Bartcast
The Bartcast
Welcome to the Bartcast – the occasional podcast from Bartimaeus Cooperative Ministries. Posted here are recent and recorded talks and sermons by and interviews with Elaine and Ched and friends.
Episodes are listed (in order of most recent) below.
Bartcast 59: Rose Berger; Interfaith Delgation to Ukraine
On Memorial Day 2022, Elaine & Ched interviewed Rose Berger, Senior Editor at Sojourners Magazine and veteran Catholic peace and justice activist. Rose was 48 hours back from a week-long international, interreligious Peace Delegation to Ukraine—the first such group to…
Bartcast 58: Activists of Color and Indigenous Solidarity
Bartcast 58, recorded Feb 14 2021, is another presentation from last year’s BKI: “ACTIVISTS OF COLOR AND INDIGENOUS SOLIDARITY” is a wide-ranging panel conversation between Rev. Sue Park Hur (left), Dr. Jimi Valiente-Neighbours (second from left), and Linda QuiQuivix (second…
Bartcast 57: Alison McCrary – “Incarnational Engagement with Restorative Solidarity: Contemplative Activism, Community Justice Work, and Holy Resistance in and between Red, Black, and Brown Communities”
Recorded live at the 2021 Bartimaeus Kinsler Institute, Sat Feb 13, 2021.Alison McCrary is a tribal citizen of the Ani-Yun-Wiya United Cherokee Nation, a social justice movement lawyer, Catholic activist, restorative justice practitioner and an internationally sought-after speaker on social…
Bartcast 56: CLBSJ 10th Anniversary – HHH Bible Study
Recorded July 15, 2021. Elaine and Ched offer a Bible study from Healing Haunted Histories (which is part of CLBSJ’s imprint at Wipf & Stock). Our comments are followed by a response from Maria De Freece Lawrence (Lenape) and Gretchen…
Bartcast 55: A River of History and Change
In November 2020 Ched gave this brief (9 min) reflection for the Graduate Theological Union’s Alumni in Conversation series, explaining concisely why BCM uses the rubric “discipleship at the intersection of seminary, sanctuary, streets and soil,” and what it means…
Bartcast 54: Ched reflects on the theology and ecology of rivers
In 2020 Ched gave this devotional for the Nomad Podcast in the UK (www.nomadpodcast.co.uk). In this devotion, Ched takes us on a journey down the Ventura river, where he lives in California, and goes on to open up the radical…
Bartcast 53: Healing Haunted Histories – Anabaptist Witness Dialogues Jan 2021
Elaine and Ched were interviewed in mid-January 2021 by Jamie Pitts, editor of the Anabaptist Witness journal, about Healing Haunted Histories. They discuss the background and motivations for this project, the evocative title, and major themes addressed in the volume.
Bartcast 52: Memorial for Murphy Davis
This Bartcast is a 20 minute section of the memorial to Murphy Davis in early November. It features Ched and Elaine’s reflection on Murphy’s vocation as a “Charon” figure, who traversed back and forth across the Great River over 25…