In honor of the All Saints triduum, Bartcast #51 features Ched’s reflections on his father, who passed away almost 30 years ago. He reads from a piece originally published in the mid-90s titled “Pulpo en su Tinta”; you can find it in the Appendix to his book Our God is Undocumented.We encourage you to remember…
Mauricio and Ched got together in August 2020 for a CLBSJ Scholar-Activist Encounter and discussed their work to create capacity for movement-building through arts, documentation and scholarship, and the way this work has shaped and been shaped by their faith.Mauricio is a BCM friend and Partner, former intern and is currently an Assistant Arts Professor…
by Ched Myers Direction V49 no.1 (2020) The realities of climate chaos hit me personally and hard in December 2017 with the Thomas Fire. California’s largest wildfire to that date, scorching 80 percent of our Ventura River watershed, it was an apocalyptic unveiling, the kind shared by survivors of hurricanes the same year in Houston…
On Summer Solstice 2020 Elaine & Ched led an online liturgy for our local Farm Church. As it was also Father’s Day and Indigenous Peoples Day in Canada, we had a conversation with our friends and colleagues Harry and Germaine Lafond from the Muskeg Cree First Nation in Saskatchewan. The Lafonds talked about the importance…
Ched Myers talked with Dan Robinson of the Great Lakes Spirituality Project about Watershed Discipleship and “What do I say Yes to?” Published June 30, 2020
Recorded June 21, 2020 On the 2020 Summer Solstice Ched spoke with a Creation Theology study group at St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral in Los Angeles. He walked folks through Genesis 1-11, a narrative of beginnings that was an ancient protest against imperial exploitation of the earth and its peoples, which resonates strongly still today.
On the Thursday morning of the BKI2020, Ched looked ‘haunting’ as it relates secrecy, lies and ‘myths of innocence’ plaguing our settler histories, and compares this to Jesus’ diagnosis of, and unmasking of ‘unclean spirits’, both political (Mark 5) and personal (Mark 9). He looks further at Luke 11 (v24-26) and the twin healing stories…
On the Wednesday morning of the 2020 Bartimaeus Kinsler Institute: Unsettling Histories | Decolonizing Discipleship | hukišunuškuy, Elaine again set the scene for the day’s work by looking at the place where her ancestors came to and their complicity in the impacts on people of the not-vacant land, but a land under siege by government…
On the Tuesday morning of the 2020 Bartimaeus Kinsler Institute: Unsettling Histories | Decolonizing Discipleship | hukišunuškuy, Ched looked at 1 Kings 21 and Naboth’s nahala.
On the opening night of the 2020 Bartimaeus Kinsler Institute: Unsettling Histories | Decolonizing Discipleship | hukišunuškuy, Elaine and Ched set the scene with the presentation “The Nightmares of Sleeping Dogs”