Caretaking the Gift: A Journey of Hospice

ByElaine Enns and Ched Myers

by Elaine Enns With Ched Myers.  A chapter in Bury the Dead: Death and Dying on the Radical Christian Left, Laurel Dykstra, ed., Cascade Books, 2013, 10 pp. More about the amazing community hospice effort that surrounded Ladon Sheats and accompanied this beloved mentor on his journey to the other side. Full Article: Caretaking the Gift: A Journey…

From Capital to Community: Discipleship as Defection in Jesus’ Parable about a ‘Manager of Injustice’ (Luke 16:1-13)

ByChed Myers

by Ched Myers This essay is part of Radical Christian Voices & Practice, an academic festschrift honoring our friend Dr. Christopher Rowland, a leading historian and theologian of radical Christian movements based in England.  My essay looks at how Luke’s story of the so-called “unfaithful steward” is actually about someone who realizes he is caught in a socio-economic system…

Our God is Undocumented: Biblical Faith and Immigrant Justice

Our God is Undocumented: Biblical Faith and Immigrant Justice

ByChed Myers

By Ched Myers and Matthew Colwell: $25.00 Email BCM to PURCHASE Orbis Books, 228 pp., paperback, with index and bibliography. “The stranger has not lodged in the street; I have opened my doors to the sojourner.” (Job 31:32) The perspective of the immigrant offers fresh eyes for reading the Bible, which in turns offers a…

Sea Changes Pts I & II

ByChed Myers

by Ched Myers “Jesus’ Call to Discipleship as Resistance to Colonizing Economics” and “Re-Imaginng Exodus Liberation as an ‘Exorcism’ of Imperial Militarism” in Challenging Empire: God, Faithfulness and Resistance. Ed. by N. Ateek, C. Duaybis and M. Tobin. Jerusalem: SabeelEcumenical Liberation Theology center, pp. 107-125. Full Article: Sea Changes Pts I & II SKU: 12-4-Pb