at Catholic-run Indian ResÂidential Schools for more than a cenÂtury. The pope committed to come…
This video is a edited version of the talk Rose Berger gave at the Church of the Foothills UCC in Ventura, CA. The original recording is here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KvsQFwuXjE From the CoF recording:On July 10, 2022, Rose Marie Berger, senior editor at Sojourners magazine and veteran Catholic peace and justice activist, offered a short presentation followed…
On Memorial Day 2022, Elaine & Ched interviewed Rose Berger, Senior Editor at Sojourners Magazine and veteran Catholic peace and justice activist. Rose was 48 hours back from a week-long international, interreligious Peace Delegation to Ukraine—the first such group to visit Kyiv since the Russian invasion began on Feb 24, 2022. The religious leaders visited…