Articles written by Elaine Enns and/or Ched Myers – usually from print or online publications which are published elsewhere.
by Elaine Enns Consensus, Volume 37 Issue 1 Journeying Together toward Truth and Reconciliation Article 5 This article describes different ways trauma can be passed down intergenerationally (through both nurture and nature) and its impact on the communal narratives of a settler Mennonite community. The piece also includes factors of resilience. Full Article: Trauma and Memory:…
Article by Ched Myers (abstracted from the Introduction and Conclusion to Watershed Discipleship: Reinhabiting Bioregional Faith and Practice, 2016), 12 pages. Looks at basic philosophical and ecological concepts of WD. In the second part of the article, Myers explores incarnation, baptism and ecological readings of scripture, and suggests a vision of every local congregation as…
By Ched Myers (BCM E-News, Sept 2005, revised Oct 2015) Over the last 15 years of our Sabbath Economics education at BCM we’ve had a few individuals we worked with decide to divest of considerable personal wealth. To most affluent Christians such acts would seem to represent unwise “extremism” that should be treated suspiciously. Similarly,…
by Elaine Enns Geez, Fall 2015, 4 pp. Elaine summarizes two resistances in settler communities to building solidarity with Indigenous neighbors: selective memory and distortions in communal narratives. Full Article: Settler Response-Ability SKU: E15-2-Pa
by Elaine Enns Canadian Mennonite, Vol 19 Issue 5, March 2015 6 pp. What are barriers to Settler solidarity with Indigenous neighbors? This article outlines three prospects and three problems that Settler descendants need to address in order to embrace “restorative solidarity” that recognizes past and continuing injustices and seeks to make things right. Full…
by Ched Myers Published in the Conrad Grebel Review, Vol. 32, NO. 3 Fall 2014, pp 250-275. 26 pages. In this article Ched explores how our theology might be re-placed in light of the arrival of glocbal ecological crisis: Thomas Meton’s dictum, uttered under the shadow of an earlier, equally foreboding apocalyptic moment (the 1962…
Note: These comments were made to the Ecological Hermeneutics Section at the Society of Biblical Literature, Sat, Nov 22, 2014, as part of a Panel commemorating the 20th Anniversary of Bill McKibben’s The Comforting Whirlwind: God, Job and the Scale of Creation (Eerdmans, 1994; reprint Cowley, 2005). Biblical scholars (Barbara Rossing, Lutheran School of Theology…
by Ched Myers Missio Dei: A Journal of Missional Theology and Praxis 5, no. 2 (August 2014) Published online at missiodeijournal.com Water lies at the center of our Christian sign of baptism and our current ecological crises and, thus, deserves deeper theological treatment. This paper explores visions of “redemption as rehydration” in the prophetic literature, then…
by Ched Myers Sojourners, May. 2014 5pp In the face of ecocide, the choice before us is stark: discipleship or denial. Our history is increasingly hostage to a deep and broad ecological crisis. Stalking us for centuries, it is now upon us in the interlocking catastrophes of climate destruction, habitat degradation, species extinction, and resource…
by Elaine Enns With Ched Myers. A chapter in Bury the Dead: Death and Dying on the Radical Christian Left, Laurel Dykstra, ed., Cascade Books, 2013, 10 pp. More about the amazing community hospice effort that surrounded Ladon Sheats and accompanied this beloved mentor on his journey to the other side. Full Article: Caretaking the Gift: A Journey…