Friends:    I first took a retreat at Our Lady of the Redwoods Abbey in Mendocino County, CA in the late 1970s. There I met two Cistercian monks who had deep impact on me. One was Mother Myriam Dardenne (1920–2010) , the first Abbess, who offered me the liberating affirmation that my study of scripture was a form…
HARP Zoom Forum: In case you missed this announcement last week, as we begin Ordinary Time with its unbroken string of Sunday Lukan gospel readings, it’s a good time for a summer and/or fall study group or preaching series!  To help resource such, I will convene a twice-monthly zoom forum, beginning on Wed July 2,…
A Sermon at Nutana Park Mennonite Church Saskatoon, SK, Jul 28, 2024Ched Myers & Elaine Enns A man came from Baal-shalishah bringing food from the first fruits to the man of God: twenty loaves of barley and fresh ears of grain in his sack. Elisha said, “Give it to the people and let them eat.” …
Last week the wonderful Janet Wolf invited us to send a message to our friend and mentor Marion Wright Edelman for her 85th birthday on June 6th. Here’s what I wrote:  Dearest Marion:  We have so missed seeing you each summer at the Proctor Institute; the last  time was, 2019, pre-Covid! I want you to…
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.
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…
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 visit Kyiv since the Russian invasion began on Feb 24, 2022. The religious leaders visited…
Ched gave this keynote talk on the fiftieth anniversary of the Catholic Committee of Appalachia, an exemplary faith-rooted organizing collaborative. After establishing his “kindredness” with exploited mountain folk, Ched surveys the Jubilee theme in scripture. He then suggests three trajectories of Jubilee faith today:a) Return to the land for those displaced as socio-ecological re-placement and…
BCM hosted this online gathering on the MLK holiday weekend (January 17) as part of the lead in to the 2021 Bartimaeus Kinsler Institute (BKI – http://www.bcm-net.org/study/bki2021)In the spirit of the King holiday weekend, we were joined by Sarah & Jonathan Nahar, Vivien Sansour and Linda Quiquivix, who each talked about how as activists of…
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 years, teaching us about life and death. The recording ends with a beautiful song by…