by Elaine Enns and Ched Myers: list price $38.00Available now direct from Wipf & Stock in the US. In Canada, you can purchase from Common Word bookstore. In their latest book, Healing Haunted Histories: A Settler Discipleship of Decolonization, Elaine Enns and Ched Myers take on the “ghosts” of settler colonialism, Indigenous displacement, and white…
In June, 2013, Ched and Elaine interviewed Liz McAlister, a mentor and “mother of the movement” for peace and justice, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of Jonah House, the Christian peacemaking community in Baltimore, MD Liz cofounded. This podcast is in honor of her 80th birthday, and in solidarity as she is awaiting…
This 18 minute video offers Ched Myer’s brief reflections on a “theology of advocacy” through the lens of Luke 7:36-50. It was presented to a Mennonite Central Committee Saskatchewan gathering in November, 2019. It is available for free here or on the BCM YouTube channel here. ______________________________ SKU: 2019-MCCAdvocacy
Ched and Elaine’s comments to The Loft at Westwood United Methodist Church in L.A. on Sept 22, 2019, days after the Climate Strike, using Jesus’ parable of the ‘Defective manager” as a foil.Image: Jan Luyken etching of the parable, Bowyer Bible.
Ched recently spoke with Aussie friend of BCM Jarrod McKenna on his “Inverse” podcast. Ched covered the Exodus plagues narrative as a lens for viewing the current climate crisis. Jarrod’s original podcast is here: https://inverse.podiant.co/e/ched-myers-exodus-extinction-rebellion-climatestrike-37bd816d66b7c0/ Image: Joseph Mallord William Turner – The Fifth Plague of Egypt – Wikimedia Commons
by Ched Myers The Christian Century, September 3, 2019 In Luke’s post-resurrection appearances, the disciples have to reckon with the traumatic somatic. Almost 65 years ago, Mamie Till-Mobley decided to have an open casket at the funeral of her murdered son Emmett Till. Weeks before, this young mother from the south side of Chicago had…
Recorded 2/18/19 at the Bartimaeus Kinsler Institute: “Indigenous Justice and Christian Faith: Land, Law, Language.” How western missions betrayed the clear instructions of Jesus, and how a commitment to hospitality received and given can change that longstanding colonizing pattern.
Elaine Enns and Ched Myers: “When Kitsapawit Baptized Jesús in Matilija Creek.” Recorded 2/18/19 at the Bartimaeus Kinsler Institute: “Indigenous Justice and Christian Faith: Land, Law, Language.” A bible study experiment: a local recontextualization of Mark 1.
Pastor Joe Manafo at Lakeview Church in Saskatoon, SK interviews Ched on April 28, 2019. He looks at 3 of the conflict stories in Mark 12, part of that church’s series on Mark’s gospel and politics.
“Introduction to the 2019BKI Theme.” Recorded 2/18/19 at the Bartimaeus Kinsler Institute: “Indigenous Justice and Christian Faith: Land, Law, Language.”