Articles written by Elaine Enns and/or Ched Myers – usually from print or online publications which are published elsewhere.
By Ched Myers The Living Pulpit, pp 28-31. 7 pp. “THE VOCABULARY OF CHRISTIAN FAITH SUFFERS from misunderstanding at every turn,” writes Canadian theologian Douglas John Hall, “but no one term is as badly understood in both society and church as the little word, ‘sin’.” Most modern critics of Christianity would concur. Dour Christian discourses…
By Ched Myers A sermon delivered at Greenbelt Festival, UK, August. 4, 2004. 4 pp. To the hardworking organizers of this amazing Greenbelt gathering; to the campers soldiering through the mud; to all the beautiful families, teenagers, and elders; to the artists and musicians andpoets—and all of us who wish we were; to the crews…
By Ched Myers Priests and People (England). 5 pp. “He told them to give her something to eat” (Mark 5:43.) This curiously mundane instruction represents the conclusion to Jesus’ most dramatic healing in Mark’s gospel. He has just raised a young girl from the dead, and members of her household are still reeling from astonishment….
By Ched Myers I. “Same Sex Marriage: A Sacramental Unity” (with Bill Wylie Kellermann, posted on SojoNet) and II. “Splitting the Difference? Same-Sex Marriage as a Justice Issue” unpublished. 13 pp. In 1963, William Stringfellow—Movement theologian, Sojourners mentor and gay man—had the following to say about mainline churches who were pondering whether to join the…
By Ched Myers Sojourners, March. 2004 5pp Origin stories matter. Our relationships with one another, God, and the Earth are deeply shaped by them. For most of human history on the planet, the various myths of beginnings told diverse stories of how God or the gods placed humans in a created world for vocational purposes….
By Ched Myers Entries in The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature. Edited by Bron Taylor. NY: Continuum. 9 pp. The Fall story of Genesis 1-11 is not only a theological text. It is also an etiological narrative (a story about origins) concerning the rise of civilization in the late Neolithic period. Since the mid-19th century…
By Ched Myers The Catholic Agitator. 6 pp. Let me begin by putting things plainly. None of us would be gathered here—neither Catholic Workers nor members of the Immaculate Heart of Mary nor any of us other assorted feral Christians—were it not for Dan’s showing and telling of the gospel. The political spaces he opened…
By Ched Myers The Living Pulpit. 5 pp. Mark’s gospel portrays Jesus interacting with children in two vignettes that appear close to each other (Mk 9:36-37 and 10:13-16) in a sequence of teaching episodes I call the “discipleship catechism” (1988:235ff). Both episodes begin with almost identical stage directions (Jesus “takes them in his arms,” using…
By Ched Myers Mennonite Conciliation Quarterly, Winter. 4 pp. Elaine: Ched and I met at a peacemaking conference in 1997 where both of us were speaking. We sat in on each other’s sessions, appreciated each other’s work and began an interesting dialogue concerning how best to mitigate violence in our society. What we discovered was…
By Ched Myers Chapter in: Prophecy and Passion: Essays in Honour of Athol Gill, edited by David Neville. Adelaide: Australian Theological Forum, pp. 273-299. 18 pp. I am among the many who are indebted to Athol Gill’s faithful advocacy for the fullness of the biblical good news. I remain deeply grateful for his theological mentoring…