Articles written by Elaine Enns and/or Ched Myers – usually from print or online publications which are published elsewhere.
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 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…
By Ched Myers Sojourners, Oct, 1989. [Reprinted in Pilgrims and Seekers: Sainst Without Pedestals. Eerie: Pax Christi, 1995.] 2 pp. Sometimes the advent of death is like a thief in the night, too. Though we are surrounded by its presence daily, on the mean streets of our cities and in the countryside of the imperial…
Daniel Berrigan’s foreword to the original 1988 publication of Binding the Strong Man. Full article: Foreword to BTSM by Daniel Berrigan SKU: 88-1-F
By Ched Myers Sojourners, May. [Reprinted in The Rise of Christian Conscience, San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1987.] 6 pp. Civil disobedience as a political tactic is a relatively recent genesis, but resistance to human sovereigns is as old as civilization itself. In the ancient world, this resistance usually took the forms of refusal to…
By Ched Myers Christian Century, Sept 16. [Repr. in Border Regions of Faith: An Anthology of Religion and Social Change, ed. by K. Aman, Orbis, 1987.] 5 pp. On a clear, brisk predawn September morning in 1979, two dozen Christians gathered at the eastern edge of the sprawling Rocky Flats nuclear weapons trigger plant near…