Foreword to Daniel Berrigan’s Exodus: Let My People Go

by Ched Myers Cascade Books. 5 pp. The first time I heard Daniel Berrigan speak was early in 1976 at the Newman Center in Berkeley. National myths were already running hot and heavy during the country’s bicentennial, touting imperial grandeur wrapped in noble innocence. Dan, however, was talking about America in terms of Babylon, reading…

The Cedar Has Fallen! The Prophetic Word vs. Imperial Clear-Cutting

by Ched Myers A Chapter in Earth and Word: Classic Sermons on Saving the Plante, edited by David Rhoads, Continuum, pp 211-223. 8 pp. IN MID-FEBRUARY OF 2005 a 73-year old nun was murdered by ranchers near Anapu, Brazil because of her attempts to halt the illegal logging of the rainforest. Dorothy Stang, a Notre…

Las Posadas: Hospitality to Those Displaced by the Push and Pull of Empire

by Ched Myers A talk given at the “Posadas sin Fronteras” at the U.S. Mexico border, December 2006. 5 pp. I want to begin by honoring the two brothers we are remembering today. The late Franciscan Brother Ed Dunn was a gentle but strong presence in this movement, always looking for deeper solidarity with the…

Mark 13 in a Different Imperial Context

by Ched Myers A chapter in: Mark, Gospel of Action: Personal and Community Responses, edited by John Vincent, London:SPCK. 12 pp. Nearly two years after U.S. President George W. Bush declared the second war with Iraq officially over, British and American soldiers remain mired in an increasing violent and controversial occupation of that country. As…

Is the Spoil of the Poor in Our House? Isaiah 3 and Community Investing

by Ched Myers Ministry of Money E-News, Fall. 4 pp. The statistics on poverty in the global economy are grim. Half the world’s population (some 3 billion) lives on less than $2/day. The Gross Domestic Product of the poorest 48 nations is less than the combined wealth of the world’s 3 richest people. A billion…

Transfiguration and Disfiguration: Remembering August 6-9 and Ladon Sheats

by Ched Myers Bartimaeus Cooperative Ministries E-News, 2006. 3 pp. On Sunday, Aug 6th, fifty of us gathered in central California to remind ourselves that communion with the Divine must be linked to resistance to evil. Organized by Catholic Worker communities, the event celebrated the traditional Catholic Feast of the Transfiguration, and mourned Hiroshima Day,…

The Blood of the Martyrs: Tom Fox’s Nonviolent Witness

by Ched Myers From: Sojourners and “Two Martyrs Reflect on Anger and Justice” in Tom Fox was My Friend, edited by Chuck Fager. Fayetville, Kimo Press. 4 pp. “We have assumed the name of peacemakers, but we have been, by and large, unwilling to pay any significant price,” Daniel Berrigan wrote in the wake of…

“Surely this is the gate of heaven!!” The Bible and Earth Spirituality

By Ched Myers Bartimaeus Cooperative Ministries E-News. 7 pp. I didn’t grow up in the church. When I came to faith at age 18 I had no experience with the Bible, and I remember my first connection with it. I was reading about Jesus’ feeding with the loaves and fishes, and was excited by the…