Articles written by Elaine Enns and/or Ched Myers – usually from print or online publications which are published elsewhere.
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…
by Elaine Enns Geez, Fall 2021 In public school, I learned that Canada had been “kinder” to Indigenous peoples compared to the U.S., evidenced by the relative lack of “Indian Wars.” Nineteenth century government policies, however, tell a different story.
As people of faith, how do we heal family histories entangled with colonization? By Elaine Enns Sojourners, January 2021, pp 30-33 A few years ago, Ched Myers and I discovered this graffiti in my old suburban neighborhood in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, scrawled across a fence just a block from where I grew up: “… as long…
by Ched Myers Direction V49 no.1 (2020) The realities of climate chaos hit me personally and hard in December 2017 with the Thomas Fire. California’s largest wildfire to that date, scorching 80 percent of our Ventura River watershed, it was an apocalyptic unveiling, the kind shared by survivors of hurricanes the same year in Houston…
by Ched Myers The Christian Century, September 3, 2019 In Luke’s post-resurrection appearances, the disciples have to reckon with the traumatic somatic. Almost 65 years ago, Mamie Till-Mobley decided to have an open casket at the funeral of her murdered son Emmett Till. Weeks before, this young mother from the south side of Chicago had…
by Ched Myers Sojourners, August 2018 2pp Christians and anarchists are both part of today’s activist mix, and should be in conversation. Full Article: Skeptical of the State? SKU: 18-1-F
The “Asistencia Santa Gertrudis” (named after Saint Gertrude the Great, a favorite of medieval Iberian Catholics; see here) was an outlying chapel from Mission San Buenaventura. Records indicate it was constructed sometime between 1804-08. In our watershed, along Ventura Ave., is an obscure roadside memorial to this long-disappeared structure. It “served the Indians in the early days,” says the plaque…
by Elaine Enns Sojourners, October 2017 There is no place in North America that does not have an Indigenous history prior to European colonization. This article briefly describes history of Indigenous Peoples’ day and its impact; names some of the restorative solidarity work settlers are doing and wrestles with deeper issues of settler privilege, self-justifying…
by Elaine Enns Intotemak #49: “Yours, Mine, Ours: Unravelling the Doctrine of Discovery,” Mennonite Church Canada, Fall 2016, pp. 138-142, with Ched Myers The DOD’s tapestry of lies continues to both shape and shatter our identities. This study looks at Colossians understanding of discipleship as defecting from a culture of lies about the world and…