Reading the Bible against Plutocracy
This Nov 2025 Activist-Scholars Encounter program from the Center and Library for the Bible and Social Justice features a conversation with Ched and Chuck Collins.
Detox on President’s Day Webinar with Chuck Collins
On February 17, 2025, we hosted the “Detox on President’s Day” webinar featuring Ched Myers discussing his book, Healing Affluenza and Resisting Plutocracy, alongside an interview with Chuck Collins, a prominent critic of plutocracy. Cover artist Ted Lyddon Hatten also shared insights about the book’s artwork.
Building Capacity for a Discipleship of Decolonization: Frameworks and Practices for Reparative Justice
Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary – Indigenous Study Committee Co-sponsored by the Center for Ecological Regeneration and the Stead Center for Ethics and Values in support of Garrett’s Indigenous Study Committee. “Building Capacity for a Discipleship of Decolonization: Frameworks and Practices for Reparative Justice” Elaine Enns and Ched Myers introduced the Garrett community to the model…
Placing Ourselves in Colonialism: Building Capacity for Our Discipleship of Decolonization
United Church of Canada Elaine and Ched took a brief tour of their book, Healing Haunted Histories, and shared the questions and reflections that helped to frame their exploration of family histories, and how they intersect with colonialism, and their impact on contemporary discipleship. Note: Elaine & Ched begin their comments at 4:00 and conclude…
Two Threads, One Tapestry: A Settler-Indigenous Conversation Restitching the Landlines, Bloodlines, and Songlines of History
– an informal conversation between Elaine and gkisedtanamoogk (Mashpee Wampanoag) gkisedtanamoogk (it/thing) is Wampanoag and served on the Maine Wabanaki-State Child Welfare Truth and Reconciliation Commission – one of the many creative ways it strives to bridge the socio-political polarization of the Indigenous Nations of Turtle Island and the newcomer nation-states of North America. Elaine…
Ched Myers tribute to Norman Gottwald
Ched’s short (11 min) video tribute to Norman Gottwald was used at a memorial session at the Society of Biblical Literature annual meeting in Denver, in November 2022.
Ukraine Pilgrimage 2022: Rose Berger at Church of Foothills
This video is a edited version of the talk Rose Berger gave at the Church of the Foothills UCC in Ventura, CA. The original recording is here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KvsQFwuXjE From the CoF recording:On July 10, 2022, Rose Marie Berger, senior editor at Sojourners magazine and veteran Catholic peace and justice activist, offered a short presentation followed…
Trauma, White Privilege, and Innocence: Mennonites and Settler Colonialism on the Canadian Prairies
Elaine Enns on: “Trauma, White Privilege, and Innocence: Mennonitesand Settler Colonialism on the Canadian Prairies”Recorded May 17, 2022. Delivered online to Free University of Amsterdam as part of a 7-part series on Mennonites and Innocence.
SA-I-GU 2022 Presentation and Panel
Last month (April 2022) Elaine & Ched teamed up with ReconciliAsian to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Los Angeles Uprising (as we did for the 25th anniversary in 2017). Watch the webinar we did with Sue Park Hur, David Moore and Daniela Lazaro-Manalo.
How Facing Our Mission Past Can Redeem Us All
A recent program on Healing Haunted Histories that focuses on the impacts California Missions had upon Indigenous peoples; we did this ~50 min. presentation to support our friends at the Los Angeles Catholic Worker, who are pushing back on their Archdiocese’s sentimentalizing of this history and legacy.