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…
Foreword to James W. Douglass, The Nonviolent Cross
By Ched Myers Wipf & Stock (reprint of 1968 edition). 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 his famous Catonsville Nine anti-war protest in 1968. “And because we want the peace with half…
The All Saints Triduum: Remembering as a Household Practice
By Ched Myers Published in Bartimaeus Cooperative Ministries E-News. 4pp. Elaine and I have experienced a lot of loss over the last two years. The death of loved ones leaves a hole in our hearts and souls, one that can be salved only with memory. We North Americans, however, are not very competent at the…
Re-engaging Religious Teaching on Consumption: Ched Myers and Sabbath Economics
By Gary Gardner, Worldwatch, pp 26-30. 5 pp. In his book God’s Politics,evangelical minister Jim Wallis describes an episode from his seminary days when a fellow student took scissors and snipped out of an old Bible every verse that focused on poverty and wealth.The remaining text was tattered and fragile,reports Wallis;these economic themes occur in…
All the Words of the Scroll: A Eulogy for Daniel Berrigan
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…
Seek First the Kingdom: The Life and Death of Ladon Sheats
By Ched Myers Catholic Agitator. 7 pp. On Good Friday 2002, while in Lubbock, TX caretaking his 93 year old father, our dear friend Ladon Sheats discovered that he had become strangely jaundiced. On April 15th, after exploratory surgery, he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. I immediately left the Word and World School that was…
The Gift Must Always Move: An Interview with Ched Myers on Sabbath Economics
Inward/Outward, Winter, pp 1ff. 5 pp. KM: Ched, what do you mean when you say “Sabbath Economics?” Aren’t those two words contradictory? Isn’t “Sabbath” about letting go and receiving and “economics” about attaining and possessing? How do they fit together? CM: You are certainly correct in your impression that these two terms, when viewed from…
Unleashing the Vulnerable Word: Reflections on Ched Myers as a Provocateur for a Healing Church
By Simon Barrow. British Journal of Theological Education (12:2) pp 95ff. 13 pp. Ched Myers is not a well-known figure in European church or academic circles. He is a forty-something fifth-generation Californian white male. Los Angeles, a city ‘oppressed by the hucksters of over-development and quick profit’ (his words) is the place he calls home….
Are they Bombing Disneyland? Reflections on 9/11
By Ched Myers Catholic New Times (Toronto), p. 9. 2 pp. Article link – this will take you to this free article on the Shalom Center website (in a new window). A friend of mine who teaches in the local public school reported that this was the first question asked her by third graders the morning…