Women Clothed with the Sun: Sophia Facing the Beast

by Ched Myers With Elaine Enns. The Bechtel Lectures, March 27, Conrad Grebel University College. Published in The Conrad Grebel Review (27:2), pp 28-44. 13 pp. This lecture means to honor the peace and justice work of women, and we would like to begin by naming just two. One is the woman who was cleaning…

Ambassadors in Chains: Ephesians 2-3 and M.L. King’s Letter from Birmingham City Jail

by Ched Myers With Elaine Enns. The Bechtel Lectures, March 26, 2009, Conrad Grebel University College. Published in The Conrad Grebel Review (27:2) Fall, pp 4-27. 21 pp. One of the central questions that faces Anabaptist identity in every generation is: “What does it mean today to be a Peace Church?” In this year’s Bechtel…

Sociopolitical Criticism: An Overview

by Ched Myers Excerpt from: Searching for Meaning: An Introduction to Interpreting the N.T., edited by Paula Gooder, Westminster/John Knox/SPCK, pp. 160-162. 3 pp . Sociopolitical criticism (also know as socioeconomic criticism or political readings) draws on the insights of Liberation criticism to explore oppression and the use of power and, unlike liberation criticism, it…

It’s the End of the World as We Know It… Resistance and Discipleship: Reflections on Exodus 1-2 and Mark 14

by Ched Myers A talk given to the Kairos Canada Gathering, June, 2009. 14 pp. I commend the Kairos planning team for choosing such a bold theme. Apocalyptic imagination is the great step-child of western culture, especially since the Age of Reason colonized our minds and hearts. Apocalyptic literature’s wild, visionary, almost shamanistic symbolism is…

Pay Attention to the Great Economy: Reflections on Luke 12:13-34, Earth Cosmology and Sabbath Economics

by Ched Myers Talk at Faith, Ecology & Economy Conference, Washington DC. 20 pp. In the Fall 2003 issue of Business Ethics a thoughtful opinion piece appeared by progressive journalist William Greider. In a preview of his book The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to a Moral Economy, Greider wrote: Most Americans, I am convinced,…

The First Temptation: Israel, Jesus and Sabbath Economics

by Ched Myers A talk given at Lenten Retreat, Knox Presbyterian, Pasadena, CA, March, 2009. 7 pp. THE CHURCH TRADITIONALLY inaugurates Lent by reflecting on the “wilderness temptations” of Jesus. This story is articulated in Mt 4:1-11 and Lk 4:1-13 (probably Q tradition). In preparation for his mission, Jesus follows a mysterious yet compelling calling…

If a Bible Story Could Stop a Culture War: A Reflection on John 8, Proposition 8, and the Politics of Affirmation

by Ched Myers A sermon given at St. Andrew’s College, Saskatoon, in March 2004. 6 pp. I suppose I could keep my sermon on this occasion short and to the point. As in: Congratulations. It’s about time. Now let’s get on with the work of living into what the moniker of “Affirming Ministry” really means…

Ambassadors of Reconciliation, Vol. II: Diverse Christian Practices of Restorative Justice and Peacemaking

Ambassadors of Reconciliation, Vol. II: Diverse Christian Practices of Restorative Justice and Peacemaking

by Elaine Enns and Ched Myers: $21.00 (incl US shipping) Both volumes can be purchased for $33.00 (incl US shipping) Email us to PURCHASE This volume offers three social-analytic models and nine profiles of contemporary practitioners of restorative justice and peacemaking. Paper, 190 pp, Orbis Books.